College empowers 17 graduate fellows

Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo State, has absorbed the 17 beneficiaries of its Fellowship programme into the institution’s workforce.

The graduate fellowship programme was introduced in 2017, where the institution’s most brilliant graduates are retained in the College under the Teaching Assistantship Scheme.

The scheme provides for the engagement of the best graduating student in each department with a minimum of 4.00 CGPA for a period of two years. The College’s Provost, Dr. Samuel Akintunde, explained that the scheme is one of the programmes initiated as a way of discouraging students from engaging in vices and challenge them to aim for academic excellence.

The teaching fellowship programme though not a full employment, however, beneficiaries receive allowances that could help them start their post-graduate degree programme and also have experience in teaching as assistant lecturer for the two years the programme would last.

Also participation in the scheme does not translate to automatic employment for the beneficiary, but the first set beneficiaries were lucky as they have just been absorbed into the workforce to fill existing vacancies in the college.

Adeyemi College became a degree awarding institution, including post-graduate diploma in Education since about 1982.