Directors profile
Engineer Abraham Chundusu received his primary education in 1980 from Township Primary School, Jos, Plateau State and holds a B.Sc. Degree in Chemical engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in 1991 and an M.Sc. Degree in Networks and Performance Engineering from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, in 2011.
He joined the services of the National Universities Commission in March 1994 as a Research Officer II, in the then Department of Research and Postgraduate Development, where he was designated to analyse the Research grant utilization by federal Universities, collation and classification of research submissions from universities, production of research delivery directory, processing of supplementation for expatriate staff among others. In the course of his service to the commission, Engr. Chundusu has had the privilege of working in the Department of Academic Standards (DAS), Directorate of Academic Planning (DAP) and the Directorate of Accreditation (DA). He was appointed to oversee the Directorate of Accreditation (DA) in January 2024.
He is a registered member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering (COREN) and the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).
vision
To be an effective organ of the Commission responsible for ensuring compliance to quality assurance in the Nigerian University System (NUS) and to assure and sustain the quality of academic programmes and institutional services in Nigerian universities.
mission
To ensure quality of academic programmes in compliance with approved Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) and effective control of resources and other quality assurance instruments required for Nigerian universities to meet national needs and global competiveness.
mandate & function
The functions of the Department are as follows:
- Coordination of accreditation visits to academic programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in all Nigerian Universities and degree awarding institutions.
- Coordination of institutional accreditation in the Nigerian University System;
- Coordination of the development of new instruments used for accreditation exercises;
- Periodic review of the instruments used for programme and institutional accreditation in Nigerian universities and degree-awarding institutions;
- Promotion of institutional culture of quality assurance and self analysis by encouraging universities to develop strong internal quality assurance mechanism and conduct internal mock accreditation exercises;
- Responding to inquiries and advising the National Universities Commission on all issues that relate to accreditation of academic programmes in Nigerian universities;
- Obtaining annually, the list of approved Full-Time/Part-Time Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Distance Learning academic programmes from the Department of Academic Standards to determine programmes that are mature for accreditation;
- Maintaining a database of professors in Nigerian universities and update same annually;