PRE-DEGREE UNIT

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List of Staff

The Unit is headed by a Coordinator who is an academic staff appointed by the Vice Chancellor to Coordinate the affairs of the Unit. The Unit has only two supporting staff made up of Typist/Secretary and a Senior Clerical Officer. The Unit does not have its own teaching staff but the teaching staff are drawn from the academic staff of the various Departments where the subjects taught at the pre-degree exist.

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Functions

The Unit started operation in May, 1987 under the name ‘Remedial Year Programme’ and later changed to “Remedial Science Programme’  The Senate later changed the name to Pre-Degree Science Programme because of the misunderstanding of the name ‘Remedial’ by prospective candidates.

The Pre-degree Science Programme Unit was established to prepare students from the catchment areas in the sciences preparatory to their entry to the five year degree programmes of the University who for one reason or the other could not gain admission to the University through JAMB and also for those with one deficiency or the other in the sciences.

In the 2000/2001 Academic session, Pre-degree Management Programme was introduced by the University to prepare Management Students who would eventually be absorbed into the school of Management and Information Technology.  The subjects offered are Economics, Commerce, Geography, Biology, Accounting in addition to Mathematics and English.

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Requirements

The programme is for one academic session and admit only candidates with 4 credits and above in the sciences at WASC, GCE, SSCE, NECO  or its equivalent in not more than two sittings.  Candidates from Technical Colleges with credits in the relevant sciences are also given admission.  Successful candidates at the end of the one year programme are placed into part one programmes of the University.  The programme runs from October to August every academic year.

Pre-degree advisory Committee

The Pre-degree programme has an advisory committee chaired by the Dean School of Pure and Applied Sciences with members made up of representatives from each of the Schools, Coordinator of the pre-degree programme and representative of the Academic Secretary as the Secretary of the Committee.  The Committee is responsible for the admission of qualified candidates into the programme, considering and recommending their results to Senate for approval and placing successful pre-degree students into various programmes of the University.

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