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...For a better society... Tuesday, July 27 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Opinion Features Politics Columnists Sports Business Money/Market Industry Insurance Energy NUC blacklists UI, 7 other varsities ERASMUS ALANEME, Abuja EIGHT universities have been barred by the National Universities Commission (NUC) from admitting students into various programmes following their failure to meet the quality assurance mandate of the commission. Based on this, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) would not issue letters of admission to candidates who have applied to such programmes in the affected universities, beginning from the 2004/2005 academic session. They are Delta State University (DELSU) Abraka, University of Ado-Ekiti, University of Ibadan (UI), University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), University of Jos (UNIJOS), Abia State University, (ABSU), Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUTECH) and University of Calabar (UNICAL). Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Peter Okebukola, who dropped the bombshell, said universities with programmes that were or have been denied accreditation are to stop admitting students into such programmes until the deficiencies which earned them the denial of accreditation were remedied. For DELSU, the university was adjudged deficient in Accounting, Banking/Finance, Business Administration, Marketing, English language, French, Forestry and Wildlife Management and Geology while UI was affected only in Igbo Studies. University of Ado-Ekiti deficiencies are in French, Civil Engineering, Electrical Electronics Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Library Science, Education/Library Studies, Igbo/English, Social Studies and Government were programmes affected in ABSU. UNIABUJA was deemed deficient in Computer Science and Statistics, UNIJOS African Traditional Religion, UNICAL, Special Education while ESUTECH has Education/Integrated Science, Food Science and Technology being affected. The embargo will be in force until the universities remedied the deficiencies, the NUC scribe said. Prof. Okebukola explained that denied accreditation means that a programme lacks the minimum human and material resources for the training of quality graduates." Asserting that a denied programme can be likened to a fake drugs factory that churns out products that are injurious to the health of the citizenry, Prof. Okebukola noted that graduates of such programmes end up being poorly trained, thereby constituting severe danger to the economy. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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