The Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Universities Commission(NUC) has finalised a new curriculum for Nigerian Universities. The commission had earlier inaugurated a committee of experts drawn from various disciplines in Nigerian Universities to create a new Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards for Universities and last week, the committee and NUC had converged for a face-to- face interaction, to finalize activities on the report.
During the meeting, held at the Idris Abdulkadir Auditorium, Abuja, the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, made it known that what used to be called the Minimum Academic Standards started way back in 1989, for 13 disciplines and largely prescriptive then and the review of the MAS curriculum by 2004, led to the evolution of the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards with other forms of review conducted in 2007.
Prof. Abubakar made it known that the curriculum being reviewed had the feature of NUC providing only 70 per cent of the compulsory courses, while the universities were to determine the balance of 30 per cent of the courses.
He added that the curriculum was being expanded from 14 to 17 disciplines, while at the programme levels, it increased from 188 to 238.
By Onigbinde Testimony
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