DIFN Diaspora Volunteers visit to Adamawa in January 2010

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Friday 9 July at UEL

Dr Bakari and Mrs Alfa came back to the Cass School of Education at UEL's Stratford Campus to discuss how the Development Impact For Nigeria (DIFN) volunteers will be used during their forthcoming trip to Adamawa State. The blog about this trip will be at eventually be at http://diasporavolunteeringtoadsubeb2.blogspot.com/.


The Adamawa State team met with The Dean of the Cass School of Education; Ms Ann Slater and the Associate Dean: Dr Linda Amrane-Cooper.
Meeting with Deans at Cass School of Education
From the School of Education at the Stratford Campus, the Adamawa Team are taken to UEL's Docklands Campus.
Mrs Alfa at the Docklands Campus in University Square
At the Docklands Campus, we meet with Joseph Birtus who is the out going president of UEL's Student Union.
Dr Bakari, Joseph Birtus and Mrs Alfa
Joseph shows us round the North Building where the Student's union has its offices as well as a reception where the various services the students union provides for students can be accessed. The visitors were given some of the documentation produced by the Student's Union including:
the Programme Representation Handbook 2009 / 2010 that is a guide to support students elected to be programme representatives; the student's written submission for the UEL Institutional Audit and UEL's Vice Chancellor's strategic plan for the next 10 years titled Transformation for Excellence 2010.
The staff end of year party was taking place during the visit and this provided the team with an opportunity to meet with some of the many Nigerians who are members of staff at UEL.
Jean Bean, Business Manager at the Knowledge Dock showed the team around the Knowledge Dock which encourages and assists the development of enterprise opportunities for students, academics, inventors and local companies, it helps these businesses to grow through incubation services, expert centres and support programmes.

Mrs Alfa, Jean Bean and Dr Bakari outside the Knowledge Dock

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