MAPOLY Management inaugurates 280-Seater ICT Lab Funded By TETFUND

The Ogun State Commissioner for Education on Friday inaugurated 280-seater capacity Information Communication Technology (ICT) laboratory project at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, funded by
Technical Education Fund (Tetfund).

The Commissioner, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu while commissioning the project, commended the institution for moving in tandem with the vision of Gov. Dapo Abiodun, stressing that technology remained important and paramount to the development of the education sector.

The commissioner stated that the governor had also mandated the ministry of education to ensure that it introduced technology at primary and secondary schools.

His phrases: ” I am in reality inspired with this facility due to the fact the polytechnic control seems to be transferring in tandem with the vision
of the governor.

"Looking at what's happening now all around the world with the pandemic that is troubling each person we've seen that teaching and studying can't be achieved on the head to head stage by myself.

“These days you have to combination the face to face teaching with virtual coaching and actually, there should be greater of digital teaching and to reap virtual coaching technology is wanted.

“What MAPOLY has accomplished with this provision of the ICT facility will useful resource teaching and getting to know, it's going to additionally assist them with Computer Based Test
(CBT) exam.

"It can even help for UTME and Post UTME exam, all the general publications that requires CBT, this is huge training could be finished with this type of facility.

“We are going to have aid centres throughout the state with 36 flagship faculties each secondary and number one colleges , those may be the pilot in which we begin from, ” he said.

Arigbabu assured that the present management would preserve to accord the training region necessary guide, saying that it remained the bedrock of any developed country.

The Acting Rector of the polytechnic, Dr. Adeoye Odedeji, stated the new ICT laboratory might enhance the learning manner of the group,
saying that E- learning had come to live in modern-day education.

He reaffirmed that the task would no longer most effective assist the students of the group, but would be a bonus to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and other educational functions.

Odedeji revealed that Tetfund provided the budget for the procurement of the facilities at the centre at the same time as the country government renovated the centre.

The Rector consequently applauded the large strides of the authorities towards making sure that training take its precedence, promising that the
institution might preserve to provide worthy ambassadors for the country.