Excellence in Software Engineering: World Bank Supports OAU with $7 Million, Gets $2.5 Million from Carnegie.
In line with its tradition of always recording higher academic attainments among other Nigerian Universities, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has, again, achieved yet another ground-breaking, unbelievable feat by emerging as a Centre of Excellence in the area of Software Engineering.
Apparently impressed by this unimaginable breakthrough in the ivory tower, the World Bank has graciously supported the project by giving the University the sum of Seven Million US Dollars ($7 million).
A release by the Public Relations Officer of the Institution, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, stated that the Naira equivalent will be disbursed to the University in tranches, adding that subsequent ones will be released after a successful utilization of the first tranche based on the World Bank guidelines towards the achievement of the Project Development Objective (PDO) which will be determined after monitoring and evaluation.
On this project, Obafemi Awolowo University is subject to partnership with other Post-Basic Educational Institutions both nationally and internationally and with private sector.
In the same vein, the Carnegie Corporation of the United States of America has given the sum of $2.5 million as grant to OAU, Ile-Ife.
The grant, which is the third consecutive one, will enable the University to fund a lot training programmes for its members of staff within and outside the country for optimum academic and administrative development.
It will also enhance the performance of the Advancement office in the area of getting support via the raising of funds and courting of friends for the overall development of the University.
Parts of the grant will also be used for Linkages programmes with other top-rated Universities in the world for sponsored research, while indigent female students will benefit through the award of scholarship by the University’s Centre for Gender Studies.
Abiodun Olarewaju
Public Relations Officer
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