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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rejected the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards prepared by the National Universities Commission.

The union said it was nightmarish, a threat to quality university education, and an erosion of powers of the university Senate in Nigerian universities.

A statement signed by the national president of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Friday, explained that it was inexplicable that NUC pre-packaged 70 per cent CCMAS contents were being imposed on the Nigerian University System, adding that university Senates, who are statutorily responsible for academic programme development, were left to work on only 30 per cent.

It stressed that there were growing concerns about the numerous shortcomings and gross inadequacies of the CCMAS documents.

“ASUU is not unaware that setting academic standards and assuring quality in the NUS is within the remit of the NUC. Section 10(1) of the Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions) Act, Cap E3, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, ens the NUC to lay down the minimum standards for all universities and other degree awarding institutions in the Federation and conduct the accreditation of their degrees and other academic awards.

“However, the process of generating the standard is as important (if not more important) than what is produced as “minimum standards”.

“In this instance, the NUC has recently, through some hazy procedures, churned out CCMAS documents containing 70% curricular contents in 17 academic fields with little or no input from the universities. The academic disciplines covered are (i) istration and Management, (ii) Agriculture, (iii) Allied Health Sciences, (iv) Architecture, (v) Arts, (vi) Basic Medical Sciences, (vii) Computing, (viii) Communication and Media Studies, (ix) Education, (x) Engineering and Technology, (xi) Environmental Sciences, (xii) Law, (xiii) Medicine and Dentistry, (xiv) Pharmaceutical Science, (xv) Sciences, (xvi) Social Sciences, and (xvii) Veterinary Medicine,” it read partly.

It stressed that many university s, though dissatisfied, were shying away from making public comments on CCMAS.

The statement revealed that, however, some university Senates did not hide their displeasure with the ongoing efforts to impose CCMAS on Nigerian universities by the NUC.

It read, “The CCMAS is a nightmarish model of curriculum reengineering. It is an aberration to the Nigerian University System. The CCMAS documents are flawed both in process and in content. There is no basis for the 70% “untouchable CCMAS,” which cannot stand the test of critical scrutiny of university Senates.”

However, it suggested that “NUC should encourage universities, as currently being done by the University of Ibadan, to propose innovations for the review of their programmes. Proposals from across universities should then be sieved and synthesised by more competent expert teams to review the existing BMAS documents and/or create new ones as appropriate.

“The difference here is the bottom-up approach, unlike the top-bottom or take-it-or-leave-it model of the CCMAS.”

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“The difference here is the bottom-up approach, unlike the top-bottom
Everybody just dey bring him own approach 😂 😂
Make una just dey play

Nigeria just have many issues. Some times you just don't know where to start from.

What matters is the improvement in the quality of what is currently been delivered!

ASUU was part of the whole process from start to finish.

The process is more important-
President Peter Obi

ASUU is part of nigeria education problems,

ASUU wahala too much, they were part of the process from the onset

ASUU may have a point or two but are still a huge bottleneck to good education.
The NUC is too stiff in my opinion and dictating 70% of courses is too high.

Lmao joke of an association

ASSU knows majority of its are too old to adapt themselves to new NUC proposed curriculum. All they want is salary increment, and not academic adjustment that will make life become more difficult for them to deliver. They want to continue to recommend their boring theoretical jargons to NUC. Any ASSU lecturer that can not adapt to new curriculum should be shown way out, no one is ready to listen to ASSU excuses that they are fighting for quality education. ASSU is not really sincere, they only want easy way out of teaching. Only salary increment makes them happy.

On part of NUC, it is not enough to recommend or enforce curriculum, qualified, competent and talented teachers that can transfer knowledge to students easily should be hired while those lecturers with merely academic title like professors, doctors etc that can't transfered knowledge to their students through simple teachings should be laid off and paid off. Those that can function in research areas with results should be retained for research only and not teaching.

What is the benefit of professors and Drs that can't transfer knowledge to students through simple teachings, and can't also do any meaniful academic research that will attract industries with minimal resources? Lay them off and pay them their retirement benefits instantly! Let's make our education system becomes more functional to help our growing population

Wahala pro max for students wey still dey school for Nigerian universities......It's just a pity, seeing how the Nigerian academic sector keeps dwindling on a daily basis.....One time go reach, dem go begin force children to go school as it is I'm some northern parts....

Las las,if you dey school in Nigeria, it's very necessary to have the japa mindset in the back of your mind,if not,your eyes go clear las las.

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Isn't it funny that the same of ASUU that prepared the 30% part are still the same people rejecting the CCMAS?

This is looking more like a power tussle than arguments for the quality of content in the new curriculum.

APC sha

Na one notorious thug dey head ASUU i have never for once heard that he accepted any recommendations from the government in his life.

From past government now to the new government.

His cup is now full, they should find a way and send him from that position.

ASUU is not fighting for students right they are only concerned about themselves.

They don't want stress life.

The entire education system is useless. The most useless of them all is the Nigerian philosophy of education. Our education is neither tailored to meet our peculiar needs nor implemented in the interest of the students.

As a professional educationist, I can boldly state that going beyond JSS3 in Nigeria is a total waste of time and resources

ASUU should calm down

There's nothing I hate like Nigeria Higher institution curriculum.
In Europe,US,Asia and even Some Africa countries, the curriculum start teaching the core and main rudiments of the course in question right from your first semester, first year till graduation but in Nigeria, they will carry all sought of irrelevant courses to load you and leave the main course you came to study.

Lol