ISESA UniJos Chapter

The Science Integrators Yearbook

Dear Member of ISESA,

Based on the academic calendar of the University of Jos, the 2022/2023 academic session officially commenced on Monday, 28th August 2023. The session is expected to end on Friday, 21st June 2024.

The ISESA Hike (the first of its kind) which was held on Saturday, 27th May 2023 remains the most memorable event during the 2021/2022 academic session. Sadly, the planned ISESA Dinner & Award Night did not come to fruition during that session. Likewise, the Science Integrators yearbook. With a due sense of responsibility, I was the Chairman of the Dinner Committee and the Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook.

The visuals in this post are illustrations of what the yearbook production team had in mind to publish as the maiden edition of an annual publication chronicling the activities of ISESA, documenting membership, and the experiences of students past and present.

The team envisioned a publication that would serve as a reference for the posterity of ISESA, a manual, an encouragement, and a guiding light to sojourn through the unique challenges of the four-year undergraduate Integrated Science Education Programme.

This post is an appeal to the new leadership of ISESA, to consider bringing this dream to reality. Consider what good this publication serves when there are many students like me, who during my first two years in the ISE Programme, sought encouragement from those who have gone through the programme despite the negative stereotypes attached to courses preparing one to become a trained and certified teacher in Nigeria. This is the common lot we bear: the ISE Programme has its unique and quite depressing stereotype, not to mention the course load.

We believe this publication has the potential to provide some respite to the individual members of the association, any student enrolled to study for a BSc./BEd. in the ISE Programme.

In the meantime, based on the update from me about the yearbook, re-published on Saturday, 16th September 2023 on the association's page and group, the publication of entries received for the yearbook will be published on the Facebook platforms of ISESA.

Also, I must acknowledge the generosity and contribution of the graphic designer behind the flyer for entries and the visuals attached to this post. To of Sicomm Global: On behalf of the Science Integrators yearbook team, we are grateful. And also to the publisher Random Despatches, we are grateful.

Thank you for your kind reception thus far.

Yours faithfully,
Tongjal Wungakha Nungbulla,
(Class of 2021)
Editor-in-Chief, Science Integrators