The National Universities Commission (NUC) has scrapped crapped sub-degree diploma programmes in the Nigerian University System (NUS).
The Commission also called on universities to start winding up such programmes.
The NUC said such programmes were no concern of the universities but that of polytechnics urging them to develop their research base while working assiduously to improve the quality of the graduates it produces.
In a statement issued on Monday, NUC said, “All the universities are now to develop and implement an Institutional Research Policy; and, as a matter of urgency, establish a Research Administration Directorate, to be headed by an academic, not below the rank of a Professor; with appropriate human and material resources to run an Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (OIPTT) or Office of Technology Commercialisation and Industry Relations (OTCIR).
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