The Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for exchange of ideas and skills. The partnership, which was facilitated by E2DMC, an education and electronic data marketing company, would see both institutions having exchange programmes. The minister of state for Trade and Development, Ireland, Joe Costello T.D. said both institutes will work together in a joint enterprise to build capacity among students of
institutions. “We signed agreement between Yaba College and the Waterford Institute, Ireland and the idea is that both colleges will work together in relations to education and students. We are very strong with software in Ireland and we are at the cutting edge of technology as well. So, we are anxious to provide solutions in relation to education that is appropriate to Nigeria, whether vocational or technological back up for Yaba College.” The Deputy Rector, Academics, Yaba College of Technology, Mr. Innocent Akhuemonkhan signed on behalf of his institution. Akhuemonkhan said, with the agreement, the institute has broken boundaries with its graduates having opportunities of doing top up programmes for BSc and Masters degrees. He also believed that with the partnership, graduates of Yaba College would be better equipped. The CEO, E2DMC, Mr. Ladipo Oke, whose company facilitated the partnership, said the agreement between Waterford and Yaba College is not the first being facilitated by his company. “Part of our core area is to see how we can get the best of international opportunities to be accessed by institutions in Nigeria. We have done one before; we have done Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike and now Yaba College. “And we are principally facilitating access to technology, content and resources to further improve the quality of education in our institutions. Yaba College and Watford collaborating is strategic in our business model in seeing relationship between institutions that are doing very well. And it is just a way of benchmarking best practices,” Oke said.
institutions. “We signed agreement between Yaba College and the Waterford Institute, Ireland and the idea is that both colleges will work together in relations to education and students. We are very strong with software in Ireland and we are at the cutting edge of technology as well. So, we are anxious to provide solutions in relation to education that is appropriate to Nigeria, whether vocational or technological back up for Yaba College.” The Deputy Rector, Academics, Yaba College of Technology, Mr. Innocent Akhuemonkhan signed on behalf of his institution. Akhuemonkhan said, with the agreement, the institute has broken boundaries with its graduates having opportunities of doing top up programmes for BSc and Masters degrees. He also believed that with the partnership, graduates of Yaba College would be better equipped. The CEO, E2DMC, Mr. Ladipo Oke, whose company facilitated the partnership, said the agreement between Waterford and Yaba College is not the first being facilitated by his company. “Part of our core area is to see how we can get the best of international opportunities to be accessed by institutions in Nigeria. We have done one before; we have done Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike and now Yaba College. “And we are principally facilitating access to technology, content and resources to further improve the quality of education in our institutions. Yaba College and Watford collaborating is strategic in our business model in seeing relationship between institutions that are doing very well. And it is just a way of benchmarking best practices,” Oke said.
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