This has a lot of implications:
The National Universities Commission has announced the suspension of all part-time

programmes run by universities in Nigeria.



The Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Julius Okojie Okojie said the suspension of

the part- time programmes was to enable the regulatory body “streamline” them.



He said the work of the universities’ regulatory body was becoming more difficult because of

the “products of the system” and urged the institutions to cooperate with the NUC to evolve a more focused and credible system.



“For now all part time programmes have beensuspended. We are going to streamline them.



“No university should have more than 20 per cent of their student population on part-time

with excess capacity to teach. All part time programmes must be located on campus.



We do not want satellite campuses anymore,” he said. The executive secretary said henceforth

universities must score over 70 per cent in all areas of assessment, including the provision of

library facilities before it would be accredited.



“But if your library facilities are poor or sub standard, even if you score over 70 per cent, you will not be considered fit enough for accreditation,” he stated.



Okojie said that out of the 31 programmes evaluated for the NOUN, 30 were accredited. He said that four programmes of the university were granted full accreditation, 26 others

accredited on interim basis while one programme was denied accreditation.



(NAN)

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