APQN Database of Consultants
Noel
Nominated By: Theresa Okafor
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Doctor
Family Names(s): Saliu
Mailing Address: National Universities Commission, Department of Research and Innovations, P.M.B. 237, Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama District, Abuja. Nigeria
Country: Nigeria
Office Telephone: +234 (09) 4133176-81, Ext. 2118
Residence Telephone: +234 803 5904 869
Email: remibiodun2000@yahoo.com
Nationality/Citizenship: Nigerian
Date of Birth: 25-12-1964
Current Position: Deputy Director (Research Administration and Monitoring)
Current Employer: National Universities Commission, Abuja. Nigeria
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: Yoruba
Fluent in Writing: Yoruba
Fluent in Speaking: Yoruba
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: B.Sc. (Hons.) Biochemistry,University of Ilorin, Nigeria,1987
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: M.Sc. Biochemistry,University of Ilorin, Nigeria,1990
3. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Ph.D.,University of Ilorin, Nigeria,2000
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Institutional quality assurance reviews / audits
- Program reviews / accreditations
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Setting up of new QA agency
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Internal QA of institutions
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- Online program accreditation
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Member of the Accreditation Panel to different Universities for Undergraduate programmes in the Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences and Medical programmes and Masters in Business Administration programme.
Institution/City/Country: National Universities Commission/ Abuja/ Nigeria
Date: 1999 - Date
Type of Experience:
- Programme Review / Accreditation
2. Brief Description: Finalisation of HIV/AIDS Education Module and the Development of Quality Assurance Modules of the Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa (VIHEAF)
Institution/City/Country: UNESCO/Bamako/Mali
Date: 7th - 15th March, 2008
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
3. Brief Description: Organisation of NUC/AAU Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Quality Assurance (Train the Trainers Course) For Anglophone West Africa
Institution/City/Country: Association of African Universities/Accra/ Ghana National Universities Commission/ Abuja/ Nigeria
Date: 19th - 21st November, 2007
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
4. Brief Description: Secretary/Member of Task Force saddled with the responsibility of reviewing the Minimum Academic Standards documents for the 13 major disciplines in the Nigerian University System.
Institution/City/Country: National Universities Commission/ Abuja/ Nigeria
Date: April - August, 2004
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: A holder of a Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry (1987), Master of Science in Biochemistry (1990) and a Doctorate in Biochemistry with bias in Biochemical Toxicology (2000) from University of Ilorin, Nigeria, Dr. Noel Biodun Saliu started his working career in June, 1990 as a Research Officer II at the National Universities Commission (NUC), Nigeria. The NUC is a Quality Assurance Agency responsible for the orderly development of university education in Nigeria.
Dr. Saliuâ??s 19 years working experience in the NUC cut across different positions of responsibilities as Research Officer, Quality Assurance Officer, Inspections and Monitoring Officer and now Research and Innovation Officer. He has successfully accomplished different assignments in the Commission ranging from Commission-wide duties to special projects. He was the Officer in charge of EEC (now EU) projects based in Nigerian Universities where there had to be constant liaison with the development partner and the Universities. The success recorded in these projects (seventeen of them) engendered the confidence of his superiors to entrust sensitive jobs to him, which were accomplished very successfully. He was awarded the Departmental Best Worker of the year of NUC Department of Research and Postgraduate Development in 1995. He was actively involved in the monitoring and evaluation of the World Bank assisted $120 million Federal Universities Development Sector Adjustment Operation in 20 Nigerian Universities that participated.
In 2004, Dr. Saliu played a prominent role as member and Secretary of the Task Force that coordinated the review of curriculum of programmes taught in Nigerian Universities. The review process involved a needs assessment survey of the labour market on Nigerian graduates in order to address their weaknesses in the curriculum. It also involved the development of entrepreneurial studies curriculum for Nigerian universities. He has actively participated in numerous accreditation panels that have accredited undergraduate programmes in the Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences and Medicine & Dentistry and Masters of Business Administration programme (Postgraduate). Dr. Saliu is co-anchoring the development of instruments for institutional accreditation in Nigerian Universities.
Dr. N.B. Saliu is very proficient in the use of the computer, which informed his appointment as one of the assessors of the NUC-UNESCO Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa HIV/AIDS education for basic and higher education teachers and teacher trainers. In addition to serving as UNESCO consultants on several occasions, his experience with UNESCO includes desk officership for the Nigeria-UNESCO Science Reformation project and the UNESCO project on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS education into the Faculties of Science and Engineering Curriculum in Nigerian Universities. He is also the Anchorman for the publication Nigerian Universities Inaugural Lectures Series â?? a serial that has wide readership within and outside the shores of Nigeria.
Dr. Saliu is a member of the Nigerian National Council on Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention as well as that on Chemical Weapons. It was in this capacity that he presented one of the country papers on Capacity Building on Biosafety and Biosecurity at the 2008 Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention (BTWC) meeting of experts in Geneva, Switzerland. He has on a number of occasions participated in the review of Environmental Impact Assessment reports of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria and had attended numerous training programmes and meetings in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda, Libya, United Kingdom, Spain, Norway, Switzerland and France.
Dr. Saliuâ??s 19 years working experience in the NUC cut across different positions of responsibilities as Research Officer, Quality Assurance Officer, Inspections and Monitoring Officer and now Research and Innovation Officer. He has successfully accomplished different assignments in the Commission ranging from Commission-wide duties to special projects. He was the Officer in charge of EEC (now EU) projects based in Nigerian Universities where there had to be constant liaison with the development partner and the Universities. The success recorded in these projects (seventeen of them) engendered the confidence of his superiors to entrust sensitive jobs to him, which were accomplished very successfully. He was awarded the Departmental Best Worker of the year of NUC Department of Research and Postgraduate Development in 1995. He was actively involved in the monitoring and evaluation of the World Bank assisted $120 million Federal Universities Development Sector Adjustment Operation in 20 Nigerian Universities that participated.
In 2004, Dr. Saliu played a prominent role as member and Secretary of the Task Force that coordinated the review of curriculum of programmes taught in Nigerian Universities. The review process involved a needs assessment survey of the labour market on Nigerian graduates in order to address their weaknesses in the curriculum. It also involved the development of entrepreneurial studies curriculum for Nigerian universities. He has actively participated in numerous accreditation panels that have accredited undergraduate programmes in the Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences and Medicine & Dentistry and Masters of Business Administration programme (Postgraduate). Dr. Saliu is co-anchoring the development of instruments for institutional accreditation in Nigerian Universities.
Dr. N.B. Saliu is very proficient in the use of the computer, which informed his appointment as one of the assessors of the NUC-UNESCO Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa HIV/AIDS education for basic and higher education teachers and teacher trainers. In addition to serving as UNESCO consultants on several occasions, his experience with UNESCO includes desk officership for the Nigeria-UNESCO Science Reformation project and the UNESCO project on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS education into the Faculties of Science and Engineering Curriculum in Nigerian Universities. He is also the Anchorman for the publication Nigerian Universities Inaugural Lectures Series â?? a serial that has wide readership within and outside the shores of Nigeria.
Dr. Saliu is a member of the Nigerian National Council on Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention as well as that on Chemical Weapons. It was in this capacity that he presented one of the country papers on Capacity Building on Biosafety and Biosecurity at the 2008 Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention (BTWC) meeting of experts in Geneva, Switzerland. He has on a number of occasions participated in the review of Environmental Impact Assessment reports of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria and had attended numerous training programmes and meetings in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda, Libya, United Kingdom, Spain, Norway, Switzerland and France.
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