The Coordinator, AIU, Mr. Theo Theodorus, who disclosed this in an interview, said the institution was modelled after universities in Europe.
The AIU, which began academic activities
last week with 510 students, is an initiative of the Bayelsa State
Government and is approved by the National Universities Commission in
July 2016.
The university will be run as a
Public-Private Partnership venture. The state government will only
provide the enabling environment, while the funding will come from the
private sector.
Theodorus said, ‘’The institution will
export nurses to different parts of the world, as obtainable in Europe,
because nursing is one of our priorities. If universities in Europe can
do it, why can’t we do it?
“A plan for the establishment of a
medical school and farming, as well as environmental sciences, is one of
our priorities; hence nursing is one of our priority areas. We really
want to be in a situation where we can export nurses.’’
The coordinator said that the first
phase of the university, the School of Foundation Studies, has the
objective of preparing students up to100 level.
According to him, the school is divided
into two parts: the arts and sciences. For the arts, he stressed, the
institution offered courses such as Business, Law and Management. And
for sciences, AIU has farming and nursing among others.
Theodorus said that out of the 510
students, 400 were given tuition waivers by the Bayelsa State Government
and 50 from the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, while 60 were drawn from
the six communities hosting the school.
According to the coordinator, the
objective of the foundation studies is to groom and prepare both arts
and science students for the commencement of the 100 level in October.
Reference: Punch
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