The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted full accreditation to six academic programmes at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State.
The FUOYE management announced this on Monday in a statement jointly signed by the Chief Information Officer, Mr Foluso Ogunmodede and Mr Wole Balogun, the Special Adviser on Media Matters to the university’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Fasina.
According to the statement, the approval followed the accreditation conducted by the NUC in March and April, on the six academic programmes of the university.
The six programmes that received full accreditation are Agriculture and Hospitality/Tourism Management in the Faculty of Agriculture, English and Literary Studies and Theatre and Media Arts Studies in the Faculty of Arts.
Others are Demography, Social Statistics and Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The statement reads: “(The) good news was conveyed to the management by the NUC in a letter addressed to the vice chancellor, Professor Abayomi Fasina, on August 2, 2021 and signed by the Director of Accreditation, NUC, Dr Mariam Sali, on behalf of the executive secretary of the NUC.”
The NUC added that the full accreditation given to the six aforementioned academic programmes status is valid for a period of five years.
The Accreditation Committee chairman of the university and deputy vice chancellor, Administration, Professor Shola Omotola, appreciated the vice chancellor for providing the required resources within a month of his assumption of office as the fourth substantive vice chancellor of FUOYE for the success of the exercise.