THE UNIVERSITY

The Lagos State University (LASU) was established in 1984 as a Multi-Campus, Non Residential University, Twenty years after; the university has manifested the dream of its founding fathers, put together in form of the objectives of the University, to meet the peculiar needs of Lagos State as follows:
- To form the apex of the educational system of the State, to provide facilities for learning, and to give instruction and training in such branches of knowledge as the University may desire to foster, and on doing so, to enable students obtain the advantage of liberal education;
- To promote, by research and other means, the advancement of knowledge and its practical application to social, cultural, economic, scientific and technological problems;
- To encourage the advancement in general, and to provide the opportunity for acquiring higher and liberal education.
- To act as a vehicle of development in general, and, in particular, to act as an instrument to efficiently stimulate the development of the State through continuing education, applied research, technical assistance, direct consultation, informational services and internship programs;
- To provide ready access for citizens of the State in particular to higher education, regardless of social origin or income;
- To meet the specific manpower needs of the State;
- To serve as a creative custodian, promoter and propagator of the State’s social and cultural heritage and resources;
- To undertake underground and post-graduate courses in Law, Arts and Social Sciencees, Education, Science, Engineering, Technology and Environmental Design, and Medical Science;
- To enhance the educational opportunities of Lagos State indigenes by admitting students in the following percentages; Lagos State indigines 40% products of the Lagos State’s School system 40% and other Nigerian citizens who are students 20%
- To undertake any other activities appropriate for a University of the highest standard.

THE SCHOOL

The Lagos State University, School of Part-Time (LASU-SPTS) was established in March 2002. Prior to its establishment, LASU had operated various Part-Time programs under the auspices of the various departments, using the facilities in the University, under had become worried about the operations of these various abuses by their operators. In an attempt to streamline and standardize the operations of these programs, a committee was established. This period coincided with the Federal Government’s directive on the closure of the Satellite campuses in the Federation.

With this development, the Lagos State Government and LASU as its apex of educational institutions in the State were challenged to;

- Meet the need of the populace of the State craving for higher education to meet the human resource needs of the commercial and industrial sectors of the State.
- Resolve the problem of manpower requirements of the State as the business/commercial/industrial headquarters of the country,
- Take education nearer and closer to the people of Lagos State through LASU’s Multi-Campus Status by the Edict establishing it, and
- Put LASU in a vantage position through the provision of qualitative educational services.

With the above, the SPTS was established by the University Senate and the Governing Council to operate the various part-time programs approved by the University Senate in its various campuses with the relationship between the School and staff being purely contractual, and the expectation that its operations would not be truncated by strikes knock-outs.