Rivers Varsity Not Insensitive To Students’ Plight, Says Vice Chancellor

Vice chancellor of Rivers State University, Professor Isaac Zeb-Obipi has said the absorption of the instauration is not insensitive to the plight of students who are lamenting the caller summation successful the outgo of obtaining convocation gowns and different associated fees, against the inheritance of the economical concern successful the country.

He is however, appealing for the knowing of each stakeholders, including students and parents/guardians, arguing that the assemblage is besides facing challenges that necessitate tenable superior outlay and has to look inwards to root funds.

Zeb-Obipi, who spoke during a media chat astatine the field of the assemblage successful Port Harcourt, stressed that the absorption of the instauration had to excavation heavy to harness its sources of backing to alteration it transportation retired a palmy convocation ceremonial slated for December this year.

“Our gross is not capable to instrumentality attraction of our challenges, the absorption thought it omniscient to harness our sources of revenue, and 1 of the sources of our gross is our convocation. We request wealth for a batch of things but we don’t person capable money, our convocation is successful December and that is wherefore we are telling the graduands aboriginal enough.” helium said.

He disclosed that earlier arriving astatine the assorted fees for the convocation ceremony, meetings were held with the Student Union Government (SUG), postgraduate students and National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to explicate the presumption of the instauration and question their understanding.

Zeb-Obipi said: “We engaged the pupil national government, we engaged the postgraduate students, we engaged NANS and got inputs from the students’ leadership. The hardship the students are facing, the assemblage is besides facing it.

We person respective bills to pay, and we took the determination successful bully faith.

“Our sister universities are charging more, we were charging 40,500, we tin not proceed that way, we person programmes that request to spell done accreditation, our hostels request to beryllium fixed, we request books successful the library, we request books and instrumentality successful the laboratories, we request capable classrooms, but we don’t person capable money.”

He explained further that owed to the fig of those scheduled to be the convocation, further facilities would beryllium needed to accommodate them, successful summation to the accumulation of yearbook, lapels, scarfs, scrolls and certificates with information imprints.

Zeb-Obipi disclosed that the instauration has benefited severally from assorted interventions but was speedy to adhd that determination are different sectors competing for the attraction of government, hence the request to look inwards.

“The Rivers State authorities provides salaries; it intervenes and got respective facilities built, among others but the authorities has different responsibilities that are demanding, we person to present look astatine however we tin harness resources disposable to us,” the vice chancellor said.

He explained that the assemblage was making innovations to amended the interface betwixt the instauration and parents/guardians, particularly arsenic regards going online to cheque however their wards are performing successful school.

Zeb-Obipi said: “We are making innovations. We are making definite that students are capable to get their exam results earlier the commencement of different session.

“Parents and guardians tin spell online, entree our portal to cheque what’s happening to their children successful school, students are graduating erstwhile they are meant to graduate, we person maintained backmost to backmost world session, among others.”