List of NOUN accredited programs by NUC

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The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, who made the announcement while releasing the outcome of the recent accreditation of the programmes of the National Open University of Nigeria, (NOUN), lamented that most universities deliberately flouts the existing rules of the operation of part-time courses.

The accreditation exercise, the first since NOUN commenced academic activities in 2003 was held between March 25 and 31 involved nine academic disciplines and 31 programmes, four of which obtained full accreditation status; 26 programmes or 83.9 secured interim accreditation while only one programme or 3.2 percent was denied accreditation.



The programmes with full accreditation include Agric Extension and Management; Hotel and Catering Management; Cooperative Management and Entrepreneurship and Business Management. Among those with interim accreditation included Mathematics; Mathematics/Computer Science; Environmental Science and Resource Management; Communication Technology; Data Management; Computer Science; Law; French and International Relations.

Others include English; Christian Theology; Islamic Studies; Criminology and Security Studies; Tourism Studies Peace and Conflict Resolution; Primary Education; Business Education; Early Childhood Education; Integrated Science; Physics; Chemistry and Biology, while Nursing was denied accreditation.

With the official release of the outcomes of the accreditation exercise, NOUN could go ahead and graduate students, admitting that the commission had strained working relationship with the previous management of the institution. His words: “Let me tell you something, the fact that we are just going for accreditation doesn’t mean that the programmes are very young, no, I told you that as from 2003, it is the mode of study. Some, I’m sure in the one or two years you will some people graduating, and good quality candidates whose degrees would be as good as the ones from the conventional universities.”

News credit: Guardian

Though i don't think its good news to the Nursing Dept.

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