The National Universities Commission, NUC, has blamed the proliferation of illegal degree awarding institutions on parents whom he said had placed a premium on university certification.
The Acting Executive Secretary, Chris Maiyaki, said this on Sunday 21 of January, 2024 in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
He told NAN that unaccredited degree awarding institutions and satellite campuses remained banned in the country.
He advised parents to thoroughly scrutinise institutions before sending their wards there to acquire certificates.
“Everybody is right to pursue university education but how you go about it is the crux of the matter.
“The challenge of access, the huge gap between supply and demand makes parents desperate about getting university education for their children and this makes them vulnerable to greedy and fraudulent persons with commercial undertone,” he said.
He also said a committee was reconstituted in 2021 to identify and prosecute operators of illegal institutions noting that, that effort recorded a huge success.
NAN
