About CEP LMS

Continuing Education Programme (CEP), Nnamdi Azikiwe University was established in the 1991/1992 session with Prof. Nduka Okafor as the pioneer Director who also was the Provost of the former Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH) Awka Campus, which metamorphosed into the current Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU) when the New Anambra State was created in 1991.

The basic objective of the Programme at the time, as designed by the pioneer Director was to provide educational opportunities to the following groups of individuals within and outside its community of establishment

The age limit at the inception was a minimum of 30 years. By then, only mature students registered for the Programme and admission requirement was 3 credit passes in relevant courses in WASC/GCE. However, with the difficulties experienced by younger people in securing regular university admission through Unified Matriculation Examination (UME), (as it was then called and now Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) this group of people flocked the CEP as an alternative avenue of gaining tertiary education. That then necessitated the upgrading of the admissions requirement to 5 credits at WASC/GCE level at par with regular students’ admissions requirement, perfectly justified as both Programmes award the same degree. By that, there was and continues to be a boom in admission into CEP.

However, by the 2013/2014 session, the National Universities Commission (NUC), in order to ensure effectiveness of the Programme (by matching the population of the students in the CEP with the availability of physical facilities and staffing, as the same academic staff are engaged in the teaching of both regular and part-time Programmes), suspended admissions into the Faculties of Management Sciences, Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Physical Sciences, which had much larger intakes than in the regular Programmes beyond the stipulated NUC bench-mark of 20% of the regular students’ admission for the CEP. The CEP is a major avenue of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for the University, especially as the Federal Government Subvention to the University for the regular Programme continues to dwindle. The NUC’s directive, therefore, has affected seriously the University’s revenue source.