UI cancels 2019/2020 academic calendar, resumes January 18
The management of the University of Ibadan has announced that the institution will be reopened on Monday, January 18 for academic activities.
The institution also set aside the academic session for 2019/2020, saying a new 2020/2021 academic session, would commence on February 20 and end on December 22, 2020.
The university senates approved January 18 date for varsity students to return back to campus after a meeting was held by the institution committee on Thursday.
“At its special meeting held on Monday, 11 January 2021, the Committee of Provosts, Deans, and Directors recommended the proposed Academic Calendar for 2019/2021 Session to the senate for approval,” the senate wrote in a statement. “It decided that: the 2019/2020 academic session be canceled and the new session now renamed 2020/2021 academic session. The proposed calendar for 2019/2020 is accordingly changed to 2020/2021.”
The Institution also declared that new undergraduates for the 2020/2021 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, will not be admitted for the new academic session.
“The University should notify JAMB not to list it in its brochure for 2021/2022 session as candidates who have already registered for UI 2020/2021 Post-UTME would be taken for that session (2021/2022),” the statement added.
Academic activities have been halted across the country, after the long strike by ASUU since March 2020.
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