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… gets NUC approval for additional eight post graduate courses
By Kingsley Abavo, Benin
Edo State University Uzairue (EDSU) has announced dates for the commencement of second semester for the 2021/2022 academic session.
A statement issued by the Acting Registrar of the Institution, Habib Ekhalefo, said the school closed its first semester on Thursday, 14th April, 2022.
Students from 300 to 600 level are to resume for the 2021/2022 second semester tomorrow, Tuesday, 19th April, 2022.
While students in 100 and 200 levels are expected to be in campus for the second semester on May 5th, 2022.
Meanwhile, the University has gotten the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to run additional eight post graduate programmes.
According to a letter addressed to the Vice Chancellor of the University and signed by NUC’s Director of Academic Planning, Dr. N.B Saliu, the “Executive Secretary of the Commission has considered and approved the establishment of the full-time courses of postgraduate programmes, to be run in the main campus of the University with effect from the 2021/2022 academic session.
The courses approved are Accounting, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Other courses are Business Administration, Mass Communication, Public Administration and Medical Laboratory Science.
While Accounting got approval for Phd, the other seven departments were approved for Post Graduate diploma, Masters, and Phd.
It would be recalled, that the University had earlier gotten approval of the NUC to run post graduate programmes in Political science, History and International studies, Computer science, Microbiology and Biochemistry.
Edo State University, Uzairue is said to run an uninterrupted academic calendar in commitment to its motto of quality education for human development, as it was the first to use Anatomage table in the teaching of medical students in the country.
Also the first, to have deployed the use of the CANVASS Learning Management System in the teaching of its students.
