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University Dons rate quality of training in AUL high

L-R: Prof Robert Mudida (Kenya), Prof Joseph .O. Afolayan (VC, AUL), Mr Abimbola Olulesi (Ag Reg, AUL), Prof. Alberiko Gil-Alana (Spain), Dr Olawale Awe (AUL) and Dr Olarenwaju Shittu (UI) during the opening ceremony of the conference in AUL.
Instructors and participants from Africa and beyond rose from a 3-day International Conference held at Anchor University, Lagos (AUL) with excitement and appreciation to the organisers.
The conference held at Anchor University with the theme: Basic and Advanced Times Series Analysis: Theory, Practice and Programming on September 11 – 14, 2018 and was hosted by Anchor University, and the International Society for Business & Industrial Statistics (ISBIS).
Speaking at the end of the training, Professor Luis Gil-Alana, an instructor with the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) and a Prof of Econometrics & Quantitative Methods at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, expressed his delight at the quality programme and logistics put in place for the conference by AUL.
“If I have to compare the quality of this conference with the ones I’ve attended in Africa before now, and this includes South Africa, Benin, Kenya and Rwanda, I will say Anchor University organised the best so far. I was treated to a unique experience on this Campus,” he said.
The second ISBIS instructor at the conference who also doubled as an Associate Professor of Econometrics at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Prof Robert Mudida, shared a similar view.
In his word, “It is almost impossible to believe that Anchor University is less than two years old. The organised system on the Campus and the orderliness are amazing. I am not surprised that these have positively reflected on the quality of the conference.”
Apart from the instructors, the participants from countries across African were also upbeat with what they experienced at the conference. One of the participants, Forster Shitsi, a lecturer from the Department of Banking and Finance with Marshalls University, Ghana commended the quality of the conference and described the infrastructure in AUL as massive considering that the University was established less than two years ago.
Another participant, Balogun Damilola, from the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Bowen University, Nigeria believed she had more than she hoped for at the conference. “I am happy I got what I paid for at this conference. The standard and the quality of training made it a rich experience for me,” she said during an interaction with Anchor Weekly.
Also sharing her experience at the conference, Dr Adebayo Adepoju, a lecturer in the Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, said though she had been to many private Universities in her 20 years lecturing experience, Anchor University’s serene learning environment was an exceptional one.  She also rated the quality of the conference as par with other international conferences could be fine anywhere.
Earlier, during the opening ceremony, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Joseph O Afolayan had encouraged the participants to make the best of training saying time series analysis has a lot to offer in academic research and enquiries which should help us understand our world better.
“Feel free on our Campus as everything required to give you the best experience is already put in place,” he assured them.
Though the conference has ended, the echoes of its impacts, according to the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, Dr Olawale Awe, will continue to resonate with us across Africa for a long time.

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