Vice Chancellor of Bayero University (BUK), Kano, Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has said that the institution no longer runs sub-degree programmes.
Rasheed, who spoke at a press conference ahead of the 30th convocation ceremony, said that open and part-time degree programmes would be introduced at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE).
As part of the university's effort at improving its academic pursuit, he said that they the institution had commenced started a programme in Mechatronics Engineering and that Dentistry, Allied Medicine
Sciences, Communication Engineering, Fisheries, Forestry/Agro, Food Science and Technology would soon be introduced.
He further disclosed that the university was collaborating with the National Universities Commission to start Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.
"A Bio-Technic Research Center will soon be commissioned as we are going to organize international conference on Bio-Technology in Kano.
"We are also lucky that we are among the six universities in the country that are benefiting from a major intervention by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), he said.
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