NUC approves six programmes for NOUN

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The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved six academic programmes for the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). All the programmes were granted full accreditation.

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The programmes are Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Marketing, Public Administration, and Hotel and Catering Management.

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A statement signed by the Director, Media and Publicity of the university, Ibrahim Sheme, said the accreditation meant that NOUN now had the mandate to run these programmes for five years.

He said the approval was conveyed in a letter dated March 19, 2020 to the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, and signed by Maryam Sali, the NUC Director of Accreditation, on behalf of the Executive Secretary.

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NUC is saddled with the responsibility of accrediting academic programmes in all Nigerian universities and certificates issued to students admitted into unaccredited programmes are usually not recognised.

Sheme noted that the latest approval was sequel to the result of the NUC-organised accreditation visitation team to the university in Abuja in October/November 2019, adding that the result of the visitation showed an impressive score for each of the six programmes, ranging from 78.7 per cent to 97.4 per cent.

The statement noted that the VC was delighted with the approval, describing it as a proof of NOUN’s readiness to fulfil its obligations as a centre of excellence in the Open and Distant Learning (ODL) mode of education in Nigeria.

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