It was a beehive of activities and presentations as Bells University of Technology, Ota played host to several accreditation teams from the National Universities Commission (NUC) who came to examine and test the efficacy of some of our courses being presented by the University for accreditation.
The teams, one for each course, started arriving on the campus from Thursday, 17th November 2002 up till Sunday, December 2022. The teams, comprising of seasoned academics and professionals each had a senior NUC staff as team secretary. Their mandate was to examine each course content, their compliance to regulations, the staff strength and quality, equipment, laboratories and other factors that are stipulated for quality knowledge delivery. It was a serious and dedicated academic ritual that keeps university education at the highest level possible.
The courses presented in this round of accreditation exercises were, Industrial Chemistry, Physics with electronics, Computer science and information Technology, Food Science and Technology, M.Sc Human Resource Management, M.Sc Accounting, M.Sc Finance, M.Sc Management and Master of Business Administration (MBA) each team were received by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jeremiah O. Ojediran, FNIAE, RE (COREN) MNSE, in his office.
The Vice-Chancellor in his characteristic amiable manner assured all the teams of the University’s readiness to cooperate and aid the completion of their tasks. He appreciated the teams severally for taking up the tasks which he termed as “a national duty to improve the University education system”.
After the arrival visits by each team to the Vice-Chancellor, they proceeded to beam their thorough searchlights on the individual courses; and they all, one after the other at different times, presented their initial findings at the exit meetings. These submissions turned out to be good and encouraging. All teams gave kudos to the management for strictly following the rules as laid down by NUC. Some teams also commend the efforts of the management in maintaining such a conducive environment that is kept clean and neat at all times.
Some other teams praised the high standard of books in the library, both in the physical and e-books while others commended the student-lecturer ratio which in some cases were even better than the minimum regulation. In all it was an encouraging round of initial reports which gives the high hopes that success with full accreditation is on the horizon.