The Acting Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University (KASU), Prof. Abdullahi Ashafa, says the institution will reopen on July 13, to enable its final year students to write their examinations and graduate.
Ashafa, who stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna added that the state government plans to provide foreign scholarships to students with outstanding Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
He said that the students, in substantial numbers, upon graduation, would be sent abroad for their Masters’ degree.
The VC added that the Kaduna State Scholarship and Loans Board had already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with two African universities, where the students would be admitted.
He said that the admission processes would be closed in September and the students had not written their second semester examination because of the protracted industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“As parents, we thought that we should fast track the resumption process so that the students can write their examinations, obtain their results, and submit to the scholarship board to process their admissions,” he said, and solicited ASUU’s understanding.
He said that the school management has resolved, after a meeting with critical managers of the university, to reopen on July 13, with the second semester examination scheduled to commence July 25.
The VC explained that critical managers of the university, which include Deans and HODs shoulder the affairs of teaching and research in the university.
“The Deans and HODs are the critical managers of the university whose subordinates will have to be engaged to conduct the examination, supervise, and process the results.
“It is on this basis that we are confident that we will be able to convince the state government to pay staff salaries that have been withheld,” he said.