The National Universities Commission is saying no to diplomas and pre-degrees.
The National Universities Commission has now banned Universities from running pre-degree and diploma programmes.
This
new directive was given by the Executive Secretary of the Universities
Commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed at a meeting with Vice
Chancellors.
The
meeting with had in attendance the Vice Chancellors of all 143
Universities had the Commission announce that the running of those
programmes should be left to the polytechnics.
Why? So they can focus on developing human resources in undergraduate, part-time and post-graduate programmes.
That's
not all. A directive was also given for the research arm of the
National Universities Commission to work with the research departments
of the Universities.
The best part?
The statement regarding these new developments read:
“A
comprehensive review of the entire university curricula (the Benchmark
Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS)) and ranking of Nigerian universities
have also been scheduled for 2017, while two of the cardinal activities
of the commission, accreditation of programmes and resource
verification, will now take place only twice and thrice a year,
respectively: May and November for accreditation as well as March, July
and December for resource verification.”
What does this mean for the Nigerian student?
It
means that every year, the Nigerian student hoping to enter University
knows that she has only one shot at it. Perhaps, that could be enough
motivation, knowing that there's no safety net like pre-degrees or
diplomas.
And when they finally get in, a
revised curriculum means goodbye to the almost archaic curricula that
currently exists in most Nigerian Universities.
The future is looking good.
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