YABATECH Rector Urges Staff to Pursue Research Grants Through Effective Proposal Writing
The Management of Yaba College of Technology, the Guest Speaker, Professor Olukayode Akinyemi of Universityof Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB)(m) and workshop participants at the Centre for Research Support and Grants Management on Research Grant Writing Proposal
Dr. Engr. Ibraheem Adedotun Abdul, rector of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), has urged the college’s teaching and non-teaching personnel to intensify their pursuit of writing research grant proposals in order to explore its variety of potential for both the organisation and the employees.
During the opening ceremony of the Workshop on Grants Proposal Writing, which was organised by the Centre for Research Support & Grants Management (CRSGM), Dr. Abdul expressed his admiration for the significant turnout of attendees, which indicates that the College has adopted new thinking.
He made hints that the organisation was moving in a path where the personnel would have a fresh outlook on their work, helping them to perform at the anticipated level.
Researches, he said, would change their orientation and rebuild them to jettison frivolities and courses that would make them to be chasing pecuniary ventures as their minds are busy with research grants and research products.
“They will become disinterested from what comes in through the sales of handouts or textbooks, and they will have much more to gain when they have research-oriented minds”; said the Rector.
“Looking at the needs of your immediate environment, and making research into those needs, it can lead you into a research grant that you don’t even expect. We should not stick or limit ourselves into one area of research by claiming to have a specialization, this is one of the things that is killing our researchers, not collaborating with others, not applying your basic knowledge to the society, but to excel in research we should have a broader mind”; Abdul added.
The guest Lecturer, Professor Olukayode Akinyemi from University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAB) showered encomium on Rector for his wealth of knowledge in research, and stated that YABATECH is in good hands, and in no distant future the institution will achieve greater height through research driven Rector.
Prof. Akinyemi disclosed that a vibrant researcher can never be poor, and enjoined staff of the institution to support the vision of the Rector in order to move the College forward and be out of the hood of poverty.
In her welcome address, the Acting Director CRGSM, Dr. Funmilayo Doherty noted that the goal of the Centre is to establish a centralized and robust support system that enhances research capabilities, facilitates successful grant acquisition management, and promotes a culture of research excellence within the College.
The workshop, she said, has four sessions, the first two sessions were presentations titled “Rethinking Research for Rapid Institutional Development, Techniques for Writing Grant-Winning proposals, while the last two sessions were Group Work and Presentations and Reconstructions.
