See list of illegal universities in Nigeria as declared by NUC

The National Universities Commission recently released a list of illegal degree awarding institutions operating in Nigeria.

The list of these illegal universities was made available to the public in a NUC’s weekly bulletin dated August 24.

In the bulletin, the NUC Executive secretary, Julius Okojie, warned that Certificates obtained from these universities and colleges will not be recognized for the purpose of NYSC, employment and further studies.”

Full list:
1. University of Accountancy and Management Studies, operating anywhere in Nigeria.
2. Christians of Charity American University of Science and Technology Nkpor, Anambra State or any of its campuses.
3. University of Industry, Yaba, Lagos or any of its other campuses.
4. University of applied Sciences and Management Port Novo, Republic of Benin or any of its other campuses in Nigeria.
5. Blacksmith University, Awka or any of its campuses.
6. Volta University College, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana or any of its other campuses in Nigeria.
7. Royal University Izhia, P.O. Box 800, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State or any of its other campuses.
8. Atlanta University, Anyigba, Kogi State or any of its other campuses.
9. Sunday Adokpela University, Otada Adoka, Otukpo, Benue State or any of its other campuses.
10. United Christian University, Macotis Campus, Imo State or any of its other campuses.
11. United Nigeria University College, Okija, Anambra State or any of its other campuses.
12. Samuel Ahmadu University, Makurdi, Benue State or any of its other campuses.
13. UNESCO University, Ndoni, Rivers State or any of its other campuses.
14. Saint Augustine’s University of Technology, Jos Plateau State or any of its other campuses.
15. The International University, Missouri, USA, Kano and Lagos Study Centres, or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
16. Columbus University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria.
17. Tiu International University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria.
18. Pebbles University, UK operating anywhere in Nigeria.
19. London External Studies UK operating anywhere in Nigeria.
20. Pilgrims University operating anywhere in Nigeria.
21. Lobi Business School Makurdi, Benue State or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
22. West African Christian University operating anywhere in Nigeria.
23. Bolta University College Aba or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
24. JBC Seminary Inc. (Wukari Jubilee University) Kaduna Illegal Campus.
25. Westlan University, Esie, Kwara State or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
26. St. Andrews University College, Abuja or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
27. EC- Council University, USA, Ikeja Lagos Study Centre.
28. Atlas University, Ikot Udoso Uko, Uyo Akwa Ibom State or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
29. Concept College/University (London) Ilorin or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
30. Halifax Gateway University, Ikeja or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
31. Kingdom of Christ University, Abuja or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
32. Acada University, Akinlalu, Oyo State or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
33. Fifom University, Mbaise, Imo State or any of its campuses in Nigeria.
34. Houdegbe North American University Campuses In Nigeria.
35. Atlantic International University, Okija, Anambra State.
36. Open International University, Akure.
37. Middle Belt University (North Central University), Otukpo.
38. Leadway University, Ugheli, Delta State.
39. Metro University, Dutse/Bwari, Abuja.
40. Southend University, Ngwuro Egeru (Afam) Ndoki, Rivers State.
41. Olympic University, Nsukka, Enugu State.
42. Federal College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Abuja.
43. Temple University.
44. Irish University Business School London, operating anywhere in Nigeria.
45. National University of Technology, Lafia, Nasarawa State.
46. University of Accountability and Management Studies, Mowe, Lagos Ibadan Expressway and its Annex at 41, Ikorodu Road Lagos.
47. University of Education, Winneba Ghana, operating anywhere in Nigeria.
48. Cape Cost University, Ghana, operating anywhere inNigeria.
49. African University Cooperative Development (AUCD), Cotonou, Benin Republic, operating anywhere in Nigeria.
50. Pacific Western University, Denver, Colorado, Owerri Study Centre.
51. Evangel University of America and Chudick Management Academic, Lagos.
52. Enugu State University of Science and Technology (Gboko Campus).
53. Career Light Resources Centre, Jos.
54. University of West Africa, kwali-Abuja, FCT.
55. Coastal University, Iba-Oku, Akwa-Ibom State.
56. Kaduna Business School, Kaduna.
57. Royal University of Theology, Minna, Niger Delta.
The NUC listed another eight illegal institutions as currently undergoing investigations and court actions. The commission said the action will lead to the prosecution of the proprietors and recovery of illegal fees and charges on subscribers.
The Universities are:
1. National University of Nigeria, Keffi, Nasarawa state.
2. North Central University, Otukpo, Benue State.
3. Christ Alive Christian Seminary and University, Enugu.
4. Richmond Open University, Arochukwu, Abia State.
5. West Coast University, Umuahia.
6. Saint Clements University, Iyin Ekiti, Ekiti State.
7. Volta University College, Aba, Abia State.
8. Illegal Satellite Campuses of Ambrose Ali University.

