OAU 2013/14 POSTGRADUATE ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

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Postgraduate education at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU is administered by the Postgraduate College in accordance with academic policies established by the University’s senate and the Postgraduate College Board, a standing committee of Senate.

The Postgraduate College is headed by the Provost who is also the Chairman of the Postgraduate College Board , that is constituted of the Provost, the Deputy Provost, 4 elected representatives of Senate (including the Provost), 2 representatives from each Faculty, the University Librarian and the College Secretary. The Departments, the key operational units, are linked to the Postgraduate College through their respective Departmental and Faculty Postgraduate Committees.

Postgraduate studies and research at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU started in 1964. The first postgraduate programme was established in Pharmacy, one of the foundation faculties and the faculty best placed to mount a postgraduate programme because of its inheritance of considerable infrastructure from the Pharmacy School of the erstwhile Nigerian College of Arts and Science.

Indeed, the second convocation of the University in 1967 witnessed the award of the first and lone Ph.D (in the Animal Science) was awarded in 1976. Today, the University has a postgraduate student enrollment of approximately 2,500 and offers postgraduate programmes in all Faculties, comprising 16 Postgraduate Diplomas, 106 Masters (including professional degrees), 32 Master of Philosophy and 80 Doctor of Philosophy degree programmes.

OAU over 9,000 graduate alumni constitute many of the nation’s professionals in many disciplines, including government officials, leading industrialists and prominent researchers and scholars in many Universities.

Requirements for admission
A general requirement for admission is a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, Letters, Philosophy or Science or an acceptable equivalent from an approved University. An academic standing of a minimum of second class lower division or a grade point average of B (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) is required for admission to Masters degrees: a second class upper division for MPhil: and an MPhil or Master’s degree with research thesis in appropriate field and at least 60% (B+) weighted average in the Masters coursework for admission to Doctorate degree.

The Postgraduate programmes available are:
a. Postgraduate Diplomas and Certificates
b. Masters degrees
c. Masters with coursework, long essays/reports – MSc, MA, LLM, MEd, MFA & including Professional Masters – MSc, MA.
d. Masters with coursework & research thesis – MSc, MA
e. Master of Philosophy (MPhil) with coursework & research thesis.
f. Doctorate (Ph.D).

How to and When to Apply

Application for admission must be completed on the online forms supplied by the University, which may be obtained from the PG College website.

Requests for application are advertised by the University about June every year. Admission is conducted once (Harmattan semester) every year to the Humanity- based disciplines and twice to the Sciences.
Admissions and Registration

A student is not officially registered for classes until the entire registration procedure is completed each semester. A request for deferral of admission must be made in writing within 3 months of admission and approved by senate on the recommendation of the Postgraduate College Board.

Enrollment and Residency Requirement

Part- time academic enrollment is available at professional Master level and at Doctoral level for those with good educational reasons for so doing. A graduate student is expected to enroll for each regular academic semester (unless an official leave of absence has been granted by the postgraduate Board) until all requirements for an advanced degree have been completed.
Academic Supervision

Graduate work is supervised by at least one formally appointed graduate supervisor in each academic unit with an advanced degree programme.
Academic Disqualification

A student may be disqualified by Senate as a result of any of the following:

1. Non- registration for 2 or more consecutive semesters
2. Unsatisfactory academic progress
3. A weighted semester coursework average grade less than B (50%)
4. Failure (grade less than 45%) in more than two courses in any semester
5. Failure in any repeated course irrespective of weighted grade average
6. Exceeding the duration or approved extended duration of study
7. Concurrent enrollment for more than one postgraduate programme in the University

Financial Assistance to Students

Several types of financial assistance are available to outstanding students. These include postgraduate fellowships, doctoral research grants and inducement allowance to all academic members of staff undergoing postgraduate training.

Other Graduate Support Facilities On Campus

- University Library
- Central Science Laboratory
- The Health Center
- University Bokshop
- National Center for Technology Management (NACETEM)
- Center for Energy Research & Development (CERD)
- Regional Center for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS).
- African Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education.

BREAKING!...LECTURER ARRESTED AS KOGI SPIRITUAL LEADER FOR BOKO HARAM DENIES POLICE CLAIMS...WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH?

Lecturer, 4 other suspects paraded as Boko Haram members  

Nigeria’s Department of State Services said it uncovered a Boko Haram cell in the central Nigerian state of Kogi and arrested five persons, including a university teacher.

