Professor Julius Abiola Ademokoya (University of Ibadan)
Professor Julius Abiola Ademokoya, a Professor of Speech and Hearing Education Rehabilitation, was born on 8th January, 1963 in Esa-Odo, Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State. He attended the United Primary School, Esa-Odo, 1971 – 1977, Ijebu Jesa Grammar School, Ijebu Jesa 1977 – 1982, (O Level Certificate), Ilesa Grammar School, Ilesa, 1982 – 1984 (A Level Certificate), University of Ibadan, 1984 – 1987 (Bachelor of Education) 1988 – 1989 (Master of Education) and 1989 – 1995 (Ph.D). He undertook his National Service in Bomadi, a riverine town in Delta State between 1987 and 1988.
Professor Julius Abiola Ademokoya, a Professor of Speech and Hearing Education Rehabilitation, was born on 8th January, 1963 in Esa-Odo, Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State. He attended the United Primary School, Esa-Odo, 1971 – 1977, Ijebu Jesa Grammar School, Ijebu Jesa 1977 – 1982, (O Level Certificate), Ilesa Grammar School, Ilesa, 1982 – 1984 (A Level Certificate), University of Ibadan, 1984 – 1987 (Bachelor of Education) 1988 – 1989 (Master of Education) and 1989 – 1995 (Ph.D). He undertook his National Service in Bomadi, a riverine town in Delta State between 1987 and 1988.
Professor Ademokoya worked as the pioneer Speech Therapist in the
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital,
Ilorin, between January 1990 and August 1994 when he transferred his service to
the University of Ibadan. He joined the Department of Special
Education in August 1994 as an Assistant Lecturer. He was upgraded
to Lecturer II in 1995, promoted Lecturer I in 1997, Senior Lecturer in 2001
and Professor in 2007.
He served as the Head of Department of Special Education, University of
Ibadan between January 2008 and January 2010. He was elected
President of the Speech Pathologists and Audiologists Association in Nigeria in
2011. He was the Southwest Nigeria Coordinator of the National
Council for Exceptional Children in 2012. Professor Ademokoya was
appointed a Visiting Professor to the University of Health and Allied Sciences
Ho, Ghana, in August 2016; He was also appointed the Coordinator of the
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, of the same University between October
2016 and July 2017. He was elected, Dean of the Faculty of
Education, University of Ibadan on 1st August
2017. He was inducted as Fellow, of the National Council of
Exceptional Children, in November 2017 and elected Chairman, Committee of Deans
of Education in Nigerian Universities (CODENU) on 26th April
2018.
Professor Ademokoya has served as consultant to a number of
organisations. They include the Continuing Education Coordinating
Unit of Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, UNICEF (Children in Extreme
Difficult Circumstances), UKAID (Teachers Development Programmes on Special
Needs Education).
He has served as the Patron of the Nigeria Stutterers Association,
member of Trustees of the Educational Sign Language Interpreters Association in
Nigeria, Board member, International School, Ibadan, Member, JAMB Equal
Opportunity Group for Visually Impaired Candidates. Member, Stroke Action
Nigeria. Professor Ademokoya has over 60 publications via local and
international outlets.
Prof.
Emmanuel Osinem (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
Prof. Emmanuel Osinem is an
Instructional Development/Delivery and Quality Assurance expert in Vocational
Technical Education and holds a PhD in Vocational Agricultural Education. He
has over 21 years of university level teaching and research experiences (undergraduate
and postgraduate) at the Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). He has supervised over 60 B.Sc, 45 Masters
and, 30 PhD theses. He had also successfully conducted a number of local and
international funded researches, has many researched articles published in
learned journals within and outside Nigeria and authored and co-authored a
number of books. Prior to joining University of Nigeria, he has had over 11
years experience working with Post-primary Schools Services Commission, Anambra
State, Nigeria, designing and implementing agricultural programmes with focus
on Youth Empowerment in various agricultural occupations.
He
is currently a Professor of Agricultural Education & Training, Dean,
Faculty of Vocational & Technical Education, Coordinator, UNESCO-UNEVOC
centre of Centre for Technical Vocational Education, Training & Research
(CETVETAR) UNN, Coordinator/Founder, Innovations in TVET Research/Project
Group. He is also the Human Capital Development Officer of Business Development
Centre (BDC) UNN – an African Development Bank TVE funded project of Federal
Ministry of Education from May 2014.
He
was Director of CETVETAR from August 2016 to August 2018, Coordinator of Agricultural
Education Unit of the Department of Vocational Teacher Education 2003-2009,
Pioneer Head of Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Education,
2015-2016, Facilitator of research and training activities of CETVETAR Center
of Excellence 4.5 Million US Dollars World Bank Grants under STEP-B Project
2010-2013, the Coordinator of training modules development, UNESCO-HP Project on Biotechnology
Research/Training with Nigerians in Diaspora 2007-2012, the Chair,
consulting with Anambra State Government of Nigeria on Modalities for Increasing
Agricultural Production in the State from 1999-2003.
In the international academic/project engagements,
Prof Osinem is presently the UNN Coordinator of three Eramus plus projects two
being anchored by University of Valladolid, Spain (Erasmus Mundus Plus UVA1: International Academic Mobility, Erasmus Mundus Plus UVA 2: International Academic Mobility ) and
one anchored by University of Porto, Portugal (Erasmus Mundus Plus: MOBILE Unlimited Project) and
Intra-Africa Academic Mobility – AFRICOM Project in a partnership of
six African universities led by University of Younde 1, Cameroun.
He was the coordinator of three
versions of Erasmus Mundus Academic Mobility Projects – the Mundus ACPII,
the ANGLE and the DREAM projects in consortia lead by University of Porto,
Portugal 2012 -2017; he also represented University of Nigeria in an
European Commission funded Joint Africa-EU
Partnership Strategy on harmonization of
quality and standards in Africa higher education – the Tuning Africa Project phases
I & II under Teacher Education within the same period.
Prof Osinem was part of
the team (constituted by the National Universities Commission) – the Nigerian
Special Delegation on Higher Education in 2010 to CHINA
to negotiate with World Class Centres of Excellence and Universities in various areas of Science and Technology for partnership and cooperation with
international institutions, professional
associations and the organized private
sector with Nigerian universities
and newly established centers of
excellence under the World Bank Assisted STEP-B project. He was
the team leader of Partnerships for Smart Farming Media project evolving from African Green Revolution Conference
held in Oslo, Norway, 2008. Professor Osinem is an alumnus of International Training Centre of
International Labour Organization in Turin, Italy having participated in ILO Training
on Lifelong
e-learning: innovative Solutions in 2009 and Skills Development Academy Programme, in 2012.
His areas of
research interests include Programme and Instructional Development in
Agriculture; Research & Development in Vocational and Technical Education;
Innovativeness/outcome-based approaches in Project Management
