₦airaland Forum

ACCOUNTING 2009 AND 2010

N100,000 & 103,000 RESPECTIVELY

BUSINESS ADMIN 2009 AND 2010

N100,000 & 103,000 RESPECTIVELY

SCIENCE EDUCATION

MATHS. PHYSICS. CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY DEPT

N75,000 ONLY

APPLICATION FORMS INTO DLI PROGRAMMES IS OUT FOR A TOKEN OF N12,000 ONLY @ BANKS WITHIN UNILAG, UNILAG POST OFFICE, BOOKSHOP AND DLI FACULTY BUILDING,

AVAILABLE DEGREES ARE

MATHS EDUCATION
PHYSICS EDUCATION
BIOLOGY EDUCATION
CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ACCOUNTING

DIPLOMAS:

MASS COMMUNICATION
LIBRARY AND INFO TECH

GUD LUCK

the cert is the same with all other certificate irrespective of the programmes/faculty @ UNILAG, i wonder this kind of question.

DLI FORM 2010/2011 ADMISSION IS OUT AND SOLD FOR N12,000 ONLY AT BANK WITHIN UNILAG




Available degrees in DLI UNILAG includes

EDUCATION SCIENCES

Bsc Physics education
, Bsc mathematics education
Bsc chemistry education
Bsc biology education

MANAGEMENTS

Bsc accounting
Bsc business administration

DIPLOMAS

mass communication
library and information technology

check papers, postals, UNILAG WEBSITES for more on 2010/2011 admission requirement.
5 credits inclusive english and maths
candidate must be at least 21 years of age

the forn is out and it is sold for N12,ooo only at UNILAG and banks within campus

science courses are 6years while mgt are 5years, diploma are 2yrs




Available degrees in DLI UNILAG includes

EDUCATION SCIENCES

Bsc Physics education
, Bsc mathematics education
Bsc chemistry education
Bsc biology education

MANAGEMENTS

Bsc accounting
Bsc business administration

DIPLOMAS

mass communication
library and information technology

check papers, postals, UNILAG WEBSITES for more on 2010/2011 admission requirement.
5 credits inclusive english and maths
candidate must be at least 21 years of age

UNILAG DLI application form is out since aug 16th 2010!!!


Available degrees in DLI UNILAG includes

EDUCATION SCIENCES

Bsc Physics education
, Bsc mathematics education
Bsc chemistry education
Bsc biology education

MANAGEMENTS

Bsc accounting
Bsc business administration

DIPLOMAS

mass communication
library and information technology

check papers, postals, UNILAG WEBSITES for more on 2010/2011 admission requirement.
5 credits inclusive english and maths
candidate must be at least 21 years of age
See more

to get more info on DLI programmes visit our facebook fans page UNILAG DLI. Available degrees include: Bsc mathematics. Bsc physics. Bsc chemistry. BSc biology and Bsc accounting and bus admin. also diploma available in mass communication and library and info tech. duration of course is 5/6 years.

Application Form for DLI admission, leading to award of degrees in phy,chemistry; biology, acct$ math; bus admin and diploma in mass com; library science is out. form can be obtained online after payment of N12000 at any of UNILAG'S BANK wi thin d campus. check paper and postals for more details

UNILAG DLI application form will be out by oct/nov 2010, the school fee is 103k for the current year subect to review up/down for all new students, you can get more on prospective students @ www.unilag.edu.ng or www.unilag.edu.ng/dli also on UNILAG DLI facebook page.

Gud luck

According to the VC UNILAG, arrangements are now at advanced stage by the Distance Learning Institute (DLI) of the university to offer eight new programmes. The new programmes are B.Sc. Economics; Computer Science; Environmental Science; Nursing; Marine Biology; Fisheries; Microbiology and Public Administration. The new programmes would take off once they are approved by the University Senate, adding that the six existing programmes offered by the DLI have received full accreditation by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

existing Degrees are

MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
PHYSICS EDU
CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
BIOLOGY EDUCATION
ACCOUNTING
BUSINESS ADMIN


all are offered at the undergraduate levels

NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

(c) 2010 Vanguard. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


Tel: (01) 493 2660-3. Fax: (01) 493 2669. Email: vcunilag@unilag.edu.ng. URL: http://www.unilag.edu.ng. Executive Head: Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, Address: ,

DLI UNILAG DISPLAYS ADMISSION RESULT
Distance Learning Institute, University of lagos hereby displays the Result for the qualifying Examination into DLI for 2010/2011 Academic Session.check the university website for the List.

NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

(c) 2010 Vanguard. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


DLI students now go for NYSC once you are within the age range and DLI is not written on the cert anymore,

NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

(c) 2010 Vanguard. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


application for UNILAG DLI admission comes up from aug-2010 to jan 2011

Tel: (01) 493 2660-3. Fax: (01) 493 2669. Email: vcunilag@unilag.edu.ng. URL: http://www.unilag.edu.ng. Executive Head: Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, Address: ,

There are rumor and speculation that after completing the DLI degree programmes of UNILAG, that the certificate is embosed DISTANCE LEARNING, to dispel that, it is just a rumor filtered by either those who could not come to unilag tru dli or those who could not afford the fee.

the certificate is the same with every undergraduate in unilag
you do convocation same day with every other students e.g face to face student(full time), DLI, postgraduate, sandwich
you can go for NYSC for student who are not above 30yrs
for those who cannot go for NYSC due to one reason or the other, you will be issued NYSC excemption certificate which is the same as discharge cert.
DLI students are employer preference in term of labour market as they believe they have one profesional experience or the other
they receive lectures and write exams like every other undergraduate i.e they stay in the hostel on campus during residency.
DLI student are the most recognised student in UNILAG, most lecturer in UNILAG are DLI products.

If you are not clear about the above pls visit unilag campus @ DLI office or unilag student affairs dept for more clarification.

VIEW UNILAG VC AND NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COMMISSION COMMENT BELOW


NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

(c) 2010 Vanguard. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


URL: http://www.unilag.edu.ng. Executive Head: Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, Address: ,

There are rumor and speculation that after completing the DLI degree programmes of UNILAG, that the certificate is embosed DISTANCE LEARNING, to dispel that, it is just a rumor filtered by either those who could not come to unilag tru dli or those who could not afford the fee.

the certificate is the same with every undergraduate in unilag
you do convocation same day with every other students e.g face to face student(full time), DLI, postgraduate, sandwich
you can go for NYSC for student who are not above 30yrs
for those who cannot go for NYSC due to one reason or the other, you will be issued NYSC excemption certificate which is the same as discharge cert.
DLI students are employer preference in term of labour market as they believe they have one profesional experience or the other
they receive lectures and write exams like every other undergraduate i.e they stay in the hostel on campus during residency.
DLI student are the most recognised student in UNILAG, most lecturer in UNILAG are DLI products.

If you are not clear about the above pls visit unilag campus @ DLI office or unilag student affairs dept for more clarification.

VIEW UNILAG VC AND NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COMMISSION COMMENT BELOW


NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

(c) 2010 Vanguard. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


URL: http://www.unilag.edu.ng. Executive Head: Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, Address: ,

NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

(c) 2010 Vanguard. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).


Tel: (01) 493 2660-3. Fax: (01) 493 2669. Email: vcunilag@unilag.edu.ng. URL: http://www.unilag.edu.ng. Executive Head: Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, Address: ,

NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

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NEWS FLASH!!!
Distance Learning is Not Adult Education, Part Time or Sandwich Programmes - NUC

Jun 02, 2010 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- National University Commission, NUC, has said that distance learning method of education should not be seen as an adult or part- time education meant for older and busy people but a flexible means of learning for everybody irrespective of age or social status.
The Deputy Director, NUC, Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf made this assertion recently, while speaking on the " Open and Distance Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward for Dual-Mode Institutions", during the 2010 Open and Distance Learning Lecture/Seminar Series organised by the Distance Learning Institute of University of Lagos.
He said so many people misunderstood Open and Distance Learning, ODL to be adult education, sandwich and or part-time programmes. According to him, ODL is a strategy and alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university community and the general public on the potential of DL as an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in the provision of access to university education, to qualified candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions", revealed stressing that it was made worse because most Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily accessible and flexible that ODL was established to accommodate those who could not be admitted through the regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning neither was it a second learning or second chance education but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and supply sides of the university access equation, while in the few universities where degree programmes were being offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people should stop having poor perception of the programme and give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the practice up to the global best practices; create centre of excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to teach distance learning students.
The guest speaker however, admitted the efforts of the federal government in tackling the problem of inadequate access by encouraging private sector and state governments to establish and own higher institutions of learning.
Earlier in his address, the Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof Adetokunbo Sofoluwe said the popularity of DLI has continued to increase with each passing year, which has generated a lot of awareness among the teeming population of qualified aspiring applicants who could not gain admission into the mainstream institutions due to several reasons.
He said the last three years have seen a heightened national commitment to redeem the collective pledge made on September 29, 2000 in the Abuja Declaration of the 2001-2010 Decade of Distance Education in Nigeria.
" The Declaration, while noting the urgent need for all stakeholders to satisfy the exceptionally large demand for education by our huge and rapidly expanding population solemnly resolved to adopt distance education as a desirable and inevitable mode for providing access to all and achieving equitable representation by taking the distance out of education."
The VC stated that the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos has been making progress in its bid to meet the expectations of the Abuja Declaration, as well as global trends and best practices by concentrating on few critical areas such as academic staff recruitment, continuous training, and motivation; deployment of an integrated e-learning management system; the development of learner support system; quality assurance mechanisms; and building sustainable partnerships among ODL Institutions in Nigeria, the Open University, United Kingdom, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Indira Ghandi National Open University of India (IGNOU).

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Tel: (01) 493 2660-3. Fax: (01) 493 2669. Email: vcunilag@unilag.edu.ng. URL: http://www.unilag.edu.ng. Executive Head: Prof. Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, Address: ,