UNIABUJA Accreditation has no Time Frame: Okojie
The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC),
Prof. Julius Okojie, says there is no time frame for the accreditation
of courses for the University of Abuja School of Medicine.
He made this known at the opening of a three-day National Stakeholder’s meeting on the Nigerian Research and Education Network in Abuja yesterday.
He said that although the students had been clamouring and protesting for the accreditation of the courses, the NUC must follow due process to ensure a credible accreditation.
The Executive Secretary reiterated the commission’s commitment to ensure that graduates were well equipped and could therefore compete with their counterparts in the world.
Prof. Okojie had in the wake of the protest by the University’s medical students blamed the University’s former Vice Chancellors, Prof. Nuhu Yaqub, for initiating engineering and medical programmes without approval.
The suspension of Engineering, Veterinary, Agriculture and Medical students in April 2012 by the Federal Ministry of Education over non-accreditation has led to crises in the institution.
Okojie says the latest development followed NUC’s discovery during inspection visit that the university has failed to equip its community clinic which is a basic requirement for medical examination.
He said that as a result, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, refused to allow the medical students to sit for their final examination.
Most of the students, NAN learnt, had spent between seven to eight years without moving to the next level and unable to write the MBBS professional examination.
Engineering students of the university protested in November 2012, over the issue and this led to the university’s management, in collaboration with the NUC early this year announcing the transfer of engineering students to five other universities in the country.
He made this known at the opening of a three-day National Stakeholder’s meeting on the Nigerian Research and Education Network in Abuja yesterday.
He said that although the students had been clamouring and protesting for the accreditation of the courses, the NUC must follow due process to ensure a credible accreditation.
The Executive Secretary reiterated the commission’s commitment to ensure that graduates were well equipped and could therefore compete with their counterparts in the world.
Prof. Okojie had in the wake of the protest by the University’s medical students blamed the University’s former Vice Chancellors, Prof. Nuhu Yaqub, for initiating engineering and medical programmes without approval.
The suspension of Engineering, Veterinary, Agriculture and Medical students in April 2012 by the Federal Ministry of Education over non-accreditation has led to crises in the institution.
Okojie says the latest development followed NUC’s discovery during inspection visit that the university has failed to equip its community clinic which is a basic requirement for medical examination.
He said that as a result, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, refused to allow the medical students to sit for their final examination.
Most of the students, NAN learnt, had spent between seven to eight years without moving to the next level and unable to write the MBBS professional examination.
Engineering students of the university protested in November 2012, over the issue and this led to the university’s management, in collaboration with the NUC early this year announcing the transfer of engineering students to five other universities in the country.
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