The National Universities Commission, (NUC), has given a formal approval for the commencement of Medicine and Surgery and other medical programmes by the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA).
The university is expected to commence the programmes with effect from the 2020/2021 academic session.
The approval according to the Executive Secretary of the NUC, Adamu Rasheed, followed the recommendation of the panel of experts from the commission which carried out a resource verification visit.
According to the Commission, in the letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor, Joseph Fuwape and signed by the Director of Academic Planning, N.B Salihu, the resource verification was carried out by a panel of experts to the proposed medical program of FUTA with a view to assessing the human and material resources available for their establishment.
“I am directed to inform the Vice Chancellor that the Executive secretary has considered and approved the establishment of the Full Time mode of the Medicine and Surgery, MBBS programme to be run with effect from the 2020/2021 academic session,” the letter, seen by our reporter on Thursday, read in part.
FUTA was founded in 1981 by the Federal Government with the intent to create universities that specialised in producing graduates with practical as well as theoretical knowledge of technologies.
The resource verification team visited FUTA in February to ascertain its level of preparedness for the take off the School of Medical Sciences.
After what the NUC described as a painstaking assessment…
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