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NUC Expresses Concern Over Varsities' Curricula From Juliana Taiwo in Abuja Executive Secretary of the National Universities Comm-ission (NUC) Professor Peter Okebukola has said the Nigerian public is expressing concern over the nation's universities curricula stressing that many believe that Nigeria's university products are misfit to socio-economic and cultural needs of the society. Okebukola made public this worry at the workshop on merger of revised Minimum Academic Standards (MAS). He said, "Public perception of the average graduate is one who lacks basic knowledge and skills in the disciple of training. He/she is often regarded as mediocre and poorly trained. While numerous factors are implicated in the output of the system by way of quality of graduates, one key factor is the curriculum." He said current MAS, which shaped the curriculum, was developed in 1989 and by 2001, a set of benchmarks were developed, which were intended to provide framework for curriculum revision. He said a national needs assessment survey to find out those aspects of the curriculum that needed to be adjusted to relevance was first conducted, and comprehensive entrepreneurial studies curriculum for all undergraduates in the Nigerian university system was developed before the workshop. The workshop, comprising 300 senior academics (mainly professors) in all the disciplines and vice chancellors from Nigerian Universities are to review the report of the needs assessment survey of labour market expectations of graduates of the Nigerian University system, revise the MAS for all disciplines offered produce Benchmarks and Revised Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) document for each discipline and incorporate entrepreneurial studies into BMAS for all undergraduate programmes. In his remarks, NUC Director of Academic Planning and Research, Professor Ignatius Uvah described 15 years as long time in a rapidly changing world with explosion in knowledge and changing expectations of the national and global labour market. "The world economy is rapidly changing with knowledge and skills supplanting physical capital as the main sources of national growth and development. Much of this process is driven by ICT, with increasing contribution of small and medium scale enterprises to GDP and employment generation of most progressive nations", he said. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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