Resolving JAMB’s admission controversy

Recently, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced at the end of its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting that it had adopted a policy whereby surplus applicants to a university for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) will be re-distributed to other universities with lower number of applicants than their capacities.

Expectedly, the policy drew the ire of stakeholders, particularly parents of the applicants, who feared that their children and wards might be re-distributed to universities in parts of the country with peculiar security challenges, especially the North-East, which has been ravaged by the activities of Boko Haram insurgents for years now.

Many parents equally feared that they might be landed with the option of having their children offered admission into institutions where they could not easily afford the tuition and other expenses. They thus saw the directive as capable of railroading them into situations they had initially avoided through the choices of institutions made by their children and wards. The hysteria and protests which greeted the directive are quite understandable, given the complexities of a society such as ours.

Late last month, the Federal Government, through the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education,  Mr. MacJohn Nwaobiala, announced that it had overruled JAMB on the policy, thus returning the admission quandary to status quo, while at the same time disclosing that government had commenced consultation with the aim of identifying where adjustments could be made.

JAMB authorities may have been altruistic with the policy. The overriding concern might also have been to ensure that applicants get into school, even if they were not the candidates’ choice.

However, we urge that urgent, long-term solutions should be found to the admission problem. There are about 140 universities in Nigeria, with a total admission capacity of 450,000. Given that over 1,300,000 candidates wrote the 2015 UTME, it is certain that more than 800,000 applicants will not find space. This has been a recurring problem which forces many parents to seek admissions for their children in private universities at home and abroad.

Indeed, it is a shame that because of this admission crunch, Nigerians spend close to N160 billion annually educating their children in Ghana alone. It is almost certain that Nigerians spend more than that educating their children in Europe and America and other parts of the world.

The risk of having our children educated by other cultures is that at this rate we are evolving a future generation of Nigerians with little or no empathy for their nation-state. We are programming ourselves to self-destruct. The trend must be reversed urgently with enduring solutions.

JAMB should consult widely among stakeholders and ensure they institute admission policies that will carry everybody along.

2016 UTME form out August 31

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is set to begin the sale of application forms for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

A statement by the board’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Monday said the sale was to prepare candidates early for the examination.

Prospective candidates were also asked to purchase the examination scratch cards from Zenith Bank, Sky Bank and First Bank. It added that registration will be between August 31 and January 15.

“The registration fee for the UTME is N5,000 and candidates are also to pay N500 to obtain the textbook, The Last Days, at Forcados High School.

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“Candidates will, however, be issued the book at the point of registration after showing evidence of payment,’’ said Benjamin.

According to the statement, the registration website will close on Jan. 19, 2016 while the UTME has been slated to commence on February 29 and end on March 14, 2016.

Workers kick as FG plans downgrading of varsities

Alleged plan to return the four newly-created universities of education to their former colleges of education status is causing ripples among stakeholders.

From the Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State; Alvan Ikoku University of Education, Owerri, Imo State; Federal College of Education, Zaria; and the Federal University of Education, Kano, there was agitation bordering on the same issue last week.

The agitators were members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities. Their mission was similar: the protesters were kicking against the Federal Government’s alleged plan to reverse the upgrading of the institutions.

The former President Goodluck Jonathan, at the twilight of his administration, had upgraded these colleges of education to universities.

Curiously, till date, there has not been a statement from any government quarters confirming or denying the move. From the National Universities Commission, the body statutorily saddled with the responsibility of overseeing the nation’s universities and the Federal Ministry of Education, mum is the word on their lips.

At least as of Monday, no one had officially talked about the planned downgrade, yet these schools have not known peace in the past few days. When contacted, the National Universities Commission’s Head of Public Relations, Ibrahim Yakassai, only referred one of our correspondents to the FME.

