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NUC Reviews UG, Develops PG BMAS for Social Work
T h e N a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t i e s
Commission has reviewed the
Benchmark Minimum Academic
Standards for undergraduate
p r o g r a m m e a n d d e v e l o p s
Benchmark Minimum Academic
S t a n d a r d s f o r P o s t g r a d u a t e
Programme in Social Work.
The review of the Benchmark
Minimum Academic Standards for
undergraduate programme and
development of Benchmark
Minimum Academic Standards for
Postgraduate Programme in Social
Work was sequel to a two-day
Stakeholders Workshop organised
by Twinning for Health Support
I n i t i a t i v e , N i g e r i a , a n o n -
governmental organisation in
collaboration with the National
Universities Commission, some
Nigerian universities and the
Federal Ministry of Women Affairs
and Social Development.
The entire exercise was funded by
United States Centre for Disease
Control and Prevention through
Centre for Clinical Care and
Clinical Research, Nigeria.
The Director, Academic Planning,
D r. G . B . K u m o w e l c o m e d
participants to the meeting and
informed them that the meeting
was the continuation of the process
for the review of the Benchmark
Minimum Academic Standards for
undergraduate programme and
development of Benchmark
Minimum Academic Standards for
Postgraduate Programme in Social
Work.
He told the meeting that in the
review of BMAS, a few changes
were allowed, and as such the
entire document should not
undergo radical change. He
reminded the meeting that the
minimum credit units for a four
year undergraduate programme was
120 units, but that 148 credit units
might be allowed.
For the postgraduate programme, he
disclosed that Master degree was to
carry 30 credit units, while Ph.D
should have 48 credit units. He
advised the meeting to rst consider
the common courses in Social
sciences before adding other
courses. He urged the panel to
produce a document that would be
very valuable to the Nigerian
University System.
There were technical sessions for
five days. During the sessions, the
experts brainstormed and reviewed
the undergraduate BMAS in Social
Wo r k a s w e l l a s d e v e l o p e d
Postgraduate BMAS in Social Work
The Director, Academic Planning in
his closing remarks thanked the
resource persons for doing a
thorough job. He said the document
would put through administrative
editing before being sent to the
Universities for comments and
inputs, harvested, which would be
harvested and incorporated into the
document at another meeting to be
convened for that purpose before
the final draft will be produced. The
documents shall then be forwarded
t o N U C M a n a g e m e n t f o r
consideration and approval for use
as draft. Subsequently, the
document would be sent through
the Minister of Education to the
Federal Executive Council (FEC)
for approval.
Participants at the meeting were
d r a w n f r o m t h e N a t i o n a l
U n i v e r s i t i e s C o m m i s s i o n ,
University of Nigeria Nsukka,
University of Calabar, University of
Jos, University of Ilorin, Federal
University Laa as well as Federal
Ministry of Women Affairs, Abuja,
and National Association of Social
Workers
https://www.thisdaylive.com/ index.php/2017/07/24/social- workers-to-the-rescue/ The Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development last week in Enugu trained 55 auxiliary social workers to help orphans, mentally ill persons and emotionally traumatised families regain normalcy in their lives, writes Christopher Isiguzo The need for a social development workforce to help stem the tide of the increasing spate of anti-social behaviours including domestic violence leading to wife-battery and breeding of disconsolate vulnerable children as well as the countless mentally unstable persons who flood the streets has clearly become imperative. In recent times, quite a number of anti-social behaviours mostly exhibited by young people who indulge in cult activities have started to take their toll on the society necessitating the need for quick intervention by major stakeholders. It’s in line with this that the federal government recently in Enugu formally graduated a ne
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