By joshua 
BY IKHILI EBALU, BENIN CITY
National Universities Commission (NUC), has approved additional eight post graduate programmes for Edo State University Uzairue, ( EDSU).
According to a statement signed by the Acting Registrar of the institution, Mr. Habib Ekhalefo, said, a letter addressed to the Vice Chancellor of the University and signed by NUCs Director of Academic Planning, Dr. N.B Saliu, said that the Executive Secretary of the commission has considered and approved the establishment of the full-time courses of postgraduate programmes, to be run in the main campus of the university with effect from the 2021/2022 academic session.
The courses granted approval are Accounting, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Other courses are Business Administration, Mass Communication, Public Administration and Medical Laboratory Science, while Accounting got approval for Phd, the other seven departments got approval for Post Graduate diploma, Masters, and Phd.
It would be recall that the university had earlier gotten approval from the NUC to run post graduate programmes in Political science, History and International studies, Computer science, Microbiology and Biochemistry.
Meanwhile, the University has announced dates for the commencement of second semester for the 2021/2022 academic session.
The statement further stated that students from 300 to 600 level are to resume for the 2021/2022 second semester on Tuesday 19th April 2022.
It also added that students in 100 and 200 levels are expected to resume on campus for the second semester on May 5th, 2022.
Edo State University Uzairue is said to run an uninterrupted academic calendar in commitment to its motto of quality education for human development, while the university is the first to use Anatomage table in the country in the teaching of its medical students and have deployed the use of the CANVASS Learning Management System in the teaching of it students.