‘LG staff school now awards HND’

By Femi Atolagbe
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The Management of the Ondo State Local Government Staff Training School, Itaogbolu has charged its staff members on the need to enroll in the Training School in order to improve themselves academically for a better future career.

 The Training School’s Director of Studies, Mr Solomon Ariyeloye stated this at Igbara-oke, headquaters of Ifedore Local Government, where he concluded the three weeks sensitisation tour of the 18 Local Governments in the state.

 He said ,”it’s pertinent to inform the workers about the transformation going on in the Staff Training  School, the school is now a departure from the past.”

Ariyeloye revealed that the certificate offered before only limits them to promotion in the local government.

He revealed further that the School now awards  Diploma and  Higher Diploma in conjunction with Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo through the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the institution early this year.

The Director added that with the understanding between the Staff Training School and RUGIPO, the Higher  Diploma graduate of the Training School will only  proceeded to RUGIPO to spend nine months to be awarded Higher National Diploma HND.

 According to him, the programmes run in the school include the following, Improve Course, Advance Certificate Course,  Diploma Course and Higher Diploma course.

The highlight of the sensitisation tour was the courtesy visit to the palace of Olowa of Igbara-Oke, Oba Francis Adefarakanmi  Agbede.