EKPOMA – A professor of Educational Administration, Eunice Omoregie has challenged stakeholders in education sector to ensure their efforts translate into quality graduates and school leavers.

According to her, anything to the contrary would be detrimental to the community, as bringing forth poor quality graduates would make the community poorer each passing day.

Prof. Omoregie who is the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma-Edo State, gave the advice while delivering the 71st Inaugural Lecture of the university, titled, “Organisational Behaviour in the Business of Education: The Seed and the Sower, for Richer or for Poorer”.

She remarked that workers in education sector, including leaders and followers constituted the sowers in the education business of teaching and learning, noting that their contribution must be to the well-being of education sector or institution.

“We need good fruits (quality output) from the education business. This is the assignment given to the education sector to produce quality teachers, lawyers, doctors politicians, economists, engineers, architects, sociologists, among others.

“Anything to the contrary will be seriously frowned at. For the education business to meet up with its mandate, both leaders and followers must work in collaboration in mutual trust”, she asserted.

She explained also that managing behaviour of workers for the sake of achieving goals was key to the task of every leader, as reactions of workers to situations were determinants of performance on the job.

The inaugural lecturer stated that since communication was the soul of every human behaviour, effective communication must be pursued by all persons in an organization, including the business of education.

Identifying job stress as another issue that could hamper productivity, Prof. Omoregie called for proper management of stress to engender quality outputs.

Omoregie enumerated other issues that could affect performance, to include facilities, staffing, conflict, health, motivation, job security, funding,among others.

The vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Ignatius Onimawo in his speech disclosed that AAU sponsored 21 administrative staff for a one-week training at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON).

The vice chancellor who said the training was to sharpen the administrative efficiency and effectiveness of the staff, disclosed that the registry was expected to organise in-house training workshops, seminars and lectures in line with vision of his administration.