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NUC Approves New Academic Programmes, Courses For Ondo Varsities

No fewer than three universities in Ondo State have received the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC), the agency supervising university education in the country, to run new academic programmes and courses on full-time basis, respectively.

The universities are Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, owned by the state government; and Elizade University, a private university located in Ilara-Mokin.

The new programmes approved for Adekunle Ajasin University are Nursing Science, Public Health, and Medical Laboratory Science in the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences; Cyber Security, Data Science, Software Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, and Information Systems in the Faculty of Computing; as well as Food Science and Technology in the Faculty of Agriculture.

Also for OAUSTECH the NUC approved Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Economics, Public Administration, Public Health and Medical Laboratory Science; while Elizade University got NUC’s nod to run full-time Postgraduate programmes in LLM, M.Phil and Ph.D) in Law and M.Sc Architecture, and all the courses, based on the approval, are to begin with effect from the 2024/2025 academic session.

The NUC’s Acting Director of Academic Planning, Abubakar Girei, in a letter on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Dr Chris Maiyaki stated that the approval followed the consideration and subsequent approval of the reports and recommendations from verification visits by panels of experts on the readiness of the university for the proposed and now approved academic programmes.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olugbenga Ige, however, expressed the management’s excitement over the development, describing it as “a fitting icing on the cake of the efforts put into the preparations for the new programmes.”

According to him, the university has the human, material, and infrastructural resources necessary to teach the new programmes and produce graduates who would compete favourably with their peers globally.

Also, the Head of the Media Unit of Elizade University, Mr Williams Olufunmi, said the NUC’s approval was based on the outcome of the resource verification by a panel from the NUC that visited the university to assess the human and material resources.

Speaking on the development, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of AAUA, Mr Victor Akinpelumi, said the approved courses would commence from the 2024/2025 academic session.

Similarly, the Vice Chancellor of OAUSTECH, Prof Temi Ologunorisa, who also noted that the courses would start in the next academic session, stated that the NUC’s approval to launch these new courses is the culmination of a resource verification evaluation conducted by the regulatory body in July to confirm the institution’s preparedness to introduce the proposed programmes.

The Acting Director of Academic Planning in the letters addressed to the Vice-Chancellor on behalf of the Commission’s Acting Executive Secretary, Dr Chris Maiyaki said the approved courses included Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Economics, Public Administration, Public Health and Medical Laboratory Science.

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