The Committee of Deans of Student Affairs of Nigerian Universities (CODESANU), has charged Nigerian universities to admit students based on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) quota, in order not to over-stretch facilities in the Nigerian University System (NUS).
This was contained in a communiqué released at the end of their Conference at the University of Abuja on Tuesday, 30 September, 2014.
The Communiqué also called on universities to strengthen infrastructure in the NUS and put in place strategies that would ensure adequate security on university campuses.
This could include proper manning of university gates, wearing of identity tags by staff and students and sensitization of students on security issues on campuses.
The Committee also called on universities to always share data of expelled students in Nigeria universities with the National Universities Commission (NUC) and CODESANU, to avoid impersonation.
The communiqué in addition stressed the following;
The need for Nigerian universities to enter into public and private partnerships to provide more hostels for students in order to reduce the accommodation and security challenges experienced in most universities.
The need for universities to introduce students’ work-study schemes to assist financially-distressed students.
Only students with a CGPA of 3.0 and above should be allowed to contest elections in order to reduce unnecessary tension with regard to Student Union leadership.
The Communiqué appealed to students of all tertiary institutions not to allow themselves to be used by politicians during the 2015 elections and advised university authorities, not to also allow political rallies, under any guise, on university campuses.
