the following objectives:
• To provide access to University education to a large number of potential adults who have missed the opportunity of higher education at the early stages of their lives
• To reduce pressure on enrolment into our Universities which only a tiny fraction (small percentage) of potential candidates are able to secure admission
• To widen opportunities to matured adults to combine together working and learning as many have families and may not be able to obtain support or secure in-service facilities. With these objectives in mind, the Centre set up some few structures thus inviting willing Departments wishing to participate in the Distance Learning Programmes. These Departments were selected based on commitment from the Faculties of Arts, Education, Business and Social Managements. A total of ten (10) Departments took part in the first year of the programmes with student enrolment of two hundred and twenty-one (221). In the second year of the programmes other Departments applied for participation which increased the number of Departments to fifteen (15) with an enrolment of over four hundred (400) students (which almost double the first intake). Seeing the progress made at the Centre within a short period the University Authority requested for the