The ministry’s Spokesman, Mr. Olu Lipede, who initially promised to get back to one of our correspondents, did not eventually respond to the several calls made to his telephone.

Lipede had earlier promised to find out the “true position of things” from his superiors, but he never did that as of the time of going to the press by 8pm.

However, for the protesting workers, there is no smoke without fire.

According to them, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has concluded arrangement to downgrade the universities in line with its plot to restructure the nation’s education sector.

Speaking on the development, the AFUE Joint Non-Teaching Staff Action Committee Chairman, Femi Lademikan, said the workers of the institution had cause to protest against the plan.

Lademikan said, “We want our university to remain. We are appealing to the government through this peaceful demonstration that what we want is our university status.

“We want to tell President Buhari that we have everything required to make this institution a university. We have the people, resources and everything to take to maintain this school. We have the structure and the enabling environment, just as we are peaceful and cooperative.

“Mr. President must not listen to people who don’t love him, sycophants and those enemies of progress.”

The FUEK-ASUU Chairman, Dr. Abubakar Haruna, laid the blame on the doorsteps of the former provosts of the colleges. According to him, the former administrators are conniving with some powerful persons in government to persuade the President to return the institutions to their former status.

Haruna added, “We feel that the President must have been misinformed on the objectives for which the colleges were upgraded. The damage this decision would do to host communities is better imagined.

“The plot to revert this development, in our opinion, is unpatriotic, counter-productive, obnoxious and retrogressive. As you may be aware, NCE used to be the minimum teaching qualification after the phasing out of the Grade II Teacher Certificate in Nigeria.

“The nation has reached a stage when the university degree in education would become the minimum qualification for teaching in the national teacher education policy.”

However, a retired professor of Political Science, Kayode Soremekun, disagrees with Lademikan and Haruna.

Soremekun, who said that he would support the policy somersault, noted that these newly upgraded schools did not have the quality workers to mount the programmes.

“Let them not deceive anybody. They will claim to have the right environment and workers but when you go there, it will be a different thing on the ground.

“Well, they do not have enough faculties to run these universities. I tell you many of them do not have the staff. Generally, there is a chronic shortage of human resource in the nation’s university system. To that extent, they are going to dip into the same pool, which is not increasing anywhere. In this regard, I shall support the policy change considering the paucity of the work force.”

The former Obafemi Awolowo University lecturer also noted that the Jonathan administration might have upgraded these institutions out of desperation to score some cheap political points.

He explained, “Jonathan might have done what he did then for political reasons, especially to gain electoral victory. He was ready to do anything then to gain some mileages politically. If one even checks the spread of the schools, one would see that it had a touch of geographical intent. In any case, you cannot divorce anything from politics.”

Meanwhile, ASUU at AFUE has warned in a statement that the planned reversal will elicit crisis in the university.

In the statement by its Public Relations Officer, Olaolu Olaniyan, the union, therefore, urged the Federal Government not to take such an action.

According to the union, the planned reversal will amount to backwardness for the institution.

The statement read, “It is utter dismay and outright displeasure, the disturbing rumour making the rounds about the purported reversal of the long-awaited and hard-earned university status of Adeyemi Federal University of Education and three other newly-upgraded universities of education. We want to express our unequivocal rejection of such a reversal, which is only capable of creating avoidable tension in the new university community and the host community by extension.

“It is worthy of note that the university has been in the vanguard of turning out well trained teachers for the Nigerian education system for an upward of five decades. The upgrading of the institution into a full-fledged university was premised on several factors, chiefly, the high quality of members of the academic staff who have worked assiduously over the years to produce an array of well-trained teachers for the primary and secondary school components of the Nigerian education system. The institution also runs postgraduate diploma in education programme.

“We firmly subscribe to the belief that the Federal Government’s decision to upgrade the institution into a full-fledged university is a step in the right direction to revamp the Nigerian education system, which is at an all-time low at present. Production of well-trained teachers with bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctoral degree in education would go a long way to salvage the ailing Nigerian education system.

“While we appreciate the quagmire into which the Nigerian economy has been plunged, it is not a sufficient reason, as retrogressive elements adduced, to truncate the implementation of the university status of the institution, which would have profound positive impact on educational development in Nigeria in the proximate future. It is therefore in the light of the foregoing that the union rejects in absolute terms any attempt to truncate the upgrading of the institution to a full fledge university status.”

