The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) in collaboration with six other Nigerian universities have developed a fraud-detecting device to check academic fraud.
The anti-plagiarism software is designed in collaboration with other universities which include Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin; Covenant University, Ota; Delta State University Abraka, Benue State University Makurdi, University of Jos and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife.
The school in it Bulletin issued on Monday said the software programme development was at the instance of the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU).
It said the AVCNU had mandated its Information and Communication Technology Sub-committee, chair, and the Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali, to assemble IT team from Nigerian universities to develop the home-grown anti-plagiarism software with the local repository.
The Director, Computer Services and Information Technology, Directorate of the University of Ilorin, Professor Mohammed Ahmed, said the software has reached 80 per cent stage of completion.
He explained that the software has both local and global repository with features such as peer review, document comparison, and grammar checker.
He said, “Other features are language support and title validation, with the name EAGLE SCAN being proposed for the programme.”
Ahmed said when operational, the anti-plagiarism application, would be made available to all Nigerian universities.
He also noted that plagiarism is a criminal offence and this has given the AVCNU concern, adding that the development of the programme is in the effort to ensure quality control towards quality assurance in the Nigeria education system.
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University Of Ibadan Students Release First Poetry Anthology
A group of students from Nigeria’s Premier Varsity, University of Ibadan (UI), have launched a platform called UitesCreate.
The platform seeks to promote the school’s students and alumni who are exploring and excelling at the spheres of Art, Technology, Business and so on.
The first project from UitesCreate would be unveiled virtually Today (Saturday), 13th August 2016, and it is tagged “The UitesWrite Anthology.”
It is a collection of over 200 poems which were selected from about 400 submissions from poets in the university student and alumni community.
The project, which started around September 2015, has materialised into a digital book, which would be available for free download on UitesCreate.org as from Saturday.
Dr. Olayinka Egbokhare, the Author of Dazzling Mirage which was adapted into a blockbuster movie by Tunde Kelani, wrote the foreword of the book.
She wrote: ”The journey took me like in a swirl through curves and crevices, and streets broad and narrow and left me richer than when the journey began.
“It is refreshing to see intending Pharmacists, Doctors, Engineers and other scientists become word -smiths who succeeded in breathing fresh air into this favourite pastime of many sages.”
The UitesCreate platform was founded by Dolapo Amusat, a final-year
student of Electrical Engineering, and Habeeb Kolade, a graduate of
Mechanical Engineering and the team consists of Ibrahim Oredola (Law),
Moyosore Orimoloye (Pharmacy), Darafunmi Olanrewaju (Law), Kelechi
Ogueji (Industrial Engineering), Kunle Adebajo (Law) and Rasaq Malik
Gbolahan (English).
The founders believe that Unibadan students have what it takes to positively affect the immediate society and the world at large with incremental steps, and this is encompassed in their apt catchphrase: What starts here changes the world. They have several other exciting projects lined up on UitesCreate.
Visit UitesCreate.org, to download the UitesWrite Anthology and subscribe to be part of history as it is being made.
The platform seeks to promote the school’s students and alumni who are exploring and excelling at the spheres of Art, Technology, Business and so on.
The first project from UitesCreate would be unveiled virtually Today (Saturday), 13th August 2016, and it is tagged “The UitesWrite Anthology.”
It is a collection of over 200 poems which were selected from about 400 submissions from poets in the university student and alumni community.
The project, which started around September 2015, has materialised into a digital book, which would be available for free download on UitesCreate.org as from Saturday.
Dr. Olayinka Egbokhare, the Author of Dazzling Mirage which was adapted into a blockbuster movie by Tunde Kelani, wrote the foreword of the book.
She wrote: ”The journey took me like in a swirl through curves and crevices, and streets broad and narrow and left me richer than when the journey began.
“It is refreshing to see intending Pharmacists, Doctors, Engineers and other scientists become word -smiths who succeeded in breathing fresh air into this favourite pastime of many sages.”
The founders believe that Unibadan students have what it takes to positively affect the immediate society and the world at large with incremental steps, and this is encompassed in their apt catchphrase: What starts here changes the world. They have several other exciting projects lined up on UitesCreate.
Visit UitesCreate.org, to download the UitesWrite Anthology and subscribe to be part of history as it is being made.
ASUU Okays Admission Screening In Varsities
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday disclosed that the union has agreed and satisfied with the ongoing admission screening process in some universities across the country.
The National President of ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, made this known while speaking with the News Agency in Lagos.
He said, ”I want to say that so far, we are satisfied with the screening procedure. We cannot be in all the institutions at a time, but reports reaching us and from our observations, the universities are on the right track.
“You see, no dictation from outside the universities can stop the institutions’ from doing this screening. It is part of the procedures spelt out by the Senate of the various universities for admission of candidates.
“Government can only provide guidelines such as quota for the academically less-advantaged areas, but the issue of merit is strictly for the universities to determine.’’
Ogunyemi, however, urged the universities not to lose focus in ensuring that only qualified candidates were admitted into the respective programmes in the institutions. Adding that the screening will raise the quality of undergraduates which will transform to quality graduates.Thanks for reading.
