EKSU Holds Annual Registry Workshop, Trains Staff on Modern Day Techniques of Record Keeping

The Registry has been described as the engine room and heart beat of any academic institution and governing bodies with effieciency rooted in smooth operations and modern techniques.

This was the opinion of Dr. Omojola Awosusi, the key note speaker at the opening ceremony of the 3 days 2025 EKSU Registry Workshop themed “ The Registry as the Fulcrum for Effective Service Delivery in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria” .

Dr. Omojola who is a former Registrar at the institution described the Workshop as an avenue to interact, learn and unlearn basic and advanced skills necessary to ensure a enhanced system that will enable members of staff to perform to the best of their abilities.

While explaining the importance of a registry in a university system, Dr. Awosusi said the modern registry has gone beyond the old fashion of what it used to be and moreso, to train members in honing their skills to meet up with modern standards.

“Registry is the engine room of any administration, either in an academic setting, law courts, on birth and wedding certificates, even when you die it must be registered. we are the custodian of records and service various committes of the university, and we disseminate information. In short we are the contact point of anything that has to do with records keeping “.

The experienced record keeper also maintained that a university registry must be properly updated as it’s efficiency or inefficiency will determine the kind of image output such university is building especially when issues arise.

“Look at what is happening in the university of Nigeria Nsukka, where there’s confusion as to whether the Minister of Finance actually graduated there or not. In a normal registry system, you get the accurate information and that accurate information is the authentic information and in a university where the ‘Registry’ is well grounded such confusion will not arise in the first place. This is more of post digital literacy”. He concluded.

Earlier, the Vice Chancellor of the Institution, Prof. Joseph Babatola Ayodele, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academics, while delivering the opening remarks said the workshop is not only timely and thought provoking, but also necessary for a smooth running of academic and administrative operations of the university.

” I want to seize this opportunity to charge our administrative and ancillary officers that as the dynamics of higher education continue to evolve driven by technology, regulatory demands and global best practices, it becomes imperative that officers in the registry should continually update their knowledge, refine their skills and embrace modern administrative techniques and tools”

Prof. Ayodele while commending members of the planning committee for putting up the event, thanked the past Registrars of the institution for their input since it was established in 1982.

The Registrar of the Institution, Ife Oluwole declared that the purpose of the workshop is to ensure that all staff in the registry are trained, retrained and repositioned for better performance such that modern day techniques are expended in the university administrative issues.

” We expect that participants comport themselves and make themselves available during the training so that they can actually get the benefits of organizing the training and network between senior colleagues, and people who have wealth of experience”

The workshop closing ceremony will hold on 16th of October 2025 with participants drawn across sister institutions, corporate organizations, and selected members of the public.