have raised eyebrows, registering their disappointments over a cream of suspended courses and poor results recently released.
The result released on Thursday is believed to be poor and a representation of the programming error of computers, and not a true representation of students' performance.
On the other hand, for undisclosed reasons, courses such as Mass-communication, Public Administration, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Law, Marketing, Business Administration, Community Health and a host of others have been suspended.
Returning students are said to be still eligible to continue studying the courses while prospective students and newly admitted ones who are aspiring to choose or have chosen any of the Suspended courses are advised to switch to other courses or request for a refund of their Five Thousand naira application fees.
Recall that last semester, the school website, www.noun.edu.ng was shut down as a result of some fracas between the website host, Cyberspace, and NOUN management.
This led to students not being able to submit their continuous assessment tests, Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) which comprises 30% of their exam grades.
Sequel to that, students were required to register their exams manually and equally write them via the improvised e-platform which resulted to massive poor E-exam results reportedly caused by erroneous programming of answers in the computers.
According to Prof. Abdalla Adamu, the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, about 70% of the income accruing into the institution is channeled to Cyberspace for the maintenance of the site.
This, Abdalla said, was exorbitant and therefore harnessed the services of in-house Industrial Training (IT) personnel to create a new website,
www.nouonline.com recently launched for the institution.
To compensate the students for suffering as a result of the wrong programming, our whistle blower garnered that the institution had purportedly promised to add 25 marks to each students score, but on releasing the results, the promise seems to have been eroded. Students say the promised marks are not reflecting.
Decrying the poor grading system, a 200L student, John Umar (not real name) told us: '' I am highly disappointed in this school. We studied hard to pass our exams but their computers erroneously programmed, graded us poorly. In courses I was supposed to get A's, I had C's, in the ones I was supposed to have C's, I had D's or E's. It's so wicked of them ''.
Commenting on the issue, Joel, another student said that although some students' scores were upgraded, his was not.
'' NOUN should not play with our future. How can they just suspend all those courses? Also, they promised to add 25 marks to our grades and now, the promise is not reflecting. Although some students were graded quite higher than what they scored during the e-examinations, but the 25 marks were not added to my scores. They should please do something about this '', he said.