The Goals of the National Universities Commission are:
- Attainment of stable and crisis-free University System.
- To work with Nigerian Universities to achieve full accreditation status for at least 80% of the academic programmes.
- To initiate and promote proficiency in the use of ICT for service delivery within the Commission and the Nigerian University System.
- Upgrade and maintain physical facilities in the Nigerian University System for delivery of quality university education.
- To match university graduate output with national manpower needs.
- To foster partnership between the Nigerian University System and the private sector.
The Functions of the Commission are:
- To advise the President and State Governors, through the Minister, on the creation of new universities and other degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria;
- To prepare, after consultation with the State Governments, the universities, the national manpower Board and such other bodies as it considers appropriate, periodic master plans for the balanced and co-coordinated development of all universities in Nigeria;
To lay down Minimum Academic Standards in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and to accredit their degrees and other academic awards; - To ensure that quality is maintained within the academic programmes of the Nigerian University System;
- To make such other investigations relating to higher education as the Commission may consider necessary in the national interest;
- To inquire into and advise the Federal Government on the financial needs, both recurrent and capital, of university education in Nigeria and, in particular, to investigate and study the financial needs of university research and to ensure that adequate provision is made for this in the universities;
- To take into account, in advising the Federal and State Governments on university finances, such grants as may be made to the Universities by the Federal and State Governments, private proprietors and by persons and institutions in and outside Nigeria;
- To undertake periodic reviews of the terms and conditions of service of personnel engaged in the universities and to make recommendations thereon to the Federal Government where appropriate;
- To recommend to the Visitor of a university that a visitation be made to such university as and when it considers it necessary;
- To act as the agency for channeling all external aid to the universities in Nigeria;
- To receive block grants from the Federal Government and allocate them to Federal Universities in accordance with such formula as may be laid down by the National Council of Ministers.
ES Tasks Professional Bodies Against Unhealthy Competition with NUC
The ES, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has advised professional bodies to desist from unhealthy competition with the NUC over the training of undergraduate students
ES Charges IUC Heads to Revive Centres
The ES, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, charged the Directors of the four Inter-University Centres in the country to work assiduously to revive the Centres
NUC Holds Sensitization Workshop on ICT Development in NUS
As part of its efforts towards the revitalisation of the NUS, the NUC, organised a one-day sensitisation workshop for VCs and DICTs of selected universities on the proposed French Development Agency (AFD) Support for the ICT Component of the Blueprint Project.
CoS to President Inaugurates Nigeria-UK Steering Committee on TNE
As part of efforts to accelerate the adoption of the TNE policy in the
Higher Nigerian Education System, a high-powered UK-Nigeria Steering Committee on
TNE was inaugurated by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof.
Ibrahim Gambari.
CCMAS Unveiled @ NUC Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
The NUC rolled out its drums to celebrate its 60 years of existence as the sole regulatory agency of
the Universities and other degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria, with the unveiling of a new
CCMAS for universities in
Nigeria.
ES Receives Polish Ambassador to Nigeria
A two-man delegation from Poland, led by the Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Her Excellency, Joanna Tarawska and the Alumni President Polish Institute, Dr. Nghargbu K’tso, visited the Executive Secretary, NUC
ES Inaugurates Two Committees to Check Excesses in NUS
The ES, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, inaugurated two committees namely-Committee on the Review of Submission on the Procedures, Criteria and Records of Professorial Promotion by some Non-Degree Awarding Institutions in Nigeria.
FG Takes Over, Renames David Umahi Varsity Uburu
The Federal Government of Nigeria has taken over and renamed the newly established King David Nweze Umahi University of Medical sciences Uburu, Ebonyi State.
NUC, WB Train Coordinators, Centre Leaders on SPESSE Project Delivery
The NUC, in partnership with the World Bank, organised a 10-day Train- the- Trainers workshop for Coordinators and Centre Leaders of the benefitting institutions of the SPESSE Project.












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