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The Executive Secretary of NUC and KWASU's team consisting of the Pro-Chancellor, Alhaji Saidu Isa, OFR, the KWASU Provost of the College Engineering and Technology, Professor Leo Daniel and I, I am happy to announce to you all the great news that the National Universities Commission has approved to send an accreditation team to KWASU's Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Program from May 21 to 24, 2017. This news is a crown on the recent approval that KWASU got from NUC to run a full mode of Aeronautical and Astronautical Degree program as the first University to earn such a permission in Nigeria. Other undergraduate degree programs receiving accreditation visitation from May 21 to 24 are History, Human Kinetics, Special Education, and Statistics. These are four programs that currently have Interim accreditation status.
Second great news is that KWASU received the results of the most recent accreditation visit by NUC, and has now earned FULL Accreditation in Public Administration, Full Accreditation in Zoology and Interim Accreditation in Chemistry. In this extremely difficult economic period in our nation and with the ongoing tough impact it has on KWASU, these favorable accreditation news is God's continued grace on KWASU.
NUC has also approved a resource visitation, set for May 9, 2017, to several KWASU academic programs: Agricultural Economics (M.Sc. and PhD), Crop Production (M.Sc. and PhD), Christian Studies (PhD), Islamic Studies (PhD), Public Health (B.Sc.), Environmental Health (B.Sc.), Computer Science (PDG, M.Sc., PhD), Statistics (PDG, M.Sc., PhD), Animal Production (M.Sc., PhD), Accounting (M.Sc., PhD), Finance (M.Sc., PhD), Economics (M.Sc., PhD), Arabic Language (PDG, MA, PhD), English Language (PhD), Mass Communication (M.Sc.), and Political Science (PhD). Please give our colleagues in these programs and departments your total support as they prepare to receive the NUC delegations on May 9, 2017.
The University has continued to move forward with strength and determination to achieve the World-Class standards. This academic year is soon coming to an end with the ongoing End of Rain Semester Examinations 2017. The news of the recent stampede during the CBT examination at the e-library was wrongly presented in social media as a student riot on our dear campus. It was painful that many students lined up for a long period under the sun waiting patiently for their turn to write the CBT examination and one student was treated by KWASU Health Services for fatigue. While The University prepares to purchase more computer systems in its next budget year to increase the capacity for CBT exams on campus in terms of student population that can write the exam at once, I have directed that never before should the Centre for Innovative Technology approve proposals for CBT exams beyond its capacity. In future, no exams, including CTB exams, should extend beyond 6.30pm which is the normal daily final exam period on campus (the 3.30pm-6.30pm examination slot). Yet, ladies and gentlemen, in all of this difficulty, KWASU students remained law abiding and disciplined and nobody rioted as fraudulently reported in some quarters!
I like to thank all our students involved in writing CBT examination this Semester for remaining obedient to their University and for understanding that KWASU is a project-in-progress to greatness and to world-class, and that such difficulties whenever they show their faces must be solved together and in a united front.
I like to thank all KWASU students that are directly involved in CBT examination this year. I thank the KWASU Examinations Committee under the able leadership of Dr. AbdulRafiu Mope Isiaka, the Student Representative Council (SRC), the Centre for Innovative Technology (CIT), the Students Affairs Unit, the Office of the University Safety, and all other KWASU personnel involved, for working together to ensure that the problems encountered were easily resolved and that this year's CBT ended very successfully. Your University is very proud of you!
KWASU has now permanently changed KWASU's Convocation from First Saturday in June to the Second Saturday of June of every year, and therefore this year's Convocation will be June 10, 2017. Please mark this date in your diaries and note similar dates as Future Convocation day of your great University.
I thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing you around.
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