Tag: NUC
-
NUC issues fresh directives to Vice Chancellors on full reopening of varsities nationwide
Vice Chancellors of universities were told on Tuesday to conclude arrangements for the immediate and full reopening, following the decline in COVID-19 infection rates. The National Universities Commission (NUC), which issued the directive, said the Federal Ministry of Education has accepted its request for varsities to get set for immediate resumption of academic activities. The…
-
Copyright infringement: Court orders NUC, Airtel to pay N703m to media company
A Fededal High Court in Abuja has awarded the sum of N703 million as damages against the National Univiersities Commission, NUC and Zain Nigeria Ltd (now Airtel) for infringing on the copyright of a media company, TV Xtra Production. In his judgement on Wednesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that actions of the defendants, clearly breached…
-
Review of Nigeria’s university curriculum in final stage – NUC
Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, said the agency was in the final stage of “a draft review’’ of Nigeria’s university curriculum. Rasheed stated this at a high-level interactive dialogue commemorating this year’s International Day of Education at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Speaking as a panelist at…
-
BREAKING: NUC scraps Mass Communications degrees
The National Universities Commission, NUC, has phased out Mass Communication Degree in Nigeria institutions. With the development, there will be no more Mass Communication as a degree programme in universities in Nigeria. The NUC said it has unbundled Mass Communication into seven separate degree programmes to meet present demand and this takes effect from 2020…
-
NUC uncovers 100 fake professors in varsities
The National Universities Commission has said it has uncovered about 100 fake professors across Nigerian universities. The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, stated this in the November edition of the commission’s bulletin. The ES noted that the commission published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the names to…
-
Some private varsities aiding academic corruption – JAMB registrar
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Monday stated that some private universities were aiding academic corruption and decadence in the country. Oloyede spoke in Abuja at the opening ceremony of a two-day summit on Nigerian private universities, themed, “Private University Education Delivery in Nigeria; Challenges and Opportunities,” organised by the…
-
NUC processing applications for 303 new private universities
The National Universities Commission (NUC) says it is currently processing applications for 303 new private universities to cater for the demand of tertiary education in the country. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed made this known at a two-day National Summit on Private Universities on Monday in Abuja. The summit had as its…
-
Bayelsa gets new medical university
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the take-off of the Bayelsa Medical University (BMU) the third University in the state and number 48 state owned university in the country. The approval was given by Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary, (NUC) in Abuja on Thursday. Rasheed said it was necessary to have a specialised university…
-
NUC distances self from fake rankings, says Nigerian varsities not ranked in 14 years
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that it had not ranked the nation’s universities in the last 14 years, and declared that claims to that effect were “simply fake’’. Prof. Abubakar Rashid, its Executive Secretary, in an address at the 3rd Combined Convocation of the Bingham University, Karu in Nasarawaa State, urged members of…
-
JUST IN: NUC orders immediate reversal to five-point grading system
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the immediate reversal and adoption of the five-point grading system across Nigerian universities. Recall that some universities (mostly private) had initially switched to the four-point grading system. However, the NUC in a letter dated October 15 and directed to Vice Chancellors to immediately adopt the five-point…