The Senate, yesterday, said it would soon uplift the standard of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, through necessary legislations to enable it compete favourably and be at par with similar universities in the world.
The Senate position came as the Vice Chancellor of the NOUN, Professor AbdallahAdamu, asked the National Assembly to review the National Open University of Nigeria Act, to compel hosts of study centres undertake the responsibility of providing 80 percent of infrastructure as well as structural materials required for the establishment of such centres.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND, SentorJibrilBarau, stated this during a public hearing organised by his committee on the Bill for an Act to amend the National Open University Act, No 6 of 1983.
The bill seeks to provide for the inclusion of ICT as another means of providing tuition in the NOUN throughout Nigeria.
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