Kwara State University, Malete, has announced plans to discontinue its Top-Up\/HND Conversion programme from the 2025\/2026 academic session in compliance with directives from the National Universities Commission.\n<\/p>\n
The institution disclosed this in a public announcement on Monday, signed by the Registrar, Kikelomo Sallee.\n<\/p>\n
According to the statement, the decision followed regulations issued by the National University Commission, the regulatory body for universities in Nigeria.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to inform the public that Kwara State University, Malete, will discontinue its Top Up\/HND Conversion programme from the 2025\/2026 academic session.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis discontinuation is in compliance with the regulations of the National Universities Commission (NUC), the regulatory body for all universities in Nigeria,\u201dthe statement read.\n<\/p>\n
The university added that the NUC would later provide directives regarding students already enrolled in the programme.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NUC will also give directives on the status of students already enrolled on the programme in KWASU in due course,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
KWASU reaffirmed its commitment to regulatory compliance and academic standards. <\/p>\n
\u201cKwara State University, Malete, is firmly committed to ethical standards and abides by all the policies of the regulatory body,\u201d the statement noted.\n<\/p>\n
The development comes weeks after the university secured full accreditation for nine undergraduate programmes during the NUC\u2019s October\/November 2025 accreditation exercise.\n<\/p>\n
In a statement issued by the Director of University Relations, Saeedat Aliyu, the university said the accreditation status was conveyed in a letter dated April 7, 2026, and signed by the NUC Director of Accreditation, Abraham Chundusu.\n<\/p>\n
According to the notice, \u201cthe full accreditation status is valid for the statutory period of three years.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The accredited programmes include Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Environmental Health Science, English, Linguistics, Performing Arts, Computer Science and Microbiology.\n<\/p>\n
Reacting to the development, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, described the accreditation as a reflection of the institution\u2019s commitment to academic excellence.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe successful reaccreditation of the nine programmes points to the commitment of all stakeholders to sustain the excellent education provided by the institution.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cMembers of the university community must continue to give premium service, as the management will not relent in working for the advancement of the institution.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kwara State University, Malete, has announced plans to discontinue its Top-Up\/HND Conversion programme from the 2025\/2026 academic session…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[13455,105247,116709,116710,116711,116712,59598,122,10208,59599,116713],"class_list":{"0":"post-229155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-academic-session","9":"tag-education-news","10":"tag-hnd-conversion","11":"tag-kwara-state-university","12":"tag-kwasu","13":"tag-malete","14":"tag-national-universities-commission","15":"tag-nigeria","16":"tag-nigerian-universities","17":"tag-nuc","18":"tag-top-up-programme"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116555506304235519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}