The National Universities Commission (NUC), has given the Kwara state University, Malete, the go-ahead to offer 2 new courses and introduce 11 new post graduate programmes, Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, who is the institution’s Ag. Director, University Relations, disclosed in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Tuesday.
The statement added that the approval was contained in the letter sent to the Vice-Chancellor which was signed by the Acting Director of Academic Planning of the NUC, Abubakar Girei, on behalf of the Acting Executive Secretary of the Commission.
The university noted that two new courses will be offered while eleven postgraduate programmes have been introduced.
‘The approved two new courses are B.HIM Health Information Management and B.Sc. Development Studies while the postgraduate programmes include LL.M and Ph.D. in Common Law, LL.M. and Ph.D. in Islamic Law, and M.LIS and Ph.D. Library and Information Science.
The others are Ph.D. Human Kinetics, Ph.D. Special Education, M.Sc. Medical Laboratory Science, Master’s degree in Public Sector Accounting, and Master’s degree in Development Finance.
The letter stated that the programmes are to be run in a full-time mode and are to commence from 2024/2025 academic session’ the statement noted.
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Aliyu also submitted that the news of the approval in question made the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh to be over the moon.
He (the VC) also commended the state government for the support in achieving the feat while appreciating the steadfastness of staff of the institution for the readiness to take on the new programmes and contribute more to human capital development-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
