THE National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has targeted to double its students’ enrollment from the current half a million across all departments by 2024.
The graduates of the university will now also be participating in the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) scheme and attending Law School as applicable.
The Chairman of Governing Council of the university, Prof Peter Okebukola, made this disclosure on Monday in Lagos while briefing newsmen on the development concerning the university as regards President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to the 2018 NOUN Amendment Bill, which provides greater legitimacy to the university as a full-time open and distance learning institution.
According to him, the proposed one million enrollment is in accordance with and follow-up to the three-year ministerial strategic plan which started since 2016 to increase access of qualified Nigerians to university education.
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