Miss Marilyn Ogar, the Deputy Director, Public Relations Department of State Services, claimed in Abuja that the suspects were allegedly plotting to launch violent attacks in Igalaland in Kogi.

She said the don, identified as Muhammed Yunus, taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Kogi state University, Ayingba.



Ogar, who presented the suspects to newsmen, said that three of the suspects were arrested in a mosque in Zuba, FCT, while two others were arrested in Jos and Kogi respectively.

She said one of the suspects, the lecturer, was the spiritual leader and recruitment coordinator while others were head of operations/instructor, chief courier and foot soldiers in Kogi.

“We want to enjoin all Nigerians to be vigilant and continue to cooperate with security agencies through the provision of useful information of suspicious activities within their immediate environment.

“The war on terror is still on; this service, in collaboration with other security agencies, will not rest on their oars until we rid our society of criminality.



Ogar urged parents, who sent their children for Islamic teaching after school, to be very careful of the people they chose as their teachers.

She said they should take time to investigate the teachings so as to ensure that their children were not being taught what the parents did not practise.

The lecturer, who was alleged to be the spiritual leader/recruitment coordinator of the group, denied knowing anything about the sect but admitted that he held several preaching sessions.

“ I have never been a member of Boko Haram for one minute in my life, I even preach against them,” he said.

Other members confessed to be members of the sect and that they were on their way for training in Maiduguri when they were arrested at Zuba.

One of the suspects said he joined the group in May and was employed by the sect on a salary of N50,000 per month.

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WHY ARE "EDUCATED PEOPLE" THE WORST ENEMIES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA?...WHY MUST ASUU CONTINUE TO BE EDUCATION POLICE TO ARREST THEIR ATTENTION?

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After ASUU …

THERE is a paradox governments have  built around education — they are spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around education are not being resolved. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike is only one of many matters that are dogging education.

Government’s supposed interests in negotiating with ASUU, the speed being applied, and the uttermost neglect of other aspects of education confirm the diminishing importance that governments attach to education.

ASUU’s case is exceptional, in that governments appeared concerned. When the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, went on strike, it took almost three months before governments started talking to the union. The issue remains partially resolved.

With the ASUU strike, the failure of governments and their programmes are obvious. Governments sign agreements they do not intend to keep. ASUU is on strike over a 2009 agreement. Governments want to re-negotiate implementation of a four-year-old agreement.

They also know that the negotiations for a new agreement are due. We have governments that plan for immediate needs, if they ever do. They are exhausting themselves over ASUU strike as if meeting ASUU’s demands would resolve the challenges that our education faces, among them irrelevant curricula.

How do governments spend billions of Naira they budget annually for education? Bureaucracy consumes the bulk of the money. Duplication of agencies that manage education is the biggest cost centre in our national education management. Governments are running up new costs.

New higher institutions are being built with emphases on physical structures. Laboratories, libraries and research centres that they require to be centres for meaningful academic engagements are available in inadequate numbers.

It is absurd that governments — the owners of the universities — would need an ASUU strike to determine the status of the facilities in universities.

What plans do governments have for education? How would they tackle sustainable funding so that we are not soon back to another wave of strikes in a matter of months?  Would governments ever consider education important enough that it should run without disruptions from strike?

There would be no easy solutions. Many of the federal agencies on education just drain resources that should have been invested in improving learning facilities. States imitate the federal waste, making education one of governments’ biggest cost centres, without commensurate value for the expenditures.

Governments can save costs by eliminating duplication in the functions of education agencies. There should be clearer lines about the roles of governments at different levels of education. The Federal Government should not be dabbling into primary school education.

Finally, the future of education is too important to be left to haphazard funding. Governments should provide resources for education beyond ASUU’s demands.

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TEACHER BEHAVING BADLY?...FLOGS 4-YR OLD CHILD TO DEATH "FOR BEING STUBBORN"

AKURE — DETECTIVES in OndoState have detained a primary school teacher, Alade Adebayo, for allegedly flogging to death a four-year-old female pupil Elizabeth Wanogha.

The deceased pupil was a student of a private primary school, Falaye Memorial Nursery and Primary School, located at Fanibi area in Akure metropolis.

The  teacher, according to report, accused the deceased of being stubborn in the class. He was said to have beaten the girl to a state of coma.

