A high delegation of education experts from a United Kingdom registered International Non-profit Making Organization, “PROFESSORS WITHOUT BORDERS”, has begun a training workshop for members of staff and students covering the various Faculties and Departments in Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.
The Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), organized the training workshop to equip participants with skills and knowledge needed for the attainment of excellence in their various careers.
The Chief Programme Officer of the Organization, Professor Rachel Warnick, in her opening speech, remarked that the NGO is a voluntary organisation that provides supplementary educational opportunities and professional advice for individuals across the world with the aim of improving access to quality education in order to equip beneficiaries with the skills and professional expertise they need to succeed in their chosen careers. She opined that no institution could offer sufficient knowledge that is required for success in the classrooms alone.
The Chief Programme Officer informed the guests at the opening ceremony held at the Faculty of the Social Sciences new lecture theatre of the university, that PROWIBO held its last training in Nigeria at the University of Lagos. She added that the choice of EKSU would not have been this early without the intervention of Dr Titus Ayodele who is a prominent member of the organization and also an alumnus of Ekiti State University Ado-Ekiti.
Professor Warnick prepared the minds of the participants not to expect what obtains in a usual classroom lectures, but should be ready for activities, learning, knowledge sharing, skills exchange and interactions between and among the facilitators and the participants.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Edward Olanipekun, represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development), Professor Raphael Ayan Adeleke who declared the programme open, welcomed participants, especially the resource persons who came from different continents of the world to the important workshop aimed at bridging global educational gaps by facilitating exchange cultural understanding among teachers and students of diverse ethno religious background across the globe.
Professor Olanipekun made a special request to the facilitators to make the training as comprehensive as possible. He, therefore, charged the participants to consider themselves lucky and make the best use of the opportunity to improve their knowledge and skills.
The Director, Directorate of Advancement and Linkages , Professor Olu Olatunji who is the host of the programme, posited that the training workshop was organized to address one of the major philosophies of education which is to unite people of different race, colour, religious and ethnic backgrounds together for the the global objective of providing access to education for all to be achieved.
Resource persons at the Programme included Carolina Pavese, Neljan Dimashi, Justyna Slovinska, Tom Bussen, among others.
