NUC Explains Suspension Of
Laboratory Science Course For
2015/2016 Academic Session
The National Universities Commission
(NUC) on Friday said that it...
suspended Medical laboratory
science courses for the 2015/2016
academic session to enable it take
stock of the programme.
The NUC Director of Academic
Standards, Dr Gidado kumo, gave the
explanation in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Abuja.
NAN recalls that students, who sought
to apply for the discipline in
2015/2016 academic year,
complained that it was not listed by
the Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board (JAMB).
Kumo said that JAMB removed the
course from its website for
2015/2016 session in compliance with
an NUC directive.
According to him, the NUC has
numerous unresolved problems with
the Medical Laboratory Science and
the Medical Laboratory Council.
“We decided as a commission whose
responsibility it is to oversee all the
programmes to stop the programmes
and take stock of the activities of the
programmes and the council across
Nigerian university system.
He described as illegal the directive
from the council for the
establishment of Medical Laboratory
Science faculties.
Kumo said that Medical Laboratory
Science should be a department
within the faculty of basic medical
sciences in the Colleges of Health
Sciences.
According to him, government may
not have the capacity to fund these
faculties as proposed because it will
amount to duplication and extra cost
for government.
“In addition, the council further went
ahead to produce a new curriculum
and circulated to universities for
adoption which was clearly outside
the jurisdiction of the council.
“Not forgetting also that in 2008,
there were many universities running
this programme without the approval
of NUC; some of them were run in
institutes.
He said that a comprehensive
auditing of the programmes were
conducted before they were closed
down and asked universities to take
the students to their main campuses.
The director said that NUC remained
the statutory agency of government
responsible for approval of courses,
approval of new faculties and
determination of the funding of
universities.
He said discussions with the council
were ongoing, adding that the
programme would be released once
all pending issues were sorted out.
(NAN)
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