The Vice Chancellor, Benue State University, BSU, Makurdi, Msugh Kembe said the institution has achieved full accreditation of 35 programmes in the last four years under his watch.
The VC disclosed this on Monday while briefing newsmen at the Senate Chamber of the University, to mark the fourth year of his Five year tenure as Vice Chancellor of BSU.
Kembe, a Professor of Statistics, said the university presented 37 programmes for accreditation saying 35 out of the number had full accreditation while two had interim accreditation.
He expressed enthusiasm over the international accreditation of M.Sc. and PhD Food Chemistry and M.Sc. Post-Harvest Food Engineering adding that the Faculty of Law also got full accreditation for the first time since its establishment over 20 years ago.
He recalled that while running for the office of the Vice Chancellor, he had promised to run an inclusive administration that is open to members of the university community particularly on issues that would bring about administrative best practices and strengthen academic programmes of the university.
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He noted that he also wanted to ensure successful acreditation of programmes, improve quality of service delivery, ensure transparent conduct and handling of examinations, timely processing and release of examination results among others and expressed happiness that his dreams are being achieved.
He highlighted some projects completed under his leadership to include a water treatment plant and its concrete road, 506 bed space students’ hostels, Biology, Vocational and Technical Education building, Faculty of Arts Extension building, among others.
The VC, who is also the current Chairman of Vice Chancellors of State-Owned Universities in Nigeria, however, said the school is challenged by inadequate funding, irregular payment of user charges by students as well as lack of private interventions in the development of infrastructure on campus.
He called of private individuals and organizations to partner with the institution for development of student hostels among others.
The VC also stated that the school has also been successful in stemming social vices in the school saying, in the past, some students dressed like pornography stars saying “with the introduction of a dress code, a lot has changed and we do not have any case of sex for marks in the school.”
