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HISTORY
The School of Postgraduate Studies was
created in 1991 with the appointment
of Dr. E.B. Alo (now Professor) as the founding Dean. His main responsibility
was to liaise with the various departments and assess the possibility
of some of them starting postgraduate training. The identified departments
then were Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geography and Technology Education.
In 1995 a nine member University Postgraduate Committee was set up under
Professor J.C. Ododo, the second Dean as Chairman to articulate and
produce the Regulation/Guidelines for running the courses. This was
accomplished and approved by the Senate on January 16, 1997.
The
first programme, Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) was mounted
in 1994 after a request was made by the Federal College of Education
(FCE) Yola to the University administration to train its staff. Two
distinguished Professors, F.C. Carew and S.O. Adewole from the University
of Maiduguri and Jos respectively, standardized the courses curricula
of which were drawn by the Technology Education Department. The programme
was mounted in 1993/94 session with the initial intake of 28 students,
seven academic staff comprising the two visiting Professors (above)
and some Senior Lecturers from both FUTY and FCE, Yola
The
programme was initially housed under the School of Postgraduate Studies
until 8/9/98 when it was transferred to the Department of Technology
Education with Dr.(Mrs) R.E. Uyanga as the Coordinator. Twenty-four
(24) students who registered for the PGDE programme commenced studies
in October, 1998 and graduated. The 1st graduation ceremony of the Postgraduate
School took place on Saturday, 13th April, 2002.
By
1997 only 3 postgraduate programmes were considered at the School Board
of Postgraduate Studies. These were M.Sc Rural Development (RD) and
Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Geography Department and
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in General Studies Department. By
1997/98 session, Senate had approved 32 postgraduate programmes for
various departments that submitted their programmes for consideration
by the Board of the School of Postgraduate Studies. In the same year
14 out of the 32 Senate approved programmes started with a total number
of 79 students.
In
1999/2000 session, 26 functional Senate approved postgraduate programmes
were in existence with 198 students. By October, 2001 there were 45
programmes, 400 students. As at the date of this write-up, the total
number of Senate approved academic PG programmes are 64 and all are
functional.
Thus
from a modest start, Postgraduate work at FUTY has recorded a phenomenal
growth in terms of students enrolment (now approximately 1200), staff
and number of academic programmes.
For more information please contact us on the following:
Telephone: +234 703 2232 010
Email: spgs@futy.edu.ng,
spgsfuty@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.futy.edu.ng/admission/spgs.htm
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