Onyia addressing the students during orientation excercise at Enugu study centre,Enugu State
The Director, Enugu Study Centre, Prof. Alexander Uche Onyia, has tasked fresh students of the university to strive for academic excellence achieved only through sheer dedication and sacrifices of certain comforts.
He disclosed this while speaking at the orientation programme organised by the centre.
“It is important to seek information from the right source and the centre has a well-trained desk officers for all the faculties where students can access genuine and authentic information. There is no student or coursemate who is your desk officer or minister of information, even as second – hand information is very dangerous,” 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 their exams would be electronically-based.
Cross section students and staff during orientation programme at the centre
The director cautioned on the dangers of lackadaisical attitude to studies and stated the fact that students matriculated on the same day do not imply 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 above board and counselled them to avoid acts capable of tarnishing their own image, families and the university.
He commended the institution’s management for ensuring a soft-beginning of students through provision of course materials and advised them to download others that were not supplied.
