Convenience, accommodation and comfort are necessary tools that aid students ability to learn fast at the institutions of higher learning, which are usually the answer given to many WHYs as to the glaring fact that scholars that got their education outside the shores of the country perform better than their counterparts within Nigeria. Where there is no conducive or expansive environment for learning, students are bound to suffer.
www.otowngist.com last week visited the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo State; it was an abysmal display or worse still an eyesore at its eloquence, that students were struggling for lecture halls. At the EFT hall, students were fighting themselves in a survival of the fittest contest as to who will make use of the lecture halls before the other.
It was equally appalling that students at such higher institution of a federal status will be jumping out of the classroom windows to avoid suffocation as the rush to get in gets hotter, even the traffic jam at Douglas road Owerri will not be used as comparism to the scene awaiting students outside create. Infact, Www.otowngist.com was left to wonder if actually those inside were concentrating on the on-going lectures as the noise those outside manufactured by minutes can even make the deaf to hear.
In conclusion, www.otowngist.com is urging the school authority to embrace pragmatic measures to curb the frustration students go through while seeking for a place of study. The government and institution authorities ought to take into consideration student population in the process of providing lecture halls.
Sources at the campus complain that the Polytechnic authorities are more interested in collecting bribes in exchange for admission than addressing the problem of Hostel and lecture halls. Yet they build edifices as offices for the Rector, Registrar, Bursar etc.
