NUC warns against abuse of honorary doctorates in Nigerian universities, issues guidelines

The National Universities Commission, NUC, has issued a beardown informing implicit the expanding cases of what it described arsenic indiscriminate conferment and misuse of honorary doctorate degrees successful Nigerian universities.

This is arsenic NUC stressed that sanctions volition beryllium imposed connected some institutions and individuals who interruption its rules.

The Commission, successful a connection connected Thursday unveiled 16-point guidelines for the grant and due usage of honorary doctorates, successful enactment with the Education Act (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions), CAP E3, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (2004), and its statutory mandate.

“The committee is profoundly acrophobic astir the expanding misuse and indiscriminate conferment of honorary doctorate degrees successful the Nigerian University,” the connection read.

According to the statement, the caller guidelines purpose to modulate the conferment process, support world integrity, and sphere the credibility of Nigerian universities. All universities and degree-awarding institutions are directed to adhere strictly to the provisions, which are aligned with the Keffi Declaration of 2012, signed by each vice-chancellors.

The Commission noted that honorary doctorates, whether awarded locally oregon abroad, are purely ceremonial and indispensable not beryllium treated arsenic equivalent to earned academic...