The Dis-accreditation of Some More Departments
in OAU
Just last year,
some aspirants of Law, Med. Rehab., Dentistry and Botany in Obafemi Awolowo University
(OAU) received SMSes from 55019 (supposedly belonging to JAMB (as that’s the
same number they received their generated code from when they were registering
for the 2018 UTME). These SMSes were sent to inform the candidates that their
choice of course/department in their chosen school was unaccredited by the
National Universities Commission (NUC), and they should change to another
institution or course. Then came the expected panic everywhere online and
offline by candidates and parents, everyone wanted to know the truth about the
dis-accreditation and what they should do next. Hence, this write-up I
published last year about how the departments lost their accreditation: OAU’S Law, Med. Rehab., Dentistry and Botany: The Dis-accreditation, and the Untold Truth About it All. One year later, some of these departments
are only still trying to get their department accredited again, and yet another
department (Business Administration) lost her accreditation again just last
week, and more departments (especially in the Faculty of Education) may be
facing the risk of losing their accreditation too sooner or later, due to
unavailability or inadequacy of the needed resources to stand as a department
offering such course.
The question right
now should not only be why are those departments losing their accreditation? But also, which department is the next to lose it? The reason for this question
is because I know very well that going by the NUC Benchmarks for universities, no
department in OAU is worth having an accreditation to offer their course, due
to lack of the needed resources—materials, facilities and humans, or the availability
of such resources in inadequate counts.
However, while
expecting the Faculty of Law and one or two more departments that have corrected
some things about what made them lose their accreditation last year to regain
the accreditation back soon, we also expect more departments to lose their
accreditation this year to follow the Department of Business Administration
that recently did. Also, we can only start wishing the 2019/2020 UTME applicants
who have chosen Business Administration the luck to get another course, as OAU does
not automatically consider applicants for another course different from the
course they have chosen; lest they have done some underground processing (“runs”)
on it, and unfortunately, most of these applicants wouldn’t know something had
happen to the department they are waiting to be admitted to. If you are one of
the candidates in this group, I advise you to get up and do something before it
is too late. I wish you all the best as you try.
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