AUTHORITIES of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, have
re-affirmed their commitment to providing the enabling environment for
students to attain their academic desires.
To this end, the Faculty of Dentistry of the institution has entered into collaboration with the Georgia School of Health Sciences (USA) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada with the purpose of improving learning to make what obtains at UNN be at par with its contemporaries globally.
Declaring open the 2012 Students’ Week of the University of Nigeria Dental Students’ Association (UNDESA) at the Enugu campus of the university at the weekend, the Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Oge Linda Okoye, disclosed that the partnership had already yielded positive results as the Georgia School of Health Sciences had donated to the faculty dental chair units and phantom head units, which are being expected in the country.
She said in pursuit of academic excellence, the faculty had also attracted student exchange programme with the University of British Columbia, adding that with the current arrangement, desiring UNN dental students could now visit and spend one month of intensive training in Colombia in their final year, so as to avoid disruption of academic curriculum.
According to the dean, “it is worthy of note that the faculty is preparing to receive officials of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) within the month for accreditation of our clinical dental internship programmes before the final examinations and graduation of our pioneer faculty students who will not need to write the external qualifying MDCN examinations”.
Despite the challenges facing them, Okoye noted that the faculty, which now has a new prosthetic laboratory, with sitting capacity in excess of the current NUC class quota, is poised to work harder to produce graduates that are well grounded in the arts and sciences of dentistry and who could compete favourably with their local and foreign counterparts in character and learning.
Also speaking, the Provost, College of Medicine of UNN, Prof. Basden Onwubere, described as amazing the growth of the faculty since its inception in 2004.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church-owned Veritas University, Abuja (VUNA), has made record for having all its nine academic programmes granted full accreditation by the National Universities Commission (NUC) at its first visit, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. David Ker, has said.
Source The Guardian NewsPaper
To this end, the Faculty of Dentistry of the institution has entered into collaboration with the Georgia School of Health Sciences (USA) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada with the purpose of improving learning to make what obtains at UNN be at par with its contemporaries globally.
Declaring open the 2012 Students’ Week of the University of Nigeria Dental Students’ Association (UNDESA) at the Enugu campus of the university at the weekend, the Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Oge Linda Okoye, disclosed that the partnership had already yielded positive results as the Georgia School of Health Sciences had donated to the faculty dental chair units and phantom head units, which are being expected in the country.
She said in pursuit of academic excellence, the faculty had also attracted student exchange programme with the University of British Columbia, adding that with the current arrangement, desiring UNN dental students could now visit and spend one month of intensive training in Colombia in their final year, so as to avoid disruption of academic curriculum.
According to the dean, “it is worthy of note that the faculty is preparing to receive officials of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) within the month for accreditation of our clinical dental internship programmes before the final examinations and graduation of our pioneer faculty students who will not need to write the external qualifying MDCN examinations”.
Despite the challenges facing them, Okoye noted that the faculty, which now has a new prosthetic laboratory, with sitting capacity in excess of the current NUC class quota, is poised to work harder to produce graduates that are well grounded in the arts and sciences of dentistry and who could compete favourably with their local and foreign counterparts in character and learning.
Also speaking, the Provost, College of Medicine of UNN, Prof. Basden Onwubere, described as amazing the growth of the faculty since its inception in 2004.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church-owned Veritas University, Abuja (VUNA), has made record for having all its nine academic programmes granted full accreditation by the National Universities Commission (NUC) at its first visit, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. David Ker, has said.
Source The Guardian NewsPaper
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