A prison inmate will soon
enroll for a doctorate programme in the National Open University of Nigeria
(NOUN), the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, has said.
Adamu
disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at the opening of the 53rd Meeting and 30thAnniversary of the Committee of Deans
of Post-Graduate Schools (CDPGS) in Nigerian Universities.
According
to Adamu, prison inmates and juvenile who are willing and qualified are given
free education as part of NOUN’s corporate social responsibility.
“We
have 84 study centres including the prisons; NOUN is the only university that
allows prison inmates totally free education because that is the opportunity
they have to learn.
“Right
now, we have somebody who has finished his master’s degree and he is about to
embark on PhD and he is still behind bars.
“We
have juveniles who, for one reason or the other, are caught up and locked up.
“NOUN
is the largest university in the West African sub-region and one of the biggest
in the world with over 200, 000 students,’’ said the NOUN vice chancellor.
He
urged the committee to fashion out a mechanism for improving the global ranking
of Nigerian universities.
The
vice-chancellor expressed regret that Nigerian academics hardly uploaded their
research content on the Internet, hence the poor online visibility of Nigerian
universities.
Adamu
said that unless a university established a strong online presence, it would
not be ranked.
He
said that NOUN complied with the National Universities Commission (NUC)’s
guidelines and had all its programmes duly accredited and wondered why the
institution’s products were denied postgraduate admission. Read more
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