BUK Student’s dress code; Why and What to wear?

What is BUK’s dress code?

Bayero University Kano, like any other institution of learning in northern Nigeria, enforces dress code within its university community. 

As constituted in the student’s handbook, dress codes portray the design for the role of training students in both characters and learning throughout their studies.

Ultimately, students are however advised to dress decently and well suited for all occasions within and out of the university campus.

 “The way you dress speaks a lot about your identity as a person.”

Why must students abide by BUK’s dress code?

The ideology behind the student’s decent dress code is now across the individual departments, faculties, student associations, academic outings, and aslo solidarity protests.

As a product of their respective understudying professions, it portrays a sense of unity, and good public relations.

“Dress the way you want to be address”

This adage demonstrates how the notions of decent dressing are admired and praised regardless of gender, sex, ethnicity, and origin.

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 Above all, students should demonstrate the evidence of impactful learning in actions, utterances, and appearances. So therefore, they are the ambassadors and goodwill of the institution.

What Bukites must wear?

Bayero University Kano dress code is generic. However, they are a few checklists regarding the choice of dressing. Students;

1. Should cover the body from the top of the shoulders to midway between the knee and the ankle
2. Must not be wear a tight-fitting or transparent outfit.

What is an indecent dressing as regards to BUK’s handbook?

Accordingly, acceptable and decent dress is any type of dress a student will wear that covers the body from top of the shoulders to midway between the knee and the ankle, and also it must not be tight fitting or transparent.

The university hereby, discourage and strictly frown on any indecent dressing within and out of the campus. Below are some of the restrictions to the students dress code.

Students must not wear;

• Bareback, shorts and clinging dresses
• Shorts and three-quarter trousers except for the sporting purpose 
• Tattered jeans and also those with holes
• Transparent dresses
• Singlet in public places
• “Swagger” and/or Sagging trousers
• Dresses which have long slits that reveal sensitive body parts
• Vests and dresses with obscene and indecent inscriptions and/or pictures
• Bare chest revealing dresses 
• Shoes with an indecent inscription
• Sunglasses in lecture rooms and theaters except on medical grounds
• Plaiting/weaving, perming of hair, use of earrings and chain and bracelets by male students.
• Military camouflage on campus
• Dresses that contravenes, decency, decorum, and good taste of the community.

Modesty, being an attitude of propriety, morality and decency in dress, grooming, language, behavior and general way of life, is certainly an indispensable quality in an ideal society. With the implementation of this dress code, the standard of BUK soars even higher!

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