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Ondo State University of Medical Science Begins This Year- Forms To be out

Now The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, said this on Monday in an interview with newsmen in Akure, the state capital. Adeyanju said arrangements had been concluded for the beginning of academic activities in the specialised institution. 
The Ondo State University of Medical Science will commence academic activities in October, 2015, starting with the admission of Direct Entry students while students will be admitted into 100 level through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2016. He explained that the government had provided needed equipment for the school, for the use of the students while the Medical Village in Ondo, which comprised different specialised hospitals, would be specifically used as the students’ teaching hospital. The commissioner added, “We are adequately ready for the academic business in the Ondo State University of Medical Science. The admitted Direct Entry students will automatically start from 200 Level. The students will start attending classes in October while the students to 100 level will be admitted through UTME next year. “The equipment are ready, the administrative staff are already on the ground and have started working on the smooth take-off. I am very sure there will not be any problem as far as the take-off of the school is concerned .” Meanwhile, the state government has said it spends N2bn annually as subvention on the four higher institutions of learning in the state as it spends N500m on each of the institutions. The four higher institutions are the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Ondo State University of Medical Science, Ondo and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo. The state Commissioner for Education, Mr. Jide Adejuyigbe, stated this in his office in Akure, while playing host to his Ebonyi State counterpart, Prof. John Eke, who led the team of officials of the Ministry of Education on a courtesy visit. Adejuyigbe said the state government was committed to ensure the state offered the best qualitative education at all levels to the students, explaining that the tertiary institutions in the state charged the lowest school fees compare to others in the country. He added, “We spent N500m on each of our tertiary institutions annually and the schools support the subvention with the internally generated revenue so as to give out the best to our students. “We also encourage our lecturers to go further in their post-graduate courses and we have been getting results of all these encouragements. For instance, AAUA is the best state university in Nigeria as I am talking to you . RUGiPO is the best state polytechnic in Nigeria and third in Africa.” Ebonyi State Commissioner for Education, Prof. John Eke, said he and his team came to understudy Ondo State’s education sector, a visit he believed would assist the new administration in his state. Eke, who described Ondo State as a benchmark of governance in Nigeria, said that what had learnt in Ondo would be put into use in Ebonyi. He commended the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, for the landmark achievements he had recorded in the education sector.