The students too did not shy away from the agitation. According to the President, Student Union Government of the AFUE, Mr. Isiaka Kamarudeen, they will continue to kick against any regressive action against the institution.

To support their teachers and other members of staff, Kamarudeen said the students were ready to fight what he described as injustice against the institution.

Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, told one of our correspondents that he was not aware of any plan to return the schools to their former status.

Alleged plan to return the four newly-created universities of education to their former colleges of education status is causing ripples among stakeholders, CHARLES ABAH and ADE AKANBI report

From the Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State; Alvan Ikoku University of Education, Owerri, Imo State; Federal College of Education, Zaria; and the Federal University of Education, Kano, there was agitation bordering on the same issue last week.

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The agitators were members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities. Their mission was similar: the protesters were kicking against the Federal Government’s alleged plan to reverse the upgrading of the institutions.

The former President Goodluck Jonathan, at the twilight of his administration, had upgraded these colleges of education to universities.

Curiously, till date, there has not been a statement from any government quarters confirming or denying the move. From the National Universities Commission, the body statutorily saddled with the responsibility of overseeing the nation’s universities and the Federal Ministry of Education, mum is the word on their lips.

At least as of Monday, no one had officially talked about the planned downgrade, yet these schools have not known peace in the past few days. When contacted, the National Universities Commission’s Head of Public Relations, Ibrahim Yakassai, only referred one of our correspondents to the FME.

The ministry’s Spokesman, Mr. Olu Lipede, who initially promised to get back to one of our correspondents, did not eventually respond to the several calls made to his telephone.

Lipede had earlier promised to find out the “true position of things” from his superiors, but he never did that as of the time of going to the press by 8pm.

However, for the protesting workers, there is no smoke without fire.

According to them, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has concluded arrangement to downgrade the universities in line with its plot to restructure the nation’s education sector.

Speaking on the development, the AFUE Joint Non-Teaching Staff Action Committee Chairman, Femi Lademikan, said the workers of the institution had cause to protest against the plan.

Lademikan said, “We want our university to remain. We are appealing to the government through this peaceful demonstration that what we want is our university status.

“We want to tell President Buhari that we have everything required to make this institution a university. We have the people, resources and everything to take to maintain this school. We have the structure and the enabling environment, just as we are peaceful and cooperative.

“Mr. President must not listen to people who don’t love him, sycophants and those enemies of progress.”

The FUEK-ASUU Chairman, Dr. Abubakar Haruna, laid the blame on the doorsteps of the former provosts of the colleges. According to him, the former administrators are conniving with some powerful persons in government to persuade the President to return the institutions to their former status.

Haruna added, “We feel that the President must have been misinformed on the objectives for which the colleges were upgraded. The damage this decision would do to host communities is better imagined.

“The plot to revert this development, in our opinion, is unpatriotic, counter-productive, obnoxious and retrogressive. As you may be aware, NCE used to be the minimum teaching qualification after the phasing out of the Grade II Teacher Certificate in Nigeria.

“The nation has reached a stage when the university degree in education would become the minimum qualification for teaching in the national teacher education policy.”

However, a retired professor of Political Science, Kayode Soremekun, disagrees with Lademikan and Haruna.

Soremekun, who said that he would support the policy somersault, noted that these newly upgraded schools did not have the quality workers to mount the programmes.

“Let them not deceive anybody. They will claim to have the right environment and workers but when you go there, it will be a different thing on the ground.

“Well, they do not have enough faculties to run these universities. I tell you many of them do not have the staff. Generally, there is a chronic shortage of human resource in the nation’s university system. To that extent, they are going to dip into the same pool, which is not increasing anywhere. In this regard, I shall support the policy change considering the paucity of the work force.”

The former Obafemi Awolowo University lecturer also noted that the Jonathan administration might have upgraded these institutions out of desperation to score some cheap political points.

He explained, “Jonathan might have done what he did then for political reasons, especially to gain electoral victory. He was ready to do anything then to gain some mileages politically. If one even checks the spread of the schools, one would see that it had a touch of geographical intent. In any case, you cannot divorce anything from politics.”

