The Federal Government has directed that all specialized universities are to stick to their core mandates, which they were set up to carry and desist from running programmes which have no bearing to their foundation.
Specialised Universities are universities set up to pursue specific courses/programmes to steer the need of manpower in a particular sector of the economy.
Some of these specialized institutions include Universities of Agriculture, Universities of Technologies, Universities of Medicine, amongst others.
The Federal Government said it has observed that these institutions have derailed from their statutory responsibility, thereby running programmes that are antithetical to their mandates.
Government noted the unfortunate situation where Universities of Agriculture offer programmes in Law and management courses such as Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration among others.
According to a statement on Sunday by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the Head of Media of Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, as if that was not enough, some institutions change the nomenclature of some of the courses to read for instance Banking Engineering, Accounting Technology, among other names.
Benjamin added: “This is an aberration and should be stopped with immediate effect.
“In view of this ugly development, the Hon Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to delete all such courses on its portal and all candidates desirous of sitting for the 2017 Universities Tertiary Matriculations Examination are advised not to be hoodwinked into such programmes as they are illegal and are not provided for in our brochure.

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Source: theEagleonline.com.ng

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