By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
Osun State University has commenced its 12th and 13th convocation ceremony for the award of first degree and postgraduate, which kicked off on Friday, September 22.
The ceremony will come to an end on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
The convocation that is holding physically and virtually commenced on Friday with a press conference at the university main campus in Osogbo, Osun State.
Addressing newsmen at the conference, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Odunayo Clement Adebooye, said a total of 4,210 degrees and Diplomas will be awarded at the event.
The degrees, according to the Vice Chancellor, include First Degrees, 3,959; Postgraduate Diploma, 9; Master Degrees, 229; Doctoral Degrees, 13.
According to Prof Adebooye, “The breakdown of the various degrees and diploma in terms of class of degrees is as follows:
“First-Class: 89; Second Class (Upper Division): 1,326; Second Class (Lower Division): 1,818; Third Class: 470; Pass: 5.”
The Vice-Chancellor added, “this year, we shall be combining our 12th and 13th series of the ceremony. The reason for this is our decision to stop the tradition of deferring graduation ceremonies till the following year and academic session.
“We changed this tradition because technology has made both the conduct of examination and assessment of students easier, thus leading to faster actions on computation of examination grades and computation of final results. Even with high-tech, if our staff fail to cooperate and buy into our vision, the plan will not work.
“Therefore, I commend my colleagues for believing in the Management and for working hard to make this dream a reality. ‘It often seems impossible until it is done’, said Nelson Mandela. By the grace of God, we have broken the jinx, henceforth, we shall be graduating our students every September that follows their final examinations in July of the same year.
“For this year, therefore, we are graduating our final year students for the 2021/2022 academic session that ended in July, 2021 and our final year students for 2022/2023 academic session just completed in July 2023. We have mapped out a cluster of activities for the combined ceremonies to span through 22nd to 28th September, 2023″.
The programmes of the convocation which started on Friday, 22nd September, 2023 with an opening of Convocation and Press Conference at the Council Chamber, Main Campus, Osogbo at 10:00 a.m followed with an Induction of Education Graduates by the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria, at the Multipurpose Hall of the Main Campus and Special Jumat Service, at the University Mosque, Main Campus as well as Convocation Play titled: Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels, authored by Femi Osofisan, at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus continue on Saturday, 23rd September, 2023 when the Vice-Chancellor would be featuring live on “Rave Gang” at Rave FM, Osogbo at 8:00 a.m.
• Sunday, 24th September, 2023: Vice-Chancellor features live on “Eroya” at OSBC, Ile Awiye, Oke Baale, Osogbo at 6:30 a.m.
• Sunday, 24th September, 2023: Special Thanksgiving Service at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo at 9:00 a.m.
• Monday, 2Sth September, 2023: Candido Da Rocha Annual Lecture at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo at 10:00 a.m.
• Monday, 25th September, 2023: Induction of Engineering Graduates into NSE at the Olagunsoye Oyinlola Auditorium, Main Campus, Osogbo by 2:00 p.m. and Induction of Building Technology Graduates into NIoB at the Multipurpose Hall, Main Campus, Osogbo at 3:00 p.m just to mention a few.
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