{"id":4275,"date":"2015-02-05T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2015-02-05T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T08:46:17","slug":"national-universities-commission-nuc-abolishes-pass-degree-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4275","title":{"rendered":"National Universities Commission (NUC) Abolishes Pass Degree &#8211; VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nuc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4276\" alt=\"nuc\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nuc.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Universities Commission ( NUC) has abolished the award of Pass Degree in Nigerian Universities with effect from the 2013\/ 2014 academic session.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Abdullahi Zuru, the Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2014\/2015 matriculation of 4,133 students of the institution.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>\u201cThis has far reaching implications on the grading system of students in universities.<br \/>\n\u201cThis means that the minimum pass mark for courses in the universities will now be 45 per cent, that is, D-grade, instead of the previous 40 per cent which was E-grade.<br \/>\n\u201cIt also means that the minimum class of degree to be earned by students will now be Third Class,\u201d <\/b><\/i>he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, no university student will henceforth graduate with a Pass Degree.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore enjoined the students to work hard to earn their stay in the university.<\/p>\n<p>The vice chancellor also advised them to shun extremism, bigotry, violence, ethnicity, political intolerance and religious prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Zuru commended the Federal Government and its agencies for fully transforming the landscape of the university.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Dean of Students Affairs, Adamu Aliero, warned that any student that flouted the rules and regulations of the university would be sanctioned.<br \/>\nHe assured the students that the management of the institution would continue to accord top priority to their welfare.<\/p>\n<p>In a remark, Aminu Wushishi, Chairman of the caretaker committee of the students union government, assured that the students would be law abiding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Universities Commission ( NUC) has abolished the award of Pass Degree in Nigerian Universities with effect from the 2013\/ 2014 academic session. Prof Abdullahi Zuru, the Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2014\/2015 matriculation of 4,133 students of the institution. \u201cThis has far reaching implications on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/nuc.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-16X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}