VC advises varsities against indiscriminate award of first-class degree

The Vice-Chancellor, Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago Iwoye, Prof. Ganiyu Olatunde, has advised universities in the country against the indiscriminate award of first-class degrees to their students.

He said this at Ago Iwoye while briefing the press on activities that has been lined up for the 30th convocation ceremony of the institution. In his statement a situation where some universities would have a significant number of their graduating students bagging a first class degree has become worrisome especially when it is undeserved, this is just as he clarified that students deserving of such grades should not be denied.

In his words “A situation where you have a university graduating a few hundreds of students and among them, over one hundred bag first-class degrees leaves room for probing questions. No one is saying that students who deserve first-class degrees should not be given as Hard work, dedication and commitment should be rewarded accordingly but graduates should be able to defend the certificates and degrees held by them.”
According to him the manner some universities go about placing students in that category should be checked for instance if we are graduating 6,257 and only 55 are in the first-class category, we are very sure of our products and they can defend whatever certificate and degree they possess.”