Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Julius Okojie urged the Senate Committee on Education which visited the regulatory agency on Monday,in Abuja, to initiate a forum for regular interaction between stakeholders to put an end to the frequent distortion of academic programmes in universities .
Okojie also decried high level of indiscipline among academics,saying the university unions rather than concentrate on academics, abhors regulations by the NUC even when more government resources was being injected into the system.
Meanwhile,Chairman Senate Committee on Education,Senator Uche Chukwumerije who led the delegation on the visit to NUC, emphasised that oversight functions as practiced by legislative arm of government were not for witch hunting,rather it was to uncover peculiar challenges with respect to delivering their mandates.