Cries from other pupils in the class reportedly attracted other teachers who rushed to the scene where they found that the girl had fainted.

She was said to have been rushed to a private hospital and was admitted but reportedly died later.

Police authorities, however, said that the pupil died two weeks after the beating by the suspect.

The father of the deceased, Mr Wanogha lodged a complaint at the Fanibi Police station, alleging that his daughter died  as a result of the injuries sustained from the severe beating by her teacher.

Following the complaint, the teacher was arrested for interrogation.

Contacted, the Police image maker, Wole Ogodo, confirmed that the teacher had been arrested.

Ogodo however said that people should not jump into conclusion that it was the beating which took place about two weeks earlier that led to the death of the pupil.

He pointed out that the autopsy will determine the cause of the pupil’s death.

Ogodo said that the suspect is being quizzed at the state Criminal Investigative Department, SCID.

He explained further that the deceased  was hospitalised immediately after the beating but died  two weeks after.

Ogodo  said that investigation into the death of the pupil continues adding that the findings would be made public.

The father of the deceased pupil insisted that the teacher should be prosecuted for murder.

Mr Wanogho who lived at Adebowale street Fanibi  vowed that the matter would be pursued to a logical conclusion to serve as deterrent to wicked teachers who vent their anger on innocent pupils put in their care.

He appealed to NGOs to take the matter up by ensuring that it was not swept under the carpet.

The proprietor of the school declined comment on the incident.

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NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY...MORE INFO FOR INTENDING CANDIDATES

Checklist of Items

• Acknowledgement Form


• JAMB Slip


• Examination Card


• 2 Passport Photographs


• Bank Payment Slip/Confirmation Page

66TH REGULAR COURSE - form on sale from Nov. 1st 2013 - Feb 28th 2014

Before you proceed please read the following instructions carefully.

Written Entrance Examination for 66th Regular Course

General Instructions:

The following instructions apply to candidates seeking admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy for the 66th Regular Course.

PART ONE ? USE OF ENGLISH.

The use of English is compulsory for ALL candidates

PART TWO ? CHOICE OF SUBJECTS

A. CANDIDATES FOR ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.

Candidates for Arts and Social Sciences are to answer questions in any THREE of the following subjects, which must include the candidate?s chosen course.

• Mathematics


• Economics


• Geography


• History


• Government


• Biology (Compulsory for Psychology Applicants)

B. CANDIDATES FOR ENGINEERING.

Candidates for Engineering are to answer ALL questions in the following subjects:

• Mathematics


• Physics


• Chemistry

C. CANDIDATES FOR THE SCIENCES.

Candidates for the Sciences are to answer all questions in any THREE of the following subjects, which must include the candidates chosen course of study.

• Mathematics


• Physics


• Chemistry


• Biology

EXAMINATION CENTRES

S/N     State        Examination Centre
1     Adamawa     Government Day Secondary School Opposite HQ 23 Armd Bde, Yola
2     Akwa-Ibom Community Secondary School, Aka Offot, Uyo
3     Bauchi          Army Children School, Bauchi
4     Benue           Command Secondary School, Makurdi
5     Ebonyi          Command Secondary School, Abakaliki
6     Edo                Nigerian Air Force Primary School, Benin
7     Enugu           Army Day Secondary School, Abakpa Barracks, Enugu
8     FCT               Command Day Secondary School, Lungi Barracks, Abuja
9     Gombe         Govt Science Secondary School, Jeka Da Fari, Gombe
10    Imo              Holy Ghost College, Owerri
11    Kaduna       Command Secondary School, Kaduna South
12    Kaduna       Nigerian Defence Academy, Permanent Site, Kaduna
13    Kaduna       Nigerian Defence Academy, Old Site, Kaduna
14    Kano            Army Day Secondary School, Bukavu Barracks, Kano
15    Lagos           Command Children?s School/Command Day Secondary School, Ikeja Cantonment, Lagos
16    Lagos           Navy Secondary School, Ojo Town, Lagos
17    Ondo           Army Day Secondary School, Akure
18    Oyo              Command Day Secondary School Odogbo, Ibadan
19    Plateau       Command Day Secondary School Rukuba Barracks, Jos
20    Rivers         Navy Secondary School, Port Harcourt
21    Sokoto         Army Day Secondary School, Sokoto

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