NO MORE! Non Graduating Students in Unimaid.
The Vice Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Prof. (Alhaji) Mala Mohammed Daura in a media chat with journalist over the weekend disclosed that there will be no room for students who appoint themselves as permanent ambassadors of faculties, and would not want to graduate, stressing that the university has innovated a new and dynamic strategy to handle professional and permanent students in the institution.
He pointed out that the university has identified among other things, several students who claim permanent admission and are not willing to graduate, he further concluded that the management would no longer allow such students to stay beyond their constitutional academic period as prescribed in the rules and regulations of the university. the VC, whose tenure is still up to the minute, has resolved to enforce rules and regulations guiding studentship even as he maintained that the move was designed to sanitize the system.
He also noted with kin interest that the management has overtime, tolerated this behavior of recycling students by allowing them to move from one department/faculty to the other in Unimaid.
“This means that when a student is admitted, he or she must have a maximum period for graduation. If such student could not graduate within the specified time for the course, the student can only be allowed to only stay for two years more, the law says if your course is four years, the maximum year you can stay is six and if you do not finish up the programme, you will be shown the way out, that is the situation now and there is no permanent student again,” – Prof Daura.
Prof. Daura also noted that the institution which was initially established to address the problems of tetiary education for students in the North Eastern states has fulfilled its mandate but noted that the vision of its founding fathers has been manipulated over time.
The VC, stated that the management is ready to make sure those students who are not ready to graduate give way for the serious ones because UNIMAID is one of the six universities selected for special intervention project by the Federal Government, as such the university will not afford to loose such an opportunity, and once these projects are executed successfully in the six universities in the country, they will have similar modern equipments to compete with any international standard, and will not need to travel out for any analysis. The project is being handled by Education Trust Fund of Nigeria, ETF.
Yes… If they don’t want to graduate, Prof will kick them out! But in UDUS the duration of stay has always been fixed as 6years for Science and other 4year courses and 7years for Agriculture and the rest of the 5year courses.
Nice.
(His is good news because it will at least address the issue of indecency and increase crime rate. No more room for sit tight student. More measures prof.
At least it will add to the credibility of the school.