The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has concluded plans to upgrade its Academy, located at Udi in Enugu State to a full-fledged University,
The Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, gave the hint when he led other officials of the FRSC to a preliminary meeting on its planned programme of action with the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, on Tuesday, 25th April, 2017.
While intimating the NUC Scribe of this plan, Dr. Oyeyemi stated that the FRSC currently has two training institutions comprising the Academy and a training school.
He explained that the Academy which it run in partnership with the World Bank, presently services the needs of new recruits into the Corps, who are trained on the rudiments of Road Safety within a six- month interval leading to award of certificates. The training school is used for the lower level officers of the agency.
The corps marshal told the executive secretary that the FRSC had two proposals it was working on, one of which is short-term and the other medium term. On the short-term is to raise the bar for the academy to offer post-graduate programmes in affiliation with an existing University in Nigeria, with the view to further enrich the skills of its manpower in the areas of Road Safety and Transport Management, Logistics and Cyber Security Studies, among others.
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The second idea, which is a medium term plan, is to apply to the NUC for a total upgrade of the Academy to a full-fledged degree awarding institution.
Responding, Prof. Rasheed expressed delight at the mission of the FRSC team, which, he said, would promote higher education and ensure competitiveness among its staff.
While describing it as noble, he highlighted that NUC has a 14-step process for establishing a Private University.
The process, he mentioned, could be less cumbersome if the idea was to collaborate with an existing institution and pledged the assistance of the Commission in the FRSC’s efforts to achieve these objectives.
