The National Universities Commission has urged universities in the country to develop a robust internal quality assurance system, saying that it remains the only sustainable means to enhance the quality of graduates produced.
NUC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Dr. Suleiman Yusuf, disclosed this at the opening session of a three-day national multiplication training on Internal Quality Assurance & Curriculum Development for Anglophone West Africa Higher Education Institutions at Osun state.
Dr Yusuf noted that to ensure quality, the commission would continue to encourage universities to develop the capacity of all categories of their staff.
According to him, NUC since its establishment in 1962, apart from ensuring the orderly development of Nigerian universities, had been working to prescribe a minimum academic standard for all the fourteen disciplines available in the highest institutions in the country.
Speaking earlier, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The Redeemer’s University and the President, West Africa Anglophone Quality Assurance Network, Prof Kayode Adekeye, said universities need constant checks by using the quality of graduates, research work and services rendered to identify areas that required further improvement.
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