The event will be the eighth annual convocation ceremony of the university.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Abdalla Adamu, disclosed this at a press conference on Tuesday at the institution’s headquarters, Jabi District, Abuja.
Mr Adamu said as a weapon of mass instruction, people are now accepting Open Distance Learning (ODL) as a way and system of self-training.
He said following President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent December 7, 2018 to the National Open University Amendment Act, graduates of the university will henceforth participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
He said its law graduates can also go to the Nigerian Law School.
Mr Adamu said the Act allows the National Open University to operate as other universities in Nigeria.
He said NOUN also has the same power and functions and the same administrative structures as other universities, thus eliminating discrimination against its products.
“Negotiations have started between NOUN and agencies responsible for NYSC and Law School. We are also willing to accept whatever conditions are given to accept our students in Law School and NYSC.”
The vice-chancellor said NOUN gives hope to the hopeless in Nigeria in the pursuit of university education.
“It is only NOUN that gives opportunity to prisoners to study, while at the same time serving their jail terms.
“Presently, we have more than 400 prisoners who are studying under NOUN. There is also a particular prisoner who was sentenced to life imprisonment, but he is undergoing his PhD studies. Very soon we will engage him as our facilitator.”
Mr Adamu also revealed that a former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, receives N40,000 annually as an allowance for being a facilitator of the university.
“Mr Obasanjo’s allowance is N40,000 a year and he is happy being our facilitator. He has an office in our Abeokuta Study Centre, where we attached to him two students of Christian Theology.”
Chukwunonso Nomeh, an inmate of the Enugu Maximum Prison has reportedly emerged as the best post-graduate student at Special Study Centres of the National Open University, NOUN.
The spokesperson of the Nigeria Prison Service in Enugu State, Chukwuemeka Monday announced Nomeh's academic achievement in a statement issued on Friday, January 12.
Monday said Nomeh who was convicted and sentenced in 2010, gained admission into the open university for Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme.
The authorities of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN have announced that the institution is planning to increase its admission to one million students.
The Chairman of the University's Governing Council, Prof. Peter Okebokola said this at the Council meeting in Abuja on Friday, August 31, 2018.
According to Okebukola, the open university currently admits 450,000 students.
He said
"the new council would work with the Senate of the university to double enrolment to one million through the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in the next couple of years.
“We have about 450, 000 for now but more importantly for us is that the quality of delivery of NOUN programmes will be significantly enhanced that in another two years, graduates from NOUN will be the best in Nigeria.
“We intend to pick and work with 10 programmes from the university to achieve this goal.”
The university council Chairman added that students seeking admission into the NOUN would not write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to get enrolled but would be registered within the system of JAMB.
After bagging Ph.D. in Christian Theology, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has returned to National Open University of Nigeria [NOUN] as a lecturer and has already inspected his office space at the Abeokuta Study Centre on Tuesday.
This was disclosed in a statement by the institution’s Director, Media and Publicity, Mr Ibrahim Sheme.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, had earlier appointed the former president as a facilitator after he bagged a Ph.D. in Christian Theology in January from the institution.
A facilitator is a part-time academic coordinator for students in the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system which open universities operate.
The Director of the Abeokuta study center, Prof. Ibrahim Salawu, said the office allocation became necessary, following his appointment as a facilitator in January.
Salawu, who led Obasanjo and other members of staff on a familiarisation tour of the center, said
“I am very pleased to have a former President of Nigeria as a colleague in the academia.”
Obasanjo expressed satisfaction at the office space allotted to him and promised to work for the progress of the university.
National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has announced the list of requirements for postgraduate students.
This is contained in a statement by its director of media, Malam Ibrahim Sheme, in reaction to reports that some students have not gradated even after taking all their courses.
It said in line with NUC’s Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for Nigerian universities, the minimum pass mark for all postgraduate courses is a “C”, which is a “credit” and carries a grade point of 3 (in clinical/pharmaceutical sciences, it is a “B”).
