NUC verbally expresses universities have to meet certain requisites afore they can commence the programmes.
In a bid to elucidate the discombobulation that greeted the recent unbundling of Mass Communication as a course in Nigerian tertiary institutions, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has verbally expressed that the course was not scrapped but only broken down into seven units.
The NUC verbalized the course has to be divided into cinematography, media studies, public cognations studies, advertising, broadcasting, film and multi-media studies, development communication studies, information and media studies to enhance specialization.
On Friday, January 10, 2019, the commission’s spokesman, Ibrahim Yakassai, in an interview with Punch verbally expressed that universities had the liberty to commence the incipient programmes after securing NUC approbation.
“We have unbundled mass communication, but we did not scrap it. Any institution that wishes to retain it could, and those that wish to break it into different programmes can; there is no mystification.
“Any university that meets the criteria would just start. It is the university that would meet the requisites in terms of lecturers, laboratory; it is left for them to commence when they are yare.”
However, Yakassai verbally expressed the approbation of the courses is not automatic, integrating that universities have to meet certain requisites afore they can commence the programmes.
He additionally verbalized that breaking Mass Communication down into seven courses would offer tertiary institutions an opportunity to have more degree courses
