The National Universities Commission (NUC) has begun
the process of headcount of academic and non-academic staff, programmes and
courses in Nigerian universities with a view to streamlining data for effective
management of the system.
The data collation would also involve lecturers of
all cadres, including professors and courses of study in the Nigerian
University System (NUS).
Executive Secretary of the commission, Professor
Abubakar Rasheed, who disclosed this to journalists on Wednesday in Abuja at the
opening of a one-day meeting of directors of academic planning in the
universities, said the move was to enable the commission to have accurate data for
the system.
He said: “This data would include enrolment in the
universities; the number of students in the system, the number of those studying different
programmes, the number of female or male students, and how many of them are studying
engineering.
“We are also interested in getting a data on the number
of lecturers in the system; their activities, as well as the number of those
with doctoral degree and the number of trainee academics.
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