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institutions are established with the aim of meeting certain objectives and fulfilling specific purposes for human development.
The essence of any formal or informal education is to produce an individual who will be a useful member of the society.
  Sound education should engender in the individual a disposition of personal autonomy, responsibility, innovation and a positive outlook on life.
The shortfall in university education and its challenges in meeting national development goals require cooperative and collaborative efforts.
That positive effort in modern times will begin with the role played by major stakeholders like the Alumni.

In response to this quest to strategically develop its arm for future engagements, Federal University Oye Ekiti held her inaugural Alumni Lecture entitled “University Education and National Development, The Role of Alumni,” delivered by a guest speaker.
Mr. Jadesola Babatola from Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.  Mr. Babatola described university education as an input and end-product of highly endowed scholarship and well-organized academic instruction to knowledge, science and culture.
 He further hinged on national development as an advancement and expansion of human social and economic progress occurring at different stages of existence.

According to him, any policy, action or activity designed to achieve higher human satisfactions and benefits bear indices of human development.
 Some of these development policies as identified by him include provision of adequate infrastructure, development of institutional infrastructure, promoting better utilization of resources, seeking out and assisting potential entrepreneurs.
 These policies when fully engaged foster national development.  While commenting on the ever growing need for synergy between alumni associations and their parent institutions, he disclosed that the relationship between the two has become an all-important part of an institution’s advancement actions for several mutual benefits.
 Babatola stressed that healthy relations between alumni associations and institutions make students feel obliged and honoured to return goodwill to their institutions after making successes in life. He noted that alumni, to some degrees, offer fiscal relief to their parent universities, adding that continuing to recognize the association for their excellence is one of the surest ways for universities to both cultivate their community and receive pecuniary support from the association.