6th December 2010 - National Universities Commission

programmes at USuniversities and in fifteenforeign countries.The Vice-Chancellorswere informed thatPetroleum Engineeringwas one of the areasABET providedprogramme accreditation.In a presentation, theExecutive Directordescribed the nongovernmental,peer-review The Nigerian delegation with the Executive Director, ABET and staffprogramme accreditationprocess practiced in theUS and how it ensured the quality and relevance of university programmes.There was extensive discussions on ABET’s international activities, which includedconducting workshops, consultancy services as well as the establishment of mutualagreements with foreign bodies. At the end of the visit, it was decided that the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Professor BabatundeAlabi should seize the opportunity of the visit to establish linkages and partnerships toenhance and strengthen the Petroleum Engineering programme in the University. It was alsounderstood that NUC could involve ABET experts in its accreditation, consistent with thenew concept of including international experts and observers to lend credence to itsaccreditation process, which had been adjudged to be one of the most robust in Africa.At the University of Baltimore, the group was welcomed by the President, Mr. RobertBogomolyn and a team of the University’s management and academic staff. PresidentBogomolyn expressed the delight of the University to be one of the institutions to be visitedby the Nigerian delegation. He informed the visitors that the University was founded as anindependent institution in1925 and thenmetamorphosed into thestate-supportedUniversity System ofMaryland in 1975. TheThe delegation, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst farmUniversity comprisedfour schools: the YaleGordon College of Artsand Science, the MerrickSchool of Business, theCollege of Public Affairsand the School of Law.The visitors wereinformed that, with a total student enrolment of 6,265, the university was poised to double thesize of the university’s infrastructure.Page 6