By YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos-
Management, staff and students of Plateau State University, Bokkos were highly elated and expectant as a team of accreditation panel from the Nigerian University Commission (NUC) arrived at the school on Friday.
The 8-man Panel of the National Universities Commission NUC is in the school for the assessment of three programs for re- accreditation.
The Public Relation Officer of the University, Mr John Agams, who disclosed the visit of the NUC team in a statement on Friday, noted that the team would examine Mass Communication, Geography and Biochemistry programmes of the institution.
The statement said, “The panels were received on a courtesy call by the Vice Chancellor Professor Yohana Daniel Izam and Management of the University before proceeding for the accreditation exercise”
The statement quoted the Vice Chancellor as saying: “The visit is a peer review exercise aimed at promoting academic excellence, quality assurance and health status of programs being undertaken for better results and acceptances”.
Representative of the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Mrs. Ukaego Maureen told the Vice Chancellor that the exercise is a quality assurance mechanism to ensure that the University’s programs meet global best standards that would produce graduates that are competent and can compare favorably with their counterparts from other universities.
Speaking on behalf of the Panels, Chairman of the Geography team, Professor Philip Phil- Eze from the University of Nigeria Nsuka said the essence of their coming is not to intimidate the University but to look at the programs objectively without compromising the established threshold.
Other members of the two Panels include: Professor Mala Galadima, from Adama Modibo University, Yola, Professor Adedeji Aderemi, from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife and Umar Lapai representating the National Universities Commission.
The Biochemistry Panel has Professor Femi Agboola from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife as Chairman, with Professor Muntari Bala from Bayero University, Kano, Professor James Omale, Kogi State University and Mrs Ukaego Maureen the representative of the National Universities Commission as members.
The three programmes undergoing re-examination are Biochemistry, Geography and Mass Communication which had interim accreditations during NUCs visit in 2018.
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