‘No more admission for mgt students at FUNAAB’

The management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has said that there will no longer admit students for management programmes.
FUNAAB has complied with the federal government’s directives to stop management science programmes in compliance with the federal government’s directive to stop management science programmes in Nigerian polytechnics.
The vice chancellor of the university, Prof Kolawole Salako said the university stopped admitting students for management courses immediately the federal government ordered specialised universities to stop management courses.
“We definitely have no option but to comply with the policy.
We complied immediately when the federal government pronounced it and we’ve stopped admitting students for courses in management sciences,’’ he said.
However, the VC appealed to the government to allow the current undergraduates of management courses in specialised universities to graduate before it completely scraps the courses in the institutions.
‘’Those students who are currently running such programmes in the university must, however, be allowed to graduate.” Salako added that the government decision would affect lecturers and students of College of Management Sciences in FUNAAB because the students might not be able to refer to the institution as their alma mater, while the lecturers would have to start looking for jobs elsewhere.
Speaking on behalf of Management Science students and their lecturers in FUNAAB, the vice chancellor said instead of scrapping the entire faculty in specialised universities, Management Science curriculum could be modified to reflect a bias toward agriculture.
There’s no law that says that even an accountant cannot study agriculture.
All we need to do is to modify our curriculum to give orientation to our students to appreciate agriculture.
“That is the essence of being a specialised university.
The federal government should revive the college and we shall modify our curriculum to fit in properly.” Recall that in 2017, the federal government ordered the scrapping of management courses in specialised varsities in the country, which was followed by the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu’s instruction to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board “to delete all such courses on its portal.”