The University of Sussex in collaboration with the National Universities Commission is organizing a 5-Day intensive professional development course in Abuja from 25th – 29th September, 2017
The Honourable Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has said that “the Senate and Academic Board of each institution is hereby allowed to exercise its autonomy to determine the parameters for the process and selection of candidates in addition to the results of the UTME.”
The Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Adamu A Rasheed, met with a delegation from the Ghanaian Ministry of Education, led by Prof. J. S. Djongmah, which is in charge of the country’s National Accreditation Board and National Tertiary Education Agency, on an understudy of the workings of the NUC.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on an indefinite strike accusing the Federal Government of failure to redeem the terms of agreement signed in 2009. The strike commenced on Sunday, August 13th 2017 following an emergency National Executive Council meeting of the union in Abuja.
The Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), at its 19th Convocation last Thursday inducted Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, mni, MFR the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), and four others as Fellows of the elite organization.
The National Council of Education (NCE) has ratified the return of History and Religious Studies into the Basic Education Curriculum of Nigerian Schools