Ukrainian Universities set to collaborate with Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria
POLITICS DIGEST- In order to offer high quality world class education using modern technology, the foremost V.N Karazin Kharkiv National University and the Lviv University of Business and Law from Ukraine paid a working visit to the Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria in Kano, where they accessed the University’s preparations towards signing a joint cooperation agreement with their university.
After touring the facilities of the institution, the team had a closed door session at the council Chambers of the University with the management. The founder of the University Professor Adamu Abubakar welcomed the delegation from the Ukrainian Universities and lauded them for coming all the way to the University campus in kano for on the site assessment of the campus and promised to complete the remaining requirements that will lead to a mutually beneficial intervention programmes for both institutions.
In his words, Prof Abubakar declared thus: “This collaboration is aimed at building a strong synergy and partnership with the universities in Ukraine which would enable our students to acquire knowledge with hands on skills that would make them employable and job creators globally.
In his remarks, Prof Valeriy Reznikov of the V.N Karazin kharkiv National university stated that his university was one of the oldest and largest in Europe, having been established in 1804, adding that they had come with the representative of Lviv University of Business and Law, Mrs Olgar Krasnopera, to meet with their counterparts in MAAUN, to explore ways they could jointly build educational and economic relationship with Nigeria through the Kano based University. . He also revealed that while students from the University would be allowed to run programmes in the Ukrainian universities, their counterparts from Karazin and Lviv Universities would come to MAAUN to learn and conduct academic research. According to the Professor, the collaboration with MAAUN will offer courses that cut across medical science, Security and safety, music and entertainment, business and culture, Agriculture among others.
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In her own contribution, Mrs Inna Kolomyichuk, who is the Director of Ukrainian-African Academic Centre of the V.N. Karazin Kharki National University, expressed satisfaction over the preparedness of Maryam Abacha American University to enter into a working agreement with her University. She stated that such collaboration will offer high quality education using modern technology. She assured of her University’s readiness to enter into mutually beneficial partnership with MAAUN as to offer specialized courses namely; skills & entrepreneurship programs, graduate and postgraduate education, among others. She also invited the management of the University to visit her university in Ukraine to inspect their world class learning facilities and research centers.
Meanwhile, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, Dr Cliff Ogbede, who is the country representatives of the two Universities through FTAISA Skills Training & Entrepreneurship Development Centre, pointed out that the partnership with the Ukrainian universities would be geared towards uplifting the standards of education in the country, since the experts from Ukraine sit on a consortium of famous academic institutions in their homeland. He equally stated that prominent scholars from Germany, Poland and other European countries will be visiting the University in Kano, to give lectures and offer research assistance.
Dr Ogbede stated unequivocally that the cooperation would enable the partnering institutions from Ukraine to domesticate their programs and deliver courses which will help to build new entrepreneurs for the growth and development of the country’s economy. Dr Ogbede equally disclosed that the partnering institutions would run what he termed a “2 plus 2” educational exchange programme, where selected students from the Maryam Abacha American university would spend two years in Nigeria and then travel to Ukraine to spend another two years in order to earn a degree certificate in Ukraine. The curriculum of the said degree would be administered in part by the MAAUN staff while the Ukrainian lecturers would complete the curriculum schedule.
Ogbede revealed that the Ukrainian Universities would support MAAUN in research, seminar and international workshops, in addition to assisting her lecturers publish high impact articles in Western journals.
In view of the global security challenges that have affected the country adversely, Dr Ogbede posited that the partnering Ukrainian universities would support MAAUN in creating a Centre for Security Studies in the campus, which would assist government in the area of research and strategic planning.