‘In terms of the graduation requirements for most programmes, a student is required to have earned a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.00 and a Total Credit Earned (TCE, meaning the summation of all the courses registered and PASSED) of 30 before they may be pronounced “graduated” by the university”, it read.
“For professional programmes like the MBA, the TCE is far higher. In addition to CGPA and TCE, postgraduate students are similarly expected to have fulfilled other academic requirements like passing all the courses registered, particularly the core courses.
“For example, a postgraduate student must pass the Good Study Guide (GST707/807), which is an introductory course for an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) student, etc. A postgraduate student cannot, for example, fail a core course like Research Project, Research Methodology, etc., and expect to be graduated even though he/she has met the minimum TCE and CGPA for the programme.
“While the mantra of the current University Management is to make NOUN “more NUC than NUC” itself, the University is not unaware of the fact that in the formative years of the university, some of our operations were not properly aligned with the regulatory dictates of the NUC and as such some of the postgraduate students may not have been properly informed on the degree awarding rules for the programmes they applied for.
“We are mindful of this and steps are being taken to, first, adequately sensitise the students who were given admission with effect from the 2016 1st semester on the need to fully comply with the NUC BMAS and, secondly, to come up with a justifiable modality that would ensure that older students who are caught up in the system as a result of their inability to meet the minimum graduation requirements are accommodated.
“Let us be clear that the latter would be done bearing in mind the need to not water down the quality of the degrees and certificates of the National Open University of Nigeria.
“In this regard the Board of the School of Postgraduate Studies is in the process of re-examining the cases of students in this category on a case-by-case basis, and its final decision would be deliberated on the floor of the University Senate.”
In an amendment bill passed to law by the Senate, students of the National Open University are now allowed to participate in the National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) and also able to attend Law school.
The Senate panel stated that the amendment would bring the National Open university at the level of other universities and to remove the perception of the public about the university in respect of the word ‘correspondence,’ which gives the impression that the university is not a full-time university and, as such, seen as part-time.
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“These two concepts – correspondence and part-time – significantly affect the way the public views the programs run by the university. This has been the reason why the Law graduates of the school are not admitted into the Nigerian Law School as well as the reason for the non-inclusion of the graduates of the university into the National Youth Service Corps scheme”.
“Secondly, to include lnformation and Communication Technology as another means of providing tuition towards the advancement of learning throughout Nigeria. The National Open University, as currently run, depends critically on virtual learning and students’ individual research, hence, the need for improvement and introduction of helpful learning tools as presented by lCT. This will further deal with the challenge of limited access in the tertiary education sector.”
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has paused admissions into the law programme of the National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN), the NUC’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Julius Okojie, made it know to the media.National Universities Commission (NUC) Suspends Admission Into NOUN’s Law Programme.
Okojie open up the information at an intuitive supper with newsmen on Thursday that the ban would be set up pending the determination of issues with the Council on Legal Education (CLE). The CLE has tirelessly refused NOUN’s law graduates from being offered admission into the Nigerian Law School.
The council has contended that the educating and investigation of law was clinical and it can’t be done by correspondence.
“This matter is being tended in light of the fact that it is within us, CLE and the college.
“In the meanwhile is stop new admission into that programme with the goal that they don’t have a build-up; we are resolving the issue.
“I should say that the law programme in National Open University (NOUN) was endorsed by the NUC; it is our obligation.
“At the point when CLE thought of the possibility of no part time law, NOUN did not think about law as part time programme by their mode; so they didn’t stop the system.”
As per him, NOUN’s law programme is not considered as part time as there is no need studying in the event that one won’t go to law school. He asked CLE to concede NOUN’s law graduates and give the school its amount of students they could accept.
Okojie affirmed that Nigerian students in the Diaspora were changing to nearby institution in view of Forex emergency as well as for enhancing standard of institution instruction.
We apologize for the lateness in delivery of this message. This is to inform the public and newly admitted students of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) that the 16th Matriculation Ceremony has been re-scheduled to hold on Saturday, 30th of July 2016.
You are advised to complete your registration process ahead of the ceremony.
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