Okebukola made the assertion while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of the Eighth Convocation and honorary award of doctorate degree of Caleb University, Imota, Lagos.
He said the current NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, was on a revatilisation mission to improve quality in the university system and enhance standards.
According to him, the standards turned out yearly by the Commission are richer and higher in terms of scope than the previous year.
Varsities lack facilities to support visually impaired persons –Okebukola
The National Coordinator, JAMB Equal Opportunity Group, Prof. Peter Okebukola, has said that most Nigerian universities lack the right facilities to support visually impaired people.
Okebukola said “We expect that our universities should have the physical and emotional environment that is supportive of these candidates. But most of our universities don’t have the facilities to support visually impaired people.” on the sidelines of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for Special Candidates held recently at the Distance Learning Centre, University of Lagos, Akoka.
Calling on the Federal Government to keep supporting JAMB in terms of the methodology for improving the conduct of the UTME for visually impaired candidates and in other ways .
Noting that 320 visually impaired admission seekers took the 2018 UTME in Lagos, Okebukola also said there was an improvement in the conduct of the examination in terms of logistics.
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Education Quality: The hard choices we cannot sidestep – Okebukola
Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Chairman of Council, Crawford University and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Caleb University, Professor Peter Okebukola has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari on the need for quality teachers, adding that to reconstruct the shattered education mirror, there are hard choices we cannot sidestep.
Okebukola, while delivering convocation lecture on Reconstructing the Shattered Education Mirror: Hard Choices We Cannot Sidestep at the McPherson University said: ‘’Between 1965 and 1970, Nigeria contributed the highest in Africa to the international literature in science, engineering, medicine, social sciences and arts.’’ He posited that two major factors conspired to trigger off what is now regarded as the tipping point for poor quality. The first, he noted was the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which brought in its wake, the devaluation of the naira, adding: “More or less overnight, the money available to educational institutions especially universities depreciated by about 200%.”
Source : Vanguard