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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Gombe State University was established in April 2004. With effect from the Academic session 2005/2006, the Faculty of Science, comprising six departments started functioning. The Department of Mathematics is one of them. It carries out three programmes: B. Sc. (Hons) Computer Science programme is one of the three. The first set of students who first enrolled in the programme has since graduated. After completing the four-year Programme successfully, students will be conferred with the degrees of B. Sc. (Hons) Computer science. The programme have been designed to provide a comprehensive training both in theory and practical taking into consideration the modern trends in the field of Science and Information Technology.

The department possesses well-equipped computer laboratories with more than one hundred Computers (100) for the use of students, research scholars and the staff members.
To begin with, the first set of students the department registered was only 22 students for the Computer Science programme. The number of registered students at various levels for 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 20113/2014 Session is presented below: Computer Science is fundamental to the development of science and technology all over the world today. Computers are used as veritable tools for the advancement of Science and Technology. With the Microprocessor revolution that resulted in the popularity of the personal computers and the popular use of Internet, the knowledge of Computer and Information Technology today is necessary in order to survive the challenge of the digital world. The guiding philosophy behind B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science programme has, therefore been summarized as follows:

  1. To promote teaching and research in Computer Science with an emphasis to meet the educational, economic and social objectives of the State as well as that of the nation as a whole.

  2. To keep pace with expanding frontiers of knowledge across the world.

  3. To provide qualified work force in the country who can take it to new heights in the various developmental activities and thereby increasing the quality of life of the people.

2. PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of Computer Science Programme is based on the discovery of accurate and fast techniques of computation that will improve data processing, information and communication technology to withstand the challenges of the fast growing global economy. Therefore, an adequate knowledge of computer and its application have become inevitable for keeping pace with technologically governed human life. The Mathematics department of Gombe State University provides curriculum for the B. Sc (Hons) Computer Science.

3. MISSION

The mission of the department is to bring out highly skillful, creative and morally sound graduates to add to the human resource that may take the country to new heights in Science and Technology.

3.1 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The programme is designed to achieve the following aims and objectives: * To enable student effectively master the skills and application of Computers and related technologies in both teaching and civil administration * To produce graduates with standard and high moral knowledge to the society and the world at large. * To prepare students for relevant careers for the challenge of the digital world * To, adequately, prepare students for carrying out Postgraduate Programmes in their field of study * To prepare students to, easily, understand and use new innovations in the field of computer and Information Technology.

4. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

6. 1 B. Sc. (Hons) Computer Science

8. REGISTRATION GUIDELINES

  1. Registration of students is a process of giving provisional admission into the university conducted at a central location. The registration process commences with an interview in the faculty where admission is sough, and only those candidates, who are cleared through the interviewing panel, as indicated by a stamp and signature of the Dean, may proceed to the next stage of registration.

  2. At the venue of the central registration, the faculty provides registration staff that checks and ensures that the student is on the admission list before issuing him/her with the university registration form to complete the same and deposit for onward processing. The originals of the following documents must be presented by the candidate at this point:

    • Admission letter and interview clearance slip
    • Academic certificate (SSCE, ‘O’ Level, ‘A’ Level, UME Scores, etc) to confirm that the student fulfills/meets the university, faculty and departmental entry and registration requirements.
    • Students should ensure that their names correspond to the ones that are there on all the certificates presented

  3. Local Government Area of origin declaration.

  4. If satisfied with the candidate’s qualifications and credentials, the Dean and the Admission Officer will sign his/her Registration Form. The student is then required to proceed to the Student Affairs Division for hostel and room allocation or information on off campus accommodation and payment of all fees. Payments are only accepted from students on presentation of duly completed and signed registration forms and admission letters. Note that: All new students must complete, sign and return their matriculation oath before they are considered to have fully registered.

  5. University identity card may then be issued to the’ bona fide’ student of Gombe State University by the Security Office on the presentation of cash office’s carbonized receipt clearly marked “G.S.U. Admission only”.

  6. Candidates are given up to 3 weeks(21 days) time from the commencement of the Semester within which he/she will be given the facility to ADD or DROP some courses (vi) After 21 days of the start of the Semester, the department shall publish for verified list of registered candidates for all the courses offered by the department. The lists of registered candidates shall be forwarded to the Academic Office before the end of the sixth week of the semester. These lists shall be deemed as constituting final registration for the Semester Examinations. This means that by the end of the sixth week, students whose names do not appear in any course list shall not be allowed into examination for that particular course. Similarly, students who got duly registered for a course but failed to take the end-of-Semester examination for the course shall be deemed to have absented themselves from the examination of that particular course, for which grade “F” shall be awarded.

