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Rivers State College of Arts and Science (RIVCAS) Rumuola, Port Harcourt now has a three-phase history of transition. Established in 1977 by the Federal Military Government along with 10 others in States that were designated as educationally less developed (ELD) the Rivers State School of Basic Studies was conceived of as a tertiary institution to redress the apparent educational imbalance in this part of Nigeria. It was affiliated to the University of Ibadan and later for pre-degree (IJMB) courses to the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

The Federal Government later handed over the running of the Schools of Basic Studies with their autonomous tertiary characteristics of a governing council, management committee, academic board, schools, departments and units to the State. Thus on April 19, 1984, Police Commissioner Fidelis Oyakhilome, then Military Governor signed into law, the edict establishing Rivers State School of Basic Studies with effect from November 1977 when it started operating.

The School successfully turned around the fate of teeming young citizens of old Rivers State as they obtained reasonable results from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in School Certificate and Higher School Certificates (HSC) as well as the Interim Joint Matriculation Board Examinations (IJMBE) and they eventually took up erstwhile illusive university admissions.

The introduction by the Federal Government of the 6-3-3-4 system of education threatened Schools of Basic Studies all over Nigeria leading to the repositioning as polytechnics, Colleges of Arts, Science, Technology, Education etc. Rivers State School of Basic Studies dynamically repositioned as Rivers State College of Arts and Science (RIVCAS) with the mandate to offer courses leading to the award of Diplomas and certificates in various disciplines besides the school certificates and IJMB.

The Chief Executive transformed in nomenclature from PRINCIPAL to PROVOST; the Workers' Education Programme (WEP) got enlarged into Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) and various courses were mounted at Diploma and Certificate Levels. That was courtesy of Colonel Godwin Osagie Abbe then Military Governor of Rivers State signing the edict establishing the College effective January 1991.

The RIVCAS Edict in modifying the RSSBS edict created three Schools - Arts, Science and Preliminary Studies and the Institute of Continuing Education each headed by a Director. The Schools were in-turn structured into Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, Management Sciences, Technical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Biological Sciences.

The third phase of our history of transition took effect in 2006 when the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) bowed to Government and extraneous pressures and granted RIVCAS permission to offer courses leading to the award of National Diploma (ND) after due regulatory visitations. By that leave, RIVCAS became a polytechnic funded by Rivers State Government and supervised by the NBTE to enhance improved technical and technological training of Rivers people and our neighbours in Nigeria.

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