About 14 programmes of the University of Abuja, together with Legislation, have been accredited by the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC), the administration of the college has stated.
The administration additionally stated out of the 14, 10 educational programmes got full accreditation whereas 4 had interim accreditation.
Accreditation, in response to the legal guidelines creating the NUC, is a course of whereby educational programmes are evaluated each 5 years.
The evaluation standards embody the variety of lecturers with PhDs and the infrastructure to accommodate undergraduate and postgraduates programs.
The NUC’s accreditation crew additionally establishes the variety of college students which may be admitted per programme.
Every programme that complies is entitled to full five-year accreditation, with people who fall simply wanting compliance being awarded partial accreditation of three years solely.
Assertion
In a press release despatched to PREMIUM TIMES Sunday night, the spokesperson of the College of Abuja, Habib Yakoob, stated the programmes with full accreditation embody Public Administration, Training Arabic Research, Training Christian Rel. Research, Training English, Training Geography, Training Islamic Rel. Research, Steerage and Counselling, Legislation, Chemistry and Microbiology.
He stated these with Interim accreditation are Banking and Finance, Training Physics, Academic Administration and Planning, and Main Training Research.
Mr Yakoob additionally stated Pc Science was not but accredited.
“Just some days in the past, your College acquired the outcomes of the November 2019 Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC) accreditation go to to the UofA of Nigeria; and out of 15 (fifteen educational packages visited), it’s only one in all them, Pc Science, that we have now issue in, which Tutorial Planning Workplace, working with the educational division involved, would put together an attraction for a revisit and a re-evaluation,” Mr Yakoob quoted the Vice-Chancellor, Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, as saying.
In response to Mr Yakoob, “the vice-chancellor stated we’re in the course of laying a strong Web infrastructure (fibrotic) in all our campuses. Your College is establishing pc laboratories throughout colleges and departments the place college students and workers would simply stroll in when they should use computer systems. A number of of our lecture rooms are in this system of now being transformed into good lecture rooms the place learners and instructors can use cyber expertise.”
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“Your College has already constructed and is perfecting its UniAbuja Digital classroom system and lots of college students are presently taking some programs on-line in a Pilot examine of our Digital Classroom system, and the Centre for Sponsored Initiatives, the Centre for Undergraduate Analysis, the College of Abuja Worldwide Centre, the Entrepreneurship Centre, the Common Research unit, and extra, are all mobilizing workers and college students to discover world-class educational, analysis and world citizenship alternatives supplied within the nice UofA of Nigeria,” the vice-chancellor reportedly stated.
Sexual harassment platform
The vice-chancellor additionally stated the college has created a rape and sexual harassment reporting platform on the principle college web site.
He stated the platform would supply a possibility to “any pupil who felt he or she has been harassed, nonetheless lengthy this has occurred to him or her. (They) can report back to the College authority, and such report will go on to the designated officer and the Vice-Chancellor, the place each official course of can be adopted to completely comply with up and resolve the allegation whereas additionally defending the sufferer on the highest stage.”
He stated the report back to this platform would obtain spontaneous and fast consideration together with “most safety and safety and on the spot intelligence actions.”
He stated the scholars can log their complaints on sexual harassment here.
Supply: allafrica.com
