Onyia addressing the students during orientation excercise at Enugu study centre,Enugu State
The聽Director,聽Enugu Study Centre,聽Prof. Alexander Uche Onyia, has聽tasked fresh聽students聽of the university to strive for academic excellence achieved only through sheer dedication and sacrifices of certain comforts.
He disclosed this while speaking聽at聽the orientation programme organised by the聽centre.
“It is important to seek information from the right source and the centre has a well-trained desk officers for聽 all the聽 faculties where students can access genuine and authentic information. There is no student or coursemate聽 who is your desk officer or minister of information, even as second – hand information is very dangerous,”聽Onyia said.
While explaining the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode of operation of the institution where teaching and learning are online, Onyia also advised students to improve on their computer skills, even as聽 their exams would be electronically-based.
Cross section students and staff during orientation programme at the centre
The director cautioned on聽 the dangers of lackadaisical attitude to studies聽and stated the fact that students聽matriculated on the same day do not imply聽that all would graduate at the same time, rather it depends on individual’s degree of hard work and seriousness.
He challenged the students to be diligent and ensure in the full participation of online facilitations.
Onyia emphasised the importance of living聽 above board and counselled them to avoid acts capable of tarnishing their own image, families聽 and the university.
He commended the institution’s management for ensuring聽a聽soft-beginning聽 of聽 students through provision of course materials and advised them to download others that were not supplied.