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Almost all departments reported one major deficiency or the other in the CCMAS.

Apart from Departmental and General Studies (GES/GST) courses, the 70% CCMAS has left out all other Faculty or University courses like Engineering Mathematics for Engineering students, Statistics for Science students, Philosophy and Sociology of Education courses for education students, etc. “For example, there are no Chemistry courses for students of B. It added that “many important components of university academic programmes were completely phased out in the new 70% CCMAS and the 30% “local content” is insufficient to remedy the lacunae.” The union also listed inadequacies of the CCMAS, including the failure of the NUC to inform universities of the planned revision of the BMAS, “making university Senates to become mere spectators in their own affairs.” “Based on this and other observations, the UI Senate decided that submissions made by various departments, reflecting the desirable contents, be submitted to the NUC”. For instance, at the Special Meeting of the University of Ibadan (UI) Senate held on 16th June 2023, it was observed that “the ratio of 70 to 30 per cent recommended does not permit the exhibition of the uniqueness of disciplines across institutions”. In 2022, NUC said it already developed the CCMAS to replace the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) –the curriculum guide for Nigerian universities, which had been in use since 2007.ĪSUU wrote: “However, some university Senates did not hide their displeasure with the ongoing efforts to impose CCMAS on Nigerian universities by the NUC. The union further described NUC’s action as an “aberration to the Nigerian University System.” About CCMAS It said the new benchmark was imposed on the institutions and called for an urgent review. However, in what it described as an imposition, ASUU said NUC failed to carry along relevant organs of the university system. The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) has criticised the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) recently introduced by the National Universities Commission (NUC).īased on the law establishing it, the university regulatory agency is empowered by Section 10(1) of the Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions) Act, Cap E3, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, to set the minimum standards for all universities and other degree awarding institutions in Nigeria, and conduct the accreditation of their degrees and other academic awards.

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