The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities (COPSUN) has called on the National Universities Commission (NUC) to make members of professional bodies’ part of its accreditation team to universities.
COPSUN stated this Monday in a communique in Ibadan signed by the chairman, Professor Ayodeji Omole, and made available to journalists after its 73rd quarterly meeting.
The Pro Chancellors said this will among others eliminate regulatory interference in university administration by the professional bodies.
COPSUN in the communique lamented what it called the growing interference of professional regulatory bodies in university governance.
“The NUC as the regulatory authority for the university system should be legally strengthened and empowered to exercise overriding authority over university administration nationwide with the professional bodies serving only as part of the accreditation team being headed by NUC.
“COPSUN received the reports from our various universities over the growing interference of professional regulatory bodies in university governance.
“These organisations, though legally established and constitutionally empowered, subject universities to multiple overlapping exercises such as resource verification, accreditation, indexing, induction and licensing.
“These acts put a lot of pressure on the universities, leading to accreditation fatigue in most universities’ systems,” the communiqué reads.
