THE Acting Director-General, National Teachers’ Institute, (NTI), Kaduna, Mallam Bashir Mamman has assured the students of Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) in the South West that their results will soon be released, saying all the issues delaying the release of the results have been resolved with the University of Ibadan (UI).
Mamman, who was represented by the institute’s Deputy Director (Test Development), Dr Ibrahim Bala, at a press conference in Ibadan said, “We are at the final stage of the exercise, which is the uploading of the students’ data on the university’s portal. As soon as this is concluded, all the results will be released.”
According to him, “with this development, all the students’ results in the zone will subsequently be released on time. As from the current academic session, no student results will be delayed since all the affiliation processes have been concluded with the university.”
Commending the students for their patience, he listed causes for the delay of the result to include: closure of universities due to Covid-19 pandemic, ASUU strike, affiliation processes including series of meetings, consultations and signing of MoU, time needed to process results and uploading the students’ data on the University’s portal (as in the case of UI).
The NTI boss stated: “The institute is committed to providing quality teachers for the country by training teachers while on the job. All the institute’s activities and programmes are made flexible and favourable to students. The delay in the release of the PGDE students’ results particularly that of the South West, is one of the institute’s hard times since its inception.”
Mamman explained that the institute runs Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and Bachelor’s Degree in Education (BDPs) in collaboration (affiliation with six Nigerian universities for the PGDE and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and University of Maiduguri for the degree programmes.
His words: “The Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) was at the initial stage affiliated with Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and later with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
“In 2017, the institute, after consultations with the relevant stakeholders and the desire to enhance quality, wide acceptance and accessibility to every interested Nigerian, decentralised the affiliation to six universities across the six geo-political zones.
This decision was taken after the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC). The Universities are: Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (North West), University of Maiduguri (North East), University of Ilorin (North Central), Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, (South East), University of Port Harcourt (South-South) and University of Ibadan (South West).
Earlier at a meeting held with the students and other stakeholders, the UI director of the Directorate of Affiliation, Professor Wole Akinsola, said that the results had passed through the relevant processes.
He said, corroborating the NTI boss, that the results would be released any moment from now.
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