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 keeping with 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 staff 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 in need of compliance being awarded partial accreditation of three years solely.
Assertion
In an announcement despatched to PREMIUM TIMES Sunday night, the spokesperson of the College of Abuja, Habib Yakoob, stated the programmes with full accreditation embody Public Administration, Schooling Arabic Research, Schooling Christian Rel. Research, Schooling English, Schooling Geography, Schooling Islamic Rel. Research, Steerage and Counselling, Legislation, Chemistry and Microbiology.
He stated these with Interim accreditation are Banking and Finance, Schooling Physics, Academic Administration and Planning, and Major Schooling Research.
Mr Yakoob additionally stated Laptop Science was not but accredited.
“Only a few 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 applications visited), it’s only certainly one of them, Laptop Science, that we have now problem in, which Educational 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 line with 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 laptop laboratories throughout schools and departments the place college students and employees would simply stroll in when they should use computer systems. A number of of our school rooms are in this system of now being transformed into sensible school rooms the place learners and instructors can use cyber know-how.”
“Your College has already constructed and is perfecting its UniAbuja Digital classroom system and lots of college students are at present 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 Basic Research unit, and extra, are all mobilizing employees 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 offer a possibility to “any scholar 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 authentic course of could be adopted to completely observe up and unravel the allegation whereas additionally defending the sufferer on the highest degree.”
He stated the report back to this platform would obtain spontaneous and rapid 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.
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