The Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, UNIJOS, Professor Tanko Ishaya, has announced that between that between 2021 to date, 97 academic Staff have been promoted to become Professors at the University.
“97 academic Staff of the institution were promoted to the rank of Professorship till date,” Ishaya stressed.
The Vice Chancellorship stated this while marking his 3 years in Office at the Senate Chambers of the University.
He said, over 345 academic Staffs also benefited from various training initiation initiated by the school management between July 2024 till date.
“About 120 were trained, two enjoyed overseas training. Over 100 None academic Staff benefited training within the period under review.”
Professor Ishaya who is the 10th Substantive Vice Chancellor of the institution, said he assumed mantle of leadership on the 1st December 2021, and has done his best to lift up the standard of the University.
He vowed to provide conducive academic environment, hinge on accountability, equity, and transparency which should be tandem with the University Act and status.
“We are truly committed towards actualizing our mandate, prioritizing staff and its welfare”, he assured.
“We have continued to focus on quality assurance to maintain and improve on our desired academic standards. We currently have 70 out of 75 of our programmes with National University Commission (NUC) with full accreditation status.
“This is about 93.3% of the programmes that we run in contest to 57.3% before we assumed office in December 2021.
“We have established our academic calendar. We have created two additional faculties and over 20 new academic programmes that are contemporary and currently awaiting NUC resource verification exercise”
On Research, the Vice Chancellor said a consortium of Nigerian Universities and Inter-University centres collaborated with the University of Jos had developed a DNA-based indigenous COVID-19 Vaccine Code named SJN3T Corvac Jos, NARICT, NIMR, NVRI and TetFund funded by TETFund.
“Developing an Anti-Tick Vaccine, the University won 9 TETFUND NRF Award out of 32 concept notes submitted in 2023 NRF grant cycle (9 out of 185 TRTFUND NRF awards to all Nigerian Universities in 2024”
The VC, further revealed that Department of Theatre and Film Arts won a great titled -Wake the Flies. Humanitarian crisis in Plateau State, Nigeria from Hessen Film and Medien, Frankfurt in February 2024.
“The grant is a production funding for young talent. The value of the grant is €25,000, saying the University also got a funding in July 2024, from the National Communications Commission (NCC), Abuja for research on Smartware Technology Based Security and Privacy Awareness Solution for Mobile Device Users.
On Sporting development, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, said plans have gone into advance stage to ensure successful hosting of the 27th Nigerian University Games Association, (NUGA) in 2025.
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