STUDENT POWER

Fresh crisis rocks FUPRE News    Thursday, January 26, 2012 By Emma Amaize WARRI – FRESH crisis rocked the Federal University and Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Ugbomro, Delta State, yesterday, following a clash between the management and 400-level students over the refusal of the students to write their terminal examinations if their degree courses were not accredited. The final year examinations billed to commence yesterday, was shunned by the 400 level students, who insisted they would not sit for the examination until their courses were accredited. Due to alleged mismanagement of the institution, none of the courses offered by the institution had been accredited by the relevant authorities in the past five years and a National Universities Commission, NUC, fact-finding team, led by Prof Alhassan Bichi, recently, confirmed that FUPRE programmes were not accreditable at the moment. Embarrassed by the student's action, the management threatened to deal with any of the 400-level students, who refused to write the final year examinations and directed lecturers not to allow any of the aggrieved students to sit for carry-over courses. Representatives of the 400- level students had in an internal memo to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Babatunde Alabi, said that they would not write the final year examinations until their courses were accredited. Culled from