Accreditation: Fresh fears grip OOU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has raised fresh fear over possible withdrawal of accreditation for seven programmes being run by the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye Ogun State.

The eight courses likely to be affected, according to the state’s chapter of ASUU, are medicine, agriculture, biochemistry, engineering, sciences, geology, accounting and banking and finance.

The Chairman of ASUU in the university, Dr. Nasir Adesola, who expressed this fear in an interview with journalists at Ago Iwoye on Thursday, said that NUC had earlier denied five programmes in the institution accreditation.

The union called on the university management and the state government to urgently wake up to save the institution from further embarrassement.

The five courses that were recently denied accreditation in the university by the NUC are Economics, Mass Communication, Sociology, Psychology and Political Science.


Olusola lamented that the union had earlier warned the management on the need to save the programmes before the NUC hammer fell on them.

But regretably, he said, the management did not head the union’s warning.

He said, “That the university is sick is not in doubt, the recent denial of accreditation to five of our key courses by the NUC is a clear indicator. That we will not be able to admit new students into these departments from 2011 and at least for the next three years portends serious danger for revenue generation and job security.

“This development may only be a tip of the iceberg as underlined by the fact that we are due for institutional accreditation between December 2010/January 2011. Note that by the NUC specification, for a student population of 16, 000 (undergraduates only), we need an academic staff strength of 839 distributed across cadre, but with our present population of academic staff strength less than 400, it will be a miracle if we get up to 40 per cent of our programmes accredited.”
Source:punchng