(NOUN) announced the list of requirements for postgraduate students.

National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has reported the rundown of necessities for postgraduate understudies.
This is contained in an announcement by its executive of media, Malam Ibrahim Sheme, in response to reports that a few understudies have not gradated even in the wake of taking every one of their courses.

It said in accordance with NUC's Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for Nigerian colleges, the base pass stamp for every single postgraduate course is a "C", which is a "credit" and conveys a review purpose of 3 (in clinical/pharmaceutical sciences, it is a "B").

'Regarding the graduation prerequisites for most projects, an understudy is required to have earned a base Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.00 and a Total Credit Earned (TCE, which means the summation of the considerable number of courses enlisted and PASSED) of 30 preceding they might be articulated "graduated" by the college", it read.

"For proficient projects like the MBA, the TCE is far higher. Notwithstanding CGPA and TCE, postgraduate understudies are correspondingly anticipated that would have satisfied other scholastic necessities like passing every one of the courses enlisted, especially the center courses.

"For instance, a postgraduate understudy must pass the Good Study Guide (GST707/807), which is an early on course for an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) understudy, and so forth. A postgraduate understudy can't, for instance, fizzle a center course like Research Project, Research Methodology, and so forth., and hope to be graduated despite the fact that he/she has met the base TCE and CGPA for the program.

"While the mantra of the present University Management is to make NOUN "more NUC than NUC" itself, the University isn't uninformed of the way that in the developmental years of the college, some of our operations were not appropriately lined up with the administrative directs of the NUC and in that capacity a portion of the postgraduate understudies might not have been legitimately educated on the degree granting rules for the projects they connected for.

"We are aware of this and steps are being taken to, initially, sufficiently sharpen the understudies who were given affirmation with impact from the 2016 first semester on the need to completely follow the NUC BMAS and, besides, to think of a legitimate methodology that would guarantee that more established understudies who are gotten up to speed in the framework because of their failure to meet the base graduation necessities are obliged.

"Let us get straight to the point that the last would be finished remembering the need to not dilute the nature of the degrees and authentications of the National Open University of Nigeria.

"In such manner the Board of the School of Postgraduate Studies is currently rethinking the instances of understudies in this classification on a case-by-case premise, and its ultimate conclusion would be pondered on the floor of the University Senate."