By Amaechi Agbo

 In its pragmatic desire to march theory with practical knowledge in advancing experiential learning, the Vice-Chancellor, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Prof Aloysius-Michaels Okolie will on Thursday commission the university’s Incubation Hub.

The VC who disclosed this to ESUT Monitor on Wednesday, said unveiling of the  Incubation Hub marks a mileage in the management’s derive to give the students, irrespective of courses of choice, practical knowledge that will not only make them self-reliant but employable.

Prof Okolie noted that having acquired the building from Afrihub few years ago, the Incubation Hub has been equipped with the state-of-the-art equipment to offer students hands-on training and experiential learning.  

“Tomorrow we shall be commissioning ESUT Incubation Hub. Formerly Afrihub, the idea of commissioning it is to ensure certification of our students so that before you get to your 3rd year, you are already largely independent financially because of the knowledge you have acquired. In you 3^rd year, the industry should be looking for you not you looking for them.

“We want to encourage hands-on and experiential learning model in our university and take the lead. Part of the things we want to take-off in the 2025/2026 is to collaborate with industries so that they will be coming to the University from time to time, to engage with the students on practicals. We want to bring the town and the gown together and. It

“From next session, students from year one will be divided into project research groups and given topics to start working on from day one. So that by the time they are leaving the university, they would have added value. We don’t want the same garbage in, garbage out in our system, we want a change. This place is Enugu State University of Science and Technology, we want to activate the technological virtues we have,” he said.