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Share THE Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has frowned on attempt by some professional bodies to equate Fellowship with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), which is the highest academic degree in the university system. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the commission has been inundated with complaints over alleged attempt by some professional bodies to place their Fellowships at a par with PhD, requiring NUC’s clarification of the contention. It was further gathered that the NUC boss vented his spleen over the development when he received the delegation from the West Africans Postgraduate College of Medical Laboratory Science, (WAPCMLS), led by its President, Professor Nafiu Amidu in his office, Abuja. ....
03 March 2021 The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has told the delegation from the West African Postgraduate College of Medical Laboratory Science, (WAPCMLS) that the commission shall not encourage Fellowship of any professional bodies or organization as a substitute for a PhD. NUC current bulletin reports that Prof. Rasheed disclosed this when he received the WAPCMLS team led by its President, Prof. Nafiu Amidu, in his office recently. Rasheed said that while fellowship was the highest professional qualifications for professional in any non-academic organization, PhD was the highest academic degree in the university system anywhere in the world, adding that there was no basis for argument over superiority of PhD over professional fellowship, stressing that such argument is tantamount to a waste of time. ....
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh crisis looms as LASU shortlists candidates without PhD for VC position Two of the candidates shortlisted do not have a PhD despite NUC s position that a fellowship of any professional bodies or organisation cannot be substituted for a PhD. It appears the management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has failed to learn from the controversy that led to the recent cancellation of the appointment of a new vice-chancellor for the institution. The school has again shortlisted two candidates without PhDs (Doctor of Philosophy) for its vacant vice chancellor position despite the position of the National Universities Commission (NUC), the agency that regulates university education in Nigeria, that fellowships of any professional bodies or organisation cannot be substituted for a PhD. ....