RUN OBTAINS FULL ACCREDITATION

by Busola Odusola

All the academic programmes of the Redeemer’s University (RUN) have obtained full accreditation status by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

The fourteen programmes visited by the NUC in March 2012 were fully accredited. They include Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Marketing, Insurance, Biochemistry, Industrial mathematics, Industrial Chemistry, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Social Works.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof Debo Adeyewa, while breaking the news to members of the university community gave all the glory to God for the full accreditation status granted to all the academic programmes of the university.

Prof Adeyewa also expressed his appreciation to the Visitor to the university, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, members of the Board of Trustees and the Governing council for their support before and during the period of the accreditation exercise.

He also appreciated the staff and students of the university. He commended their roles they played during the accreditation exercise. The other programmes that had obtained full accreditation status before the 2012 exercise include History and International Relations, English, Theatre Arts, Actuarial Science, Microbiology, Physics with Electronics, Psychology and Mass Communication.

Prior to this development as published in RUN Chronicle 2012, only seven programmes had full accreditation while 11 had interim accreditation. The breakdown of the courses and their correct accreditation status in 2010 are as follows : Accounting 73%, Actuarial Science 73%, Banking and Finance 73%, Business Administration 76%, Marketing 76%, Economics 78%, English 92.8%, Theatre Arts 95.9%, Mass Communication 83%, Political Science 74.7%, Psychology 74.7%, Sociology 74%, Biochemistry 79.6%, Industrial Mathematics 78%, Microbiology 82%, Physics  with Electronics 84%, Industrial Chemistry  78%.

However, NUC in October, 2010 had published in the Guardian newspaper that 14 of the university’s programmes were denied accreditation. The publication had generated fear and controversy.

The pioneer VC, Prof Oyewale Tomori revealed that the report NUC gave the university initially was different from what was published in the Guardian. The NUC had written to the school privately but Prof Tomori requested that they should go back to the media to repair the university’s damaged image.

The first step the university management took was to make the true version of the report known to stakeholders who were present at the family forum organized by the university.