In a bid towards increasing the number of quality teachers in the country, the federal government has approved the establishment and immediate take-off of six new Federal Colleges of Education in each of the geo-political zones in the country.
As part of the repositioning and revitalisation of university education in Nigeria, the NUC has unbundled Mass Communication as a degree programme into several separate degree programmes,
The Executive Secretary, NUC, Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed mni, MFR, FNAL has debunked allegations that some staff of NUC were engaged in corruption during accreditation.
ABU, Zaria’s Africa Centre of Excellence in Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biotechnology under the auspices of the NUC signed an MoU with Nagasaki University, Japan, on Tropical Diseases.
The NUC and the TETFund have resolved to jointly host a National Summit on Research and Development (R & D) in the first quarter of next year.
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that government investment in the education sector through various interventions far outweighed budgetary allocations.