We’ll ensure Edo College of Nursing Sciences gains international recognition – provost
The Provost, Edo State College of Nursing Sciences, Prof. Pat Ukaigwe, has expressed the institution’s readiness to collaborate with foreign Institutions to gain more recognition and credibility.
Ukaigwe gave the assurance on Monday in Benin when she led the institution’s management team on a courtesy visit to the state Gov. Godwin Obaseki at the Edo Government House, Benin.
She commended the administration of Obaseki for believing in the nursing profession and building a world-class nursing school.
She said that the management of the institution would work relentlessly to ensure that the school would meet international standards.
“We are working to collaborate with the university abroad where I came from.
“They supported me during my collaboration in Ghana and in Liberia.
“I will collaborate with them, and the proposal is to co-share the programme, and the certificate will read Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey.
“We will also seek the permission of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria to allow the institution to be a continuing education provider.
“This will enable the institution to run multiple programmes including those that will help nurses to renew their licences,” she said.
The professor said that efforts would be made to make the school a centre for some international examinations.
“The institution has zero-tolerance for indiscipline.
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“Value system will be the focal point for the institution working to maintain International standards.
“We will prosecute any person found wanting or stealing the institution’s property.
“To succeed, we have to run the school as a business, conform to the regulations of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria and work to secure the premises and all the equipment in the school,” she said.
Responding, Obaseki granted approval for international collaboration for the institution.
He praised the management of the school for the efforts so far made in the school.
Obaseki charged the school’s management to ensure that it would be a reference point. (NAN)
