UNILAG Important Notice To Students (SHARE THIS)

This is the UNILAG Important Notice. Students of the School of Foundation Studies are hereby informed that lectures are going on at the various faculties and that the Second In course Assessment is still scheduled to hold from Monday, 18 – Thursday, April 22, 2016.
· It is compulsory for every student to bring along his/her Biometric Identity Card to the examination venue at the Distance Learning Institute.
· Students without their Biometric Identity Card will not be allowed into the Examination Halls
· Verification starts two hours before the examination.
· All the verified candidates must be seated in the Examination Halls 30 minutes before the commencement of the examination.
· No student will be verified 30 minutes after the commencement of the examination
· The examination time-table is pasted at all the faculties’ notice boards.
ABOUT UNILAG
In order to achieve rapid industrialization and development after independence, Nigeria needed to invest in the training of a professional workforce. The indispensable need to create more universities to reach this goal was facilitated by the establishment of the University of Lagos in 1962. The Eric Ashby Commission on Post School Certificate and Higher Education was established by the Nigerian Government in May 1959. The Ashby Commission’s report, titled Investment in Education, recommended the establishment of a new university in Lagos, the then Federal Capital, to provide education for students in Economics, Commerce, Business Administration, and Higher Management Studies. In 1961,
UNESCO Advisory Commission was assigned the detailed planning of the new university by the Federal Government. However, whereas the Ashby Commission had envisaged a non-residential institution which would be cited in the business district of Central Lagos, the UNESCO Commission opted for a traditional university, “a complete all encompassing institution” with residential accommodation on a large campus. Following the acceptance of the UNESCO Commission’s report, the University of Lagos was established on 22 October 1962 on the authority of the University of Lagos Act of 1962.