EAC begins international student exchange programme

Written by Adeolu Adeyemo Monday, 20 August 2012

The Director of Educational Advancement Centre (EAC), Ibadan, Mr Muyiwa Bamgbose, has disclosed that the institution has delivered its first set of direct entry students for Medicine to the South Western University, Cebu, Philippi.
The Director of EAC who said that the institution has been in partnership with the university while speaking with newsmen, stated that two pioneer students, Miss Adebayo and Mr Nathaniel Adiakpan, were handed over to the President of the university, Prof. Elsa Suralta, last month.
According to him “EAC has also prepared thousands of students from different communities for the Cambridge Advanced Level GCE since 1996 with many of them graduating with First Class and Second Class Upper Division grades in various universities across the world.”
“The EAC entered into the partnership in 2010 with a view to opening up more study opportunities for many communities and Nigerians in foreign countries.In the year 2010, the Educational Advancement Centre in Ibadan announced the flag-off of its Pre-Medical Programme, whereby the student spends two years in Nigeria and goes on to spend four and a half years in the Philippines for the Medical degree. The pioneer set completed their Foundation programme earlier in the year.
“Due to the successful take-off of the Phase One of the programme, EAC has also concluded arrangements to add various types of Engineering and Architecture courses into the programme.”
Source Nigeria  Tribune