UNIVERSITY RULES AND PROCEDURE By Aliyu Dalha Kankia Registrar Federal University Dutsin-Ma

Definition of Key Terms 1. University: Originated from the Latin word universitas, it was modified by different settings as universitas magistrorum, universitas scholarium, or universitas magistrorum et scholarium a self-regulating scholastic guild (community) comprising teachers (masters) and scholars (students) recognized and sanctioned by civil or ecclesiastical authority (6th Century AD) “a community of teachers and scholars who commit themselves to the dissemination of knowledge through teaching and its acquisition through learning, research and scientific enquiry” – Nimi D. Briggs

iii. The whole body of teachers and scholars engaged, at a particular place, in giving and receiving instruction and in research and innovation in the higher branches of learning; such persons are associated together as a society or corporate body, with definite organization and acknowledged powers and privileges (esp. that of conferring degrees), and forming an institution for the promotion of education in the higher or more important branches of learning

First set of medieval universities in western Europe were born under the aegis of the Catholic Church, usually as cathedral schools or by papal bull as Studia Generali, teaching Art, Theology, Law & Medicine 12th - 13th Centuries - Increasing growth and urbanization of European societies – demand grew for professional clergy.

Professionals required and trained besides canon laws - more secular aspects of religious administration, including logic and disputation for use in preaching and theological discussion, and accounting to more effectively control finances. Pope Gregory VII was critical in promoting and regulating the concept of modern university as his 1079 Papal Decree ordered the regulated establishment of cathedral schools that transformed themselves into the first European universities

For their bureaucratic needs, monarchs started to regulate the shape and development of Universities Some scholars such as Syed Farid Alatas have noted some parallels between Madrasahs and early European colleges and have thus inferred that the first universities in Europe were influenced by the Madrasahs in Islamic Spain and the Emirate of Sicily

DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS Rules: An authoritative principles or instructions set forth to guide or govern behavior, conduct or action 3. Procedure: An established or correct method or means of doing or accomplishing something University rules and procedure therefore, means the authoritative instructions and codes of conduct governing behavior and action and the way the instructions are implemented or observed in a typical University system

UNIVERSITY RULES Bodies Responsible for Initiating/making University Rules: 1. National Assembly/State Assembly 2. FME/NUC/Proprietor (Policy) 3. Governing Council/Senate 4. Management

UNIVERSITY RULES There are many University rules, some are general applying to all Universities and others are specific in their applications. They include: Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993 University Establishment Act Statutes Regulations Governing the Conditions of Service of Senior and Junior Staff Establishment Circulars Where and when Federal Civil Service Rules come in

UNIVERSITY RULES Academic Brief (BMAS) – a sort of strategic plan on programmes/departments a. course curriculum b. No. of programmes c. No. of staff per programme Academic Policy ix. Code of Conduct/Code of Ethics

UNIVERSITY PROCEDURE Flow of Policy/Instruction Implementation: Visitor – Through visitation panel Governing Council – Vice-Chancellor/Registrar – Establishment/Works/Bursary/Procurement etc University Senate – Vice-Chancellor/Registrar – Academic Office/Academic Planning, Academic Research Board, Faculty/Deptal Boards Linkages etc

UNIVERSITY PROCEDURE CONT… Committee System Major University Committees: 1. Council (and its Sub-Committees) 2. Senate (and its Sub-Committees) 3. Congregation 4. Convocation 5. UMC (and its Sub-Committees)

UNIVERSITY PROCEDURE CONT.. Employment Placement Promotion Discipline Training Posting

UNIVERSITY PROCEDURE CONT.. Unionism: ASUU SSANU NAAT NASU Students Union Government