Nigeria: Senate Pledges Support for Noun - AllAfrica.com

Funmi OgundareLagos

With the support of the senate commission on education, National Open University of Federal Republic Of Federal Republic Of Nigeria (NOUN) would achieve greater high that would ensue to the overall development of Nigeria .

The Acting Frailty Chancellor of the University, Prof. Vincent Bustle Tenebe have said.

Tenebe, who made this comment during the visit of the President on Senate Committee on Education, Senator Joy Emordi to the institution's caput business office in Lagos , said the university would set up a council with the purpose of generating revenue.

He noted that the Senate Committee had appropriated a sum of N1, 499,524,300 in 2006 for working capital undertakings but unfortunately the undertakings were never presented at the Federal Soldier Executive Council (FEC).

The situation, Tenebe said have caused the establishment an inability to pay for contracts already commenced, its inability to commence work on many survey centres all over the state such as as Damaturu, Calabar, Gombe and Markurdi.

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In his words, "We shall not be able restitute the Abeokuta survey Centre because the ministry stopped the Ogun state authorities from renovating the Centre in that, the sum, of N113,213,818 was already included in the 2006 noun working capital awaiting the federal Executive Council (FEC) consideration and approval", he said.

In her response, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, SenatorJoy Emodi promised to throw her weight behind the undertakings adding that without the National Open University (NOUN), the state would not be able to ran into up with the Education For All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the federal government.

I am really impressed with what I have got seen so far. We desire to be portion of the success narrative because of its strategical importance. For us to undergo this, it is in the involvement of the development of instruction in Federal Republic Of Nigeria ", she said. Emordi who commended the establishment for some of its applaudable undertakings such as as establishing a farm in Kaduna , was conducted unit of ammunition to see some of its installations on ground.

UoP spares colleges with problems

PUNE:
Institutions attached to the University of Pune which have got more than than one
college be given to work the state of affairs by having a full-time chief at one
college and showing the same individual as officiating principal at the other
college. The full issue
evoked strong reactions at the Senate meeting on Wednesday after one of its
members, Atul Bagul, moved a proposal urging that the university should stop
entertaining any correspondence, supplications for behavior of examinations and allied issues,
made by colleges that were operating for more than than a twelvemonth without full-time
principals. "The UoP have no
system to verify whether a peculiar principal is full-time or officiating
person and whether his assignment is approved or non-approved," said Normality M
Kanawade. "Several officiating principals are working without approval. The
university is extending grants to colleges that neither have got mental faculties nor
principals," he added. Another
Senate member, Chintamani Ghate said that professional establishments like Law
College have got echt job in determination qualified people to fill up the post. "The
issue cannot be generalised," he said, citing such as institutions' attempt to seek
candidates through advertisements. Another member suggested freedom to
colleges that have got started the procedure of appointing full-time principals. Senior member Nandkumar Nikam
said, such as freedom cannot be granted unless the college aptly turns out attempt to
fill in the principal's post. "Many establishments simply do
not issue assignment orders to campaigners approved by UoP panel. Many others
restrict their advertisements to local
dailies." Declaring the show
cause move, vice-chancellor Narendra Jadhav said, "We will do allowances to
colleges with echt troubles for not meeting the norm. However, wilful
neglect of the same by the directions on fragile evidence is simply
unacceptable." "At least
conventional arts, scientific discipline and commercialism colleges should not give alibi of
inability to happen suitable candidates. I can understand jobs faced by
technical professional institutions," Jadhav added. The Senate have decided to
appoint a three-member panel, led by Students' Social Welfare Board head Sambhaji
Pathare, to analyze the legality of introducing centralised admittances for the
post-graduate science courses of study like Meter Sc, MCA, Masters in biotech et al. "The panel will submit its
report in adjacent two hebdomads and we will take the same to the direction council,"
Jadhav said. It further
appointed a one-man fact-finding committee of S.I. Patil on the issue of UoP
non-teaching staff standing sureties to depository financial institution or recognition society loans and
facing cuts from their wages at the case of the support federal agency that is
out to retrieve the loan money in lawsuits of default by the original loan seeker. Bagul had moved a resolution
seeking Senate directives to the university's finance section to stop
affecting such as cuts unless there were specific tribunal directives. However, respective members said
that such as directive can't be legally tenable. Instead of passing the resolution,
the Senate opted to take a short letter of the same and launch a fact-finding exercise.