The Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Ilorin, (Unilorin) has started the use of electronic registration of students’ attendance at lecture rooms and clinical areas in order to address students’ absenteeism and lateness to class.

The Dean of the Faculty, Professor Ibrahim Katibi, who disclosed this in a chat with a crew of Unilorin Bulletin in his office, said “Learning Medicine essentially is by observing and doing, reading and memorising. It is an art because you need to acquire some basic tools aside from the theoretical knowledge.

So, if a student did not come around and watch how things are done, he or she won’t be able to acquire those skills.”

 “From the old method of using stationery to write attendance, students learnt how to smuggle their friend’s name into the attendance. This decision will scrap that and everyone will be properly monitored.”

He pointed out that the idea of employing electronic registration of students’ attendance at lectures and clinical activities is lofty, adding that by installing electronic registers with biometric data capturing of the individual students on the machine, it is going to be difficult for anybody to sign on behalf of another; as every student must be there personally to be captured.