Meanwhile, ASUU at AFUE has warned in a statement that the planned reversal will elicit crisis in the university.

In the statement by its Public Relations Officer, Olaolu Olaniyan, the union, therefore, urged the Federal Government not to take such an action.

According to the union, the planned reversal will amount to backwardness for the institution.

The statement read, “It is utter dismay and outright displeasure, the disturbing rumour making the rounds about the purported reversal of the long-awaited and hard-earned university status of Adeyemi Federal University of Education and three other newly-upgraded universities of education. We want to express our unequivocal rejection of such a reversal, which is only capable of creating avoidable tension in the new university community and the host community by extension.

“It is worthy of note that the university has been in the vanguard of turning out well trained teachers for the Nigerian education system for an upward of five decades. The upgrading of the institution into a full-fledged university was premised on several factors, chiefly, the high quality of members of the academic staff who have worked assiduously over the years to produce an array of well-trained teachers for the primary and secondary school components of the Nigerian education system. The institution also runs postgraduate diploma in education programme.

“We firmly subscribe to the belief that the Federal Government’s decision to upgrade the institution into a full-fledged university is a step in the right direction to revamp the Nigerian education system, which is at an all-time low at present. Production of well-trained teachers with bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctoral degree in education would go a long way to salvage the ailing Nigerian education system.

“While we appreciate the quagmire into which the Nigerian economy has been plunged, it is not a sufficient reason, as retrogressive elements adduced, to truncate the implementation of the university status of the institution, which would have profound positive impact on educational development in Nigeria in the proximate future. It is therefore in the light of the foregoing that the union rejects in absolute terms any attempt to truncate the upgrading of the institution to a full fledge university status.”

The students too did not shy away from the agitation. According to the President, Student Union Government of the AFUE, Mr. Isiaka Kamarudeen, they will continue to kick against any regressive action against the institution.

To support their teachers and other members of staff, Kamarudeen said the students were ready to fight what he described as injustice against the institution.

Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, told one of our correspondents that he was not aware of any plan to return the schools to their former status.

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NUC grants nine private varsities operational licence...denies 11 universities full operational licence

The National University Commission NUC on Thursday granted permanent Operational Licensee to Nine private universities.

The Commission said the license followed the institutions’ full compliance with regulatory and accreditation guidelines.

This even, as NUC denied eleven private universities full operational license due to the affected institutions’ inability to meet up with accreditation requirements.

The universities that received full license includes; 

Caleb University, 

Salem University, 

Veritas University, Abuja

Afe Babalola University, 

Godfrey Okoye University,

 Adeleke University, 

Western Delta University.

 The universities that were denied full operational License includes;

Wesley University of Science

Landmark University, 

Rhema University, Aba

Samuel Adegboyega University,

Paul University,

Oduduwa University, 

Tansian University, 

Baze University, 

Obong University, 

Achievers University 

 Well Spring University 

At the ceremony on Thursday in Abuja, the NUC Executive Secretary Julius Okojie, who presented the licenses to the successful institutions’ Vice-chancellors noted that NUC denied eleven private universities full operational license due to the institutions inability to meet up with accreditation requirements. 

“The Commission has given the eleven Universities extension of two years to re-access its staff strength to student ratio and its facilities in order to get full accreditation for all their programmes.

“Interim accreditation was given for 3years, then we visited and inspected the university`s facilities, staff quality and distributions especially in parameter structure,we also check the governance structure and requirements and the hectares of their land if its 100 hectares” he stated.

While answering the question raised by the Registrar of Rhema University, Emmanuel Doughdough on education fund and establishment of Education Development Bank, okojie said: “the establishment act of university Cap. E3 2004: federal government encourage private sector in establishment of universities and this law empowered the NUC to find out if there will be sustainance of fund for the aspired institution.

“The private universities can equally benefit from the government through its ACE programme. We have about three universities currently drawing from this Fund from World Bank for research development purposes” he added.

Responding on behalf of the nine Universities, the Vice Chancellor of Caleb University, Ayodeji Olukoju, said private universities is a way forward for Nigeria.

He said since interim licenses were offered the institutions had focused on academic programme development, system development and infrastructural development.

