The National Open Uni
versity of Nigeria (NOUN) has restated its commitment in ensuring that the nation’s educational sector is repositioned for greater impact and growth.
Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof Vincent Ado Tenebe in a statement said the National Open University of Nigeria had renewed its focus to make education available to many people.
According to him “education is core to whatever we want to do as a nation. Nigeria cannot make much progress towards the attainment of its vision 20-20-20 unless we strengthen our education system. We will therefore do our best in the next four years to reposition our educational sector in a way that he entire nation will appreciate.
Tenebe explained that Nigeria, since independence has continued to demonstrate unwavering commitment to education as a tool for national and personal development and inalienable right of her citizens stating that the socio-economic dimensions of providing education for all were huge but the NOUN has been committed to standing in the gap.
He said the establishment of the NOUN was the realization of the need to widen access to education especially to those desirous of it as well as providing for a leftlong learning for people of diverse social status who otherwise are encumbered by many social factors such as hinted space and inadequate access in conventional universities, work situation, family life, religious tenets among others.
Tenebe revealed that in addition to the fee eight schools of different disciplines in the institution there an international training and research centre known as Regional Centre for Training and Development in Open and Distance Learning (RETRIDAL) which he said was established by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) to cater for open and distance learning within the West African Sub-region.
On the institutions learning quality, Tenebe said “quality is the watch-world at the NOUN and it underpins every aspect of the experience prepared for a students who has decided to be instructed at the university.
The NOUN Vice Chancellor further maintained that the NOUN has an exciting platform where learning was not only made easy but also accessible.
“The university is an exemplar of higher education made easy, a do-it-yourself, at your own pace and place of instiution. You are invited to visit our website or any of our study centres to enlist yourself spouse, children, wards or friends” he said.

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