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NUC Approves Babcock University’s Open, Distance e-learning

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Babcock University Ilishan-Remo, has been licensed to run open distance and e-learning programmes in Nigeria.

By this development, the institution becomes the second of only two private universities among more than 78 and more than 90 Federal and State universities in Nigeria to be so licensed.

 
 
The approval is coming barely three months after the validated status recommended by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in conjunction with experts of Open & Distance Learning, according to the Nation Newspapers.
 
The NUC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Academics, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf, expressed pleasure at the approval for the Babcock University Centre for Open, Distance & E-LeDistancearning of Babcock University, BUCoDEL, to commence academic activities following due diligence. Prof. Mobola Sotunsa is BUCoDEL’s Director.
The Centre will now commence operations with

BSc Accounting programme via the ICT-Enabled Supported Blended Learning model of Open,  & E-Learning (ODL).

Addition of new programmes will be on individual programme basis, subject to NUC’s pre-assessment and approval.

The approval not only marks a significant milestone for Babcock as Nigeria’s premier private university but affirms the Centre’s preparedness to raise the stakes of education in Nigeria with the prerequisite facilities and resources to run ODL programmes professionally.

President/Vice Chancellor, Babcock University, Prof. Ademola Tayo, has consistently affirmed the determination to uphold the Babcock University institutional core values in the Centre’s operations of the Open, distance and E-Learning programme in Nigeria.

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