9. EXAMINATIONS

### a. General Information * For appearing in the examination in any course the student must have 75% attendance in that course. * To appear in an examination every student will be issued an examination card on which the various courses in which the student got registered will be printed besides his name and registration number. The photograph of the student will also be there. At the examination venue * The candidate must reach the examination venue at least 30 minutes before the commencement of the examination and while entering the examination hall students must leave outside all books, notes, bags etc outside the hall. They should not carry any written or printed document with them inside the examination hall. * No student will be allowed (i) To enter the examination hall after 30 minutes of the start of the examination. (ii) To leave the examination hall within the first thirty minutes of after the start of the examination.

(iii) To leave the examination hall during the last 15 minutes of the examination. * A student can leave the examination hall after one hour from the commencement of the examination. * A student while sitting for an examination must sign in and while leaving the examination venue must sign out.

ii. All question papers shall be submitted to the Faculty Examination Officer, within the stipulated time agreed by the Faculty Board of Examiners or Faculty Standing Committee.

iii. Examiners shall make available to the Faculty Examination coordinator exact sources of any copyrighted materials used in the question papers set by them. (a) The question papers must be written legibly or typed personally by the examiner himself. (b) The course number and titles of papers in each subject must conform to the numbers and titles in the university handbook

iv. The Chief Examiner in each subject shall be responsible for the correctness of the question papers. All corrected proofs must be signed by the Chief Examiner.

The Duties of external examiners shall be as follows:

  1. The standard of the examinations;
  2. The standard of the marking by the internal Examiners;
  3. The standard of project or course work when examined;
  4. The pass list and any honors classification;
  5. A critical appraisal of the conduct of the examination, with suggestions for improvement of future occasions; and any other matters that call for comments.

Examination Offences

  1. If any candidate is suspected of cheating, receiving assistance or assisting other candidates or infringing any other examination regulation, a written report of the circumstances shall be submitted by the Chief Examiner to the Dean of Faculty concerned, who shall, if he deems it necessary, refer the matter to the Faculty Committee for Examinations Malpractice/IrComputerities to investigate and report back to the Faculty Board, in line with paragraph 5(iii).

  2. Any candidate suspected shall be required to submit to the Chief Invigilator a written report immediately after the paper. Failure to make a report shall be regarded as an admission of the charge against him.

  3. Where the Dean has reason to believe that the nature of question or the content of any paper may have become known before the date and time of the examination to any persons other than the examiners of the paper, the Board of Examiners an official of the university authorized to handle the paper, he may 'order the suspension of the examination or the cancellation of the paper or the setting of a new paper and shall report the matter to the Senate.

  4. If, in the opinion of an Invigilator, circumstances arise which render the examination unfair to any candidate, he must report the matter to the Dean within 24 hours after the examination.

  5. Where a matter is reported to the Dean, he may take such action as he thinks fit."He may direct that another examination be held, under the circumstances.

  6. Any candidate or member of the academic staff may complain to the Chancellor that an examination has been improperly conducted. The Vice-
    Chancellor shall investigate the complaint and report the result of the investigation to Senate, which shall takes such actions, as it may deem appropriate.

  7. Where the Vice-Chancellor is satisfied that any person has committed a breach of any of these Regulations, such a person shall be deemed to have committed an examination offence and the Vice-Chancellor may:

    • Authorize the Registrar to give public notice of the fact that such an
      offence has been committed by that person, or to give private notice to that person; or
  1. Examination Malpractice The names of all those students found guilty of examination malpractice and the punishments meted to them shall be published on notice boards.

5. RESULTS

The Course Credit System

The course credit system (i.e. the course unit system) has been in operation in the university since its inception.

(i) Definition The Course Credit System is a quantitative system of organization of the curriculum in which subject areas are broken into unit courses which are examinable and for which students can earn credits, if passed The courses are arranged in progressive order of difficulty or in levels of academic progress e.g. level 1 or 100 level or year 1 are 100,101,102 etc. and level II or 200 level or year II course are 200,201,202 etc. [including core, restricted, unrestricted electives, cognates courses etc.]

(ii) Academic Calendar The Senate is the only authority in the university to approve the academic calendar and an academic calendar is called a session. The session is made up of two (2) semesters. A Semester is between 16-18 weeks or half academic year.

Every full-time student is required to register for a minimum of 18 credit units per semester. Before a student is eligible for graduation he/she must earn between 144 -192 credit units if he/she started from 100 level and 108-144 credit units if started from 200 levels (DE).

(iii) Core Courses: These are courses that the student must register and pass them before graduating (Compulsory courses). General Courses: These are courses offered by all students at a particular level and must pass them before graduating (Compulsory courses).

(iv) Elective Courses: These are optional courses for students to help them make up the minimum credit units for registration and not necessary to pass before graduating hence non carry-over courses as they are called

(v) Grade Point (GP)

The Grade Point derives from actual percentage raw score for a given course. The raw sore is converted into a letter grade and finally a grade point. According to the new Nigerian University Commission (NUC) Guidelines, now 44-00 is fail (F) ,as such there is no pass degree. Below is example of CGPA computation in line with the new NUC guidelines.