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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE SCHOOL AND ENABLING LAW

 

 Historical Background

The School was founded on 1st July, 1908 as a Government Departmental Training Institution attached to the Colonial Survey Department in Lagos for the training of Technical Assistants. It later moved from Lagos to Ibadan in 1926 and later to Oyo in 1934.

When regionisation came and Surveying was no longer in the exclusive list, the School was split into two. One belonged to Federal Surveys and the other maintained by the then Western Region Survey Department. This arrangement continued till 1965 when the Federal School then located at Okene had a storm disaster. The Federal Students were then relocated to the Western Regional School still at Oyo.

With this cohabitation, the Federal Surveys Department continued to support the School with staff and materials (instruments and funds inclusive) until 1976. In that year, the Western Region, then known as Western State was split into three States – Oyo, Ogun and Ondo States and the proprietorship of the School was transferred to Federal Surveys again.

For about 80 years of its existence, the School was running programmes only in Land Surveying. In January 1989, the Federal Survey School of Photogrammetry and Cartography earlier based at Ebute-Metta, Lagos was transferred to Oyo and merged with the School. In effect, from 1989, the School started to run Basic (Later Intermediate) and Advanced Certificates Programmes in Photogrammetry and Cartography.

The School had also changed its name at various times. It had been known as “Survey School”, “School of Surveying”. “Federal Survey School” and finally by virtue of decree 19 of 1990 it was established as “Federal School of Surveying”.

Enabling Law (Decree (now Act) 19 of 25th June, 1990)

In response to Federal Government’s directive that all Federal Institutions should be legally established, Decree (now Act) 19 of 25th June, 1990 otherwise known as Federal School of Surveying Decree 1990 was promulgated. This decree gave the School its new dispensation. One significant aspect of this decree is that the School commenced being administered through a Governing Council as against being run directly by Federal Surveys Department.

MISSION STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES OF  THE SCHOOL

Mission Statements

The Federal School of Surveying, Oyo is a Tertiary Institution set up primarily to produce Professionals, Technologists and in the field of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics and other related programmes for the National Economy. The School being a pioneer in Surveying Education and Centre of Excellence, its aim is to strive at producing graduates who shall be:

•   Sound and Proficient in the practice of the profession;
• Technically confident such that they can solve any problem confronting them in practice;
• Of high integrity and maintain high ethical standards.

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To encourage its staff to contribute to learned journals publications and also create an atmosphere conducive to publication of textbooks and reading materials, scientific enquiry and inventions for the greater glory of the school in particular and that of the nation in general.

Objectives

 In addition to the core academicals and training objectives as stated above, the school has other objectives such as Social, Economic, Political and Technological as stated below:

 Social :The social objectives of the school are:

• To uphold the best social values and norms of our society;
• To promote the concept of social responsibility within its immediate and external environment;
•  To promote the Physical, Mental and Social well-being of its graduates; (iv) To foster the spirit of self-discipline and self-sacrifice;
•  To encourage the preservation and development of human values and respect for fellow human beings.

ECONOMIC :The economic objectives shall be to:

• Foster the spirit of hard work and consequently high productivity with a view to increasing the nation’s wealth and improving the quality of life of Nigerians.
• Strive to turn out component professionals, technologists and technicians who shall practice and maintain the standard of their profession.
• Engage in consultancy services and other economic ventures which might improve the technological and financial standing of the Institution.

POLITICAL:The political objectives shall be to:

• Identify and promote civic responsibility among Nigerians
• Inculcate in its students/graduates the spirit of tolerance of the divergent shades of opinion.

TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES

With the abundant natural and human resources with which Nigeria is endowed, there is crying need for the exploration of these resources to the nation’s advantage by the acquisition and development of technology. As these objectives should be seen as a pivot on which the existence of the school hinges, the Institution should endeavor:

• To keep abreast of all technological development. In this regard, the school should be able to convince government of the need to fund applied research adequately.
• Strive to turn out component professionals, technologists and technicians who shall practice and maintain the standard of their profession.
• To emphasize self-reliance by striving to improve indigenous technology
• To encourage in its graduate a scientific and rational approach to life in general by exposing them to the ideals of objective and balanced thinking.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Since it is the desire of government in setting up Monotechnic to have the twin goals of academic excellence as well as meeting the manpower requirements of the national economy, the educational objectives will be seen largely in the Institution’s attempt to produce competent and lower technicians:

• To strive for excellence in education through acceptable curriculum that are designed to produce well-groomed graduates
• To endeavor to expose students to such educational standards and programmes that are designed to improve their competitive advantage.
• To acquire sufficient facilities, both physical and human terms, and rationalize their use with a view to giving the best instructional training to its graduates
• To encourage meaningful interaction between staff and students both in house and externally.
• To encourage its staff to contribute to learned journals/publications and also create an atmosphere conducive to publication of textbooks, reading materials, scientific enquiry and inventions for the greater glory of the Monotechnics in particular and that of the nation in general.