By Maryam Abeeb
About 30 out of 331 graduating students of Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja,will be awarded first class as the institution holds its 10th convocation ceremony.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Hyacinth Ichoku, who disclosed in Abuja, said the 30 graduands have distinguished themselves both in terms of quality and performance.
According to Ichoku, of the 331 graduands, 60 are in the post graduate class, 151 have second class upper, 130 have second class lower, while 20 have third class.
The vice chancellor disclosed that the school has contacted different embassies across the country in a bid to establish language courses in the university to enable students learn critical languages to ease communication
He said: “We have written embassies and have received positive responses, we are hoping that in the near future, we would be able to establish the language course, where people could come and learn critical languages that are relevant.”
He said the university is currently running about 32 undergraduate and over 18 post graduate programmes from faculties of education, management, humanity, social sciences, engineering, natural and applied science and law.
He added that the school is proposing new programmes and waiting for the National University Commission (NUC) sub-verification team’s approval for it to start admitting students into faculties of pharmacy, medicine and medical lab science.
The VC said the school was also relying on the verification team for approval of PhD programmes in English and literary studies, accounting and mass communication as well as MSc in counselling.
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