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th ISSN 0795-3089 16 January, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 3 NUC Collaborates with JAMB on Summit For Private Universities -Received Over 300 Applications in 17 years L-R: JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haaq Oloyede; Executive Secretary NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed and the Executive Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola he Executive Secretary, on Private Universities very soon Universities and the future of National universities with a view to discussing the myriad Higher Education in Nigeria as the Tcommission, Professor of problems bedevilling the growth 6 t h Convocation Lecturer of Abubakar Rasheed mni, MFR, has and development of private Fountain University, Osogbo, last disclosed that the commission universities in Nigeria and finding Saturday, the NUC Scribe said that would collaborate with the Joint solutions to them. the Summit would specifically Admission and Matriculation attempt to solve the problems faced Board (JAMB), to hold a Summit Delivering a paper titled Private by private universities in attracting AAllll IInnssiiddee FG Commited to Implementation of NUC Welcomes FGN/ASUU Agreement More Varsities Appoints Babalakin – Prof. Rasheed Chairman of Re-negotiation team Pg. 5 Pg. 7 16th January, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 3 Research, Deployment of ICT and Funding. Others were Student Enrolment, Governance and Staffing. On academic Programme focus, Professor Rasheed said, when the first batch of private universities came on stream, there were 25 federal and 12 state-owned universities in Nigeria, adding that it became necessary for some of the proprietors to modify some of the academic programmes and curricula to reflect the demands of the contemporary time in the industry, public service, economy and technology. These innovations, Prof. Rasheed delivering the Convocation Lecture at the Fountain University he said were duly accommodated by the BMAS prescribed by the students and mounting of new either written letters of intent or are NUC. programmes whether or not the about to do so within the next few BMAS for such programmes weeks, bringing the total to 322 in On Quality Assurance, the existed in the Commission. all. executive secretary said that the The Executive Secretary also indices drawn from the NUC revealed that the NUC had in the Professor Rasheed broadly accreditation exercise had clearly last 17 Years received applications mentioned some of the challenges shown that the quality of academic from more than 300 individuals, faced by the private universities to programmes, staffing, facilities and corporate bodies and faith-based include Academic Programmes infrastructure had continued to organisations on the establishment Focus, Quality Assurance, improve over the years with each of private universities. He gave a breakdown of the over 300 applications to include 68 private universities which had been licensed and are presently in operation, four were awaiting NUC Management's consideration, six had confirmation visit status while 26 had successfully concluded 1st Site Visit. He also disclosed that five proposed private universities had invited the Commission for 1st Visit, another 172 yet to invite NUC for the Visit, with 27 fresh applications awaiting interaction as well as 14 other Governor Aregbesola commissioning the Malam Yusuf Ali (SAN) Luxury Female Hostel prospective proprietors, who had donated by Malam Yusuf Ali (SAN) Page 2 MONDAY BULLETIN A Publication of The Office of The Executive Secretary 16th January, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 3 accreditation exercise. He noted followed by South East and South the University has been permitted that, student enrolment in private South with 12 private universities to mount postgraduate studies in the universities had become so low that each, with North Central having 11, academic programmes that were it was posing a serious threat to the while North East and North West successfully resource-verified. survival of those universities had two and one respectively. Approval has also been given for adding that the admission profile Justifying the reason for the the commencement of part-time through JAMB of some of private establishment of more private s t u d i e s i n s o m e d e g r e e universities indicated that some universities to increase the total programmes. The University is universities had resorted to the use number of universities in Nigeria, advised to base its enrolment in of pre-degree mode of admission to Professor Rasheed said that the these part-time programmes on the get student to enrol. United Kingdom with a population available resources not exceeding of 65.1million had 169 universities 20% of the corresponding full-time For funding, Professor Rasheed with 1:385,207 university enrolment.'' noted that this had remained the population ratio; Russia's 