“Private University is presently contributing to National development”

Microsoft announces world final winners in games, innovation, and world citizenship

The waiting time  is over. Thirty-three finalist Teams who arrived Seattle last Monday for the global technology contest had showcased their innovative solutions in a live presentation before Microsoft panel of judges.

Although it may be difficult for the judges to select the best solution, but winners have emerged from the   Imagine Cup World Finalist Teams.

Just yesterday, Microsoft announced winners of 2015 Imagine Cup finals in Games, Innovation and World Citizenship categories.

It would be recalled that thirty-three Imagine Cup World Finalist Teams had arrived Seattle last Monday for the global showcase.

Meanwhile, the Imagine Cup World Champion will be crowned today by the Microsoft Chief Executive Officer,  Satya Nadella.

The competing Teams had presented their innovative solution in a live presentation before Microsoft panel of judges last Wednesday.

World Citizenship:

1st Place: Virtual Dementia Experience, Australia: $50,000 and a Microsoft YouthSpark Boot Camp

2nd Place: Mozter, Singapore: $10,000

3rd Place: Prognosis, Greece: $5,000

Innovation:

1st Place: eFitFashion, Brazil: $50,000 and a Microsoft Ventures Boot Camp

2nd Place: NoObs, Azerbaijan: $10,000

3rd Place: Siymb, United Kingdom: $5,000

Games:

1st Place: IzHard, Russia: $50,000 and a PAX Boot Camp

2nd Place: Kuality Games, Netherlands: $10,000

3rd Place: Thief, China: $5,000

World Citizenship: Virtual Dementia Experience  from Australia

The Virtual Dementia Experience (VDE) simulates the effects of aging and dementia in a virtual environment, so that cognitively intact people can gain an appreciation of the issues confronting people with dementia.

Innovation: eFitFashion, Brazil

The project “Clothes For Me” is an online marketplace developed to sell custom made and tailored clothes in a simpler way. The goal is to increase the development of the ePMG software, which generates patterns of clothes automatically, based on the user’s measurements.

That way, everyone can find clothes that fit perfectly, no matter what type of body they have. The team aims to connect customers, seamstresses and clothing firms all over the world, offering them a channel to get in touch with reliability and security.

Games: IzHard, Russia

OVIVO is a 2D puzzle-platformer. The game world is divided into black and white spaces. With the ability to transit from one color zone to another, the player-controlled character penetrates through the environment’s contours and overcomes obstacles.

Interestingly, this  year, a special award was added to the competition, the Microsoft Imagine Cup “Ability Award.”

 This award celebrates the student team that demonstrates innovation with the potential to drive a more accessible and inclusive workplace and world. In addition to the title, the winners will be given the opportunity to come back to Redmond for an “Ability Bootcamp” – spending time with experts in disability, accessibility and inclusive design from across Microsoft, refining their project and getting invaluable insight.

Team Prognosis from Greece takes home the Ability Award. Prognosis proposes an intelligent ICT-based approach for early Parkinson’s disease detection and early intervention in older adults’ everyday life, promoting active and healthy aging by introducing new ways of health self-managing tools, set within a collaborative care context with health professionals.

The awards ceremony also bestowed the title of Microsoft Student Partner of the year to Jason Chee of Singapore.

The MSP of the Year Award honors the student partner who exhibits advanced technical skills, the quality of the apps they’ve created and the events they’ve organized to reach students in their country. Jason not only received this prestigious recognition, but he also won  $2,000.

One thing is clear. It is hard to believe that today is the last day of the 2015 Imagine Cup World Finals. The students who arrived bleary-eyed on Monday are not the same developers while heading back to their countries today.

They’ve received feedback from experts on how to improve their presentation – and this is where Imagine Cup stands out in a student’s path to entrepreneurship.

As a recent competitor reminded us all, no other technology competition focuses so much on the real-life business aspect of potential apps and games. At Imagine Cup, students turn into entrepreneurs almost without realizing it.

World Championship

For Team Virtual Dementia Experience, Team eFitFashion and Team IzHard, the journey continues to the World Championship round today  where they will vie for the ultimate prize.

 For this final round today,  Microsoft has  lined up a new, spectacular trio of judges: Thomas Middleditch, star of HBO’s “Silicon Valley”; Alex Kipman, Inventor of HoloLens; and Jens Bergensten, Lead Developer of Minecraft.

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