National Universities Commission (NUC) to stop universities in the country from running Diploma programmes, urging them to adhere strictly to their approved mandates of awarding degrees and higher degrees. The National Universities Commission (NUC) says universities in the country would soon stop diploma programmes run at undergraduate level, the Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, said in Abuja yesterday. He said this when he received the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Dr Masaudu Kazaure in his office. Prof. Rasheed said only polytechnics had the statutory right to run diploma programmes. He said
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