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“Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.” – Frederick Douglass
It is stale news on Ekiti State University campus, that a new development technology system has been initiated to enhance the learning process of the students. However, it is a development which has not gotten a favorable compliment from the students as they best refer to it as enslavement. Its level of rejection can’t be overemphasized as everyone refuses to take personal responsibility for its endorsement as part of the school curriculum. The tag “SMART SCHOOL” has encountered several challenges as the wish of the majority of the
Consequently, following the annulment of the SUG election for
We all left what is important, to argue on baseless fact, that is the fee attached to the innovation, is this scheme even beneficial at all, let’s then weigh the advantages and disadvantages. As my opponent may as well claim the payment is irrelevant, the scheme is not worth it at this time, because students are not resident on campus and as such the 10GB data per month is a waste. The major problem we have is the failure to realize other benefits of this initiative – our complacent nature as a youth, no wonder we are referred to as being lazy. Are we not?
In a school without a conducive place of learning, where students find it hard to hear the lecturers and fully partake in the classes as some are made to stand because of the inability of the lecture theaters to accommodate them. The failure of the students is often hinged on this fact and others which may include the inability to do research and refusal to buy textbooks that foster their learning. Should the students then keep failing?
No, it should not be. The Smart School portal gives every registered student access to classes and notebooks for a whole semester. In the prestigious faculty of law, where we can boast of efficient lecture theaters, we often misspell cases, maxims, and words which divert us to a different thing and it’s a major cause of failure. With the help of this new initiative, words, case titles & maxims we can’t spell are corrected, and the available data helps to download textbooks and do proper research.
We all compliment the system of W


Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care
At the beginning of this session, the students of Ekiti State University were welcomed to the new session by the school authority with an unprecedented hike in school fee, as if the welcome package was not enough, we were also welcomed with an innovation called the SMART SCHOOL. Asides from the basic tuition, the school fees include ICT dues while expected to pay a whopping sum of four thousand
The Smart School is a digital platform where lecturers upload their lecture notes for students’ consumption and give online assignments while the students are also expected to submit online. The Smart School initiative also allows financially eligible students to enjoy free data of about 10GB per month. However, the school in its smart approach has refused to make the smart school free by making it mandatory for all students to pay a sum of fourteen thousand
From a rich man’s perspective, the Smart School idea seems smart, but from the perspective of a commoner, it is only a smart move by the school authorities to extort the students of the school. EKSU is not residential, school gates are closed by 10 pm, and private hostels around the school do not have electricity supply not forgetting that not all students have access to a smartphone and the Smart School in its smartness starts working by 8:00 am and ceases to work by 4:00 pm.
The question is when am I expected to use the smart school? Am I expected to use it within the hours of 8:00 am to 2:00 pm which happens to be statutory hours of lecture? Or 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm when I am supposed to feed my brain with rest in anticipation for night reading? Where I accidentally have the time, how am I supposed to get my smartphone charged when I do not have access to electricity in my hostel and what is my hope if I do not have a smartphone at all after paying the unjustly increased school fee through my nose. Again, I ask, how am I to enjoy 10GB which has been given to me in exchange for 14,000 naira?
My friends in Benue State University are not smart but they enjoy free Wi-Fi at no cost to them with their school been residential making access to the 24hours Wi-Fi easy and effective.
It is my submission that the smart school is Machiavellian in nature and for the students of EKSU who also happens to be major users, the Smart School is not smart, it is only a smart plot by the school authorities to feed fat on the vulnerability of the students who do not want to disobey orders.
Conclusively, we the consumers careless about how smart the Smart School is because the Smart School is not smart enough to care for our internet and digital needs.
Simi, you have done a great job with this piece, my take about the whole scenario is that the smart school is not smart as you have rightly said, it is only smart for the school authority and probably the then government of the day to exploit the students through smart but fraudulent means. It is worthy of note that that same provision has been captured in the breakdown of our school fees. Whether we need to educate our teachers (management) on the use of words, for instance, ICT has to do with all what they call portal charges and smart school but for their selfish interest, they coerced us again to pay for their biddings.
Interestingly and most worrisome aspect is the fact that those who happens to be on SIWES and IT were mandated to pay the evil fee they call smart school, they pay for something they didn’t use, isn’t that funny?
We must rise up and fight for our right at this junction so as to outsmart the smart. Simi, You are a courageous lad, bold and brilliant as I have always said, you have given us the headlight, we should fight this course to encourage people like you to do more.
God will replenish your knowledge as you strive to do better in your articles…
Summarily; the smart school is not smart as far as I’m concerned, it is still a problem and not a solution considering the fact that you will have to pay bogus amount of money in order to have access to it… thanks….Ire oooooo
We at smart school appreciate both commendations and criticisms. We must thank both scribes from EKSU who had taken out time to commend and to criticize our services.
Smart School as a service is geared towards providing a 21st century’s learning experience to students.
With our services, Teaching, Learning, Communication and Collaboration has been made seamless We have provided a digitial classroom for every course offered at EKSU TODAY.
Like the first scribe rightly said, students need to engage Smart School more by tolerating their staff and management during sensitization programmes this is how they can get the best out of the smart school services.
Let me mention here that against the believe of many, smart School isn’t about the pervasive WiFi that has been provided across campus neither is it all about the 10GB allocated to students monthly. The WiFi is just a vehicle through which the Smart School Services run.
The smart school service include:
1. The Learning Management System
2. MOOCs ( Massive Online Open Courses)
3. Scholarship schemes for outstanding students
4. E-library Services
5. Night Life Restoration.
6. Community Information Resource Centre.
These services has been crafted in a way to promote continuous learning and collaboration of both lectures and students. To counter my very good friend, smart school is a 24hrs service that is available irrespective of your location. I.e you can be in Dubai and still attend to your lectures, ask questions and get responses, do assignments and even tests. Consider how your WhatsApp App works today: That’s a perfect example of the real-time service smart school has provided.
It is equally important that I state here about our vision to ensure that every student graduating from EKSU henceforth is tech savvy having passed through our programs that has been specially crafted to give EKSU students an edge over their counterparts in the Labour Market.
With our MOOCs service, we provide a Selective Dissemination of related courses to students in relation to their courses of study. With this, we hope that an average student would have to his/her name at least 3 professional certifications from Ivy League universities across the globe in addition to their Eksu certificate upon graduation.
Our E-library provides over 30 million resources that can be accessed both online and offline mode for those that are interested in coming down to our community information resource center.
With the current information explosion the internet provides, we at Eksu smart school have painstakingly selected this materials to ensure it meet both academic and research needs.
As of today, we have provided lighting for LT Arts where students can read at night and has also added free Internet access from 8pm till dawn to further enrich the night life the lights are providing. Smart School is currently negotiating with EKSU management to restore electricity to school environment during daylight and at night in order to bring night life back and care for students welfare.
Space will not permit me to keep going on with what smart school has in stock for students. Just note that EKSU SMART SCHOOL is constantly unfolding with Digital trends as it applies to education.
Best Regards.