143 single most critical input in a million population had 316 In his address, the Pro-Chancellor private university venture as every Universities with 1:452,531; and Council Chairman Professor Is- other activity revolved around the Malaysia with 30.7 million had 153 haq O. Oloyede said that availability or otherwise of funds, universities with 1:200,653. universities since the early times adding that many promoters and h a d b e e n h a r b i n g e r s o f proprietors of private universities He added that South Korea had 146 d e v e l o p m e n t a n d s o c i a l including faith-based had grossly universities, 1:345,890 ratio with transformation, noting that as the fallen short of this component of 50.5 million population; Brazil with repositories of noble ideas that planning for a private universities. population of 209 million could sparked values and propelled boast of 2, 600 universities with the progress, the development that He said that academic staff cadre ratio of 1:80,384; Mexico's 128 many societies had witnessed were had particularly continued to million population had 1,341 predicated on the abundant quality remain a critical challenge of the universities with 1:95,451 ratio; human resources in or produced by Nigerian University System (NUS) Indonesia had 260 million universities. “The world had gone and private universities had always population with 1, 236 universities full circle today and in many parts depended to a large extent on the c o v e r i n g 1 : 2 1 0 , 3 5 5 a n d of our world, things fall apart fast public universities for this input Bangladesh with 162 million and the centre cannot hold, with and could hardly retain them on p o p u l a t i o n h a v i n g 1 , 2 6 8 “education” becoming increasingly full-time basis, advising the private universities with 1:127,760 ratio, lame in checking the excesses of universities to invest heavily in while Nigeria with a higher misguided with guided weapons. staff development by training population of 187 million having This is why faith-based universities young academics and retaining only 152 universities covering just have crucial roles to play in them while salary and condition 1:1.23 million. returning human beings to the part and conditions of service should be of decency of goodness that satisfactorily spelt out. The NUC Scribe said that ''the NUC religion advocates” he explained. is pleased to note the progress Giving the statistical data on the Fountain University has made since Professor Oloyede expressed distribution of private universities inception. To date, this University confidence that successive by Geo-political zone in Nigeria as maintains 100% Full Accreditation graduands will continue to serve as at 2017, Professor Rasheed status in the eleven academic the beacon of hope to their disclosed that South West topped programmes mounted in its three generations through the quality the list with 30 private Universities, Colleges. Within the last one year, training they had received stressing Page 3 MONDAY BULLETIN A Publication of The Office of The Executive Secretary 16th January, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 3 that they would also changed the graduands for the successful of Osogbo, his royal highness, the themselves and the world completion of their academic president of the Muslim Ummah of positively by virtue of drinking programmes calling on them to s o u t h w e s t e r n N i g e r i a from the fountain of knowledge, remain good ambassadors of (MUSWEN), Dr. S. O. Babalola, wisdom, development, faith and Fountain University and Nigeria the Prochancellor of Osun State virtue that fountain universities anywhere they might found University, Mal. Yusuf Ali, SAN as provides. He observed that the t h e m s e l v e s . H e e x p r e s s e d well as the renowned entrepreneur, future of university education is in appreciation to those who had Dr. Wale Babalakin among others. the private universities as they contributed to the success story of would continue to grow both the university including the The Breakdown of the First Degree qualitatively and quantitatively not governor of the state of Osun Award shows that 198 graduated, only in Nigeria but also across the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the out of which 17 bagged First Class world. governor of Sokoto State, Alh. Honours, 78 Second Class Upper Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Ataoja Division, 83 Second Class Lower Professor Oloyede congratulated Division while 20 graduated Third Class. L-R: Pro-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Oloyede; Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Rasheed; Mal. Yusuf Ali, (SAN); Governor Aregbesola; Chief. S. O. Babalola and Sheikh Ahmed Lemu Page 4 MONDAY BULLETIN A Publication of The Office of The Executive Secretary 16th January, 2017 Vol. 12 No. 3 FG Commited to Implementation of FGN/ASUU Agreement Appoints Babalakin Chairman of Re-negotiation team Minister of Education, Mal.