Everyone and every group is entitled to their opinion. Sometimes however, the expression of an opinion is a misuse of the right to express an opinion. The email below reports is one such wasteful enterprise.
University lecturers have a contractual relationship with their employers and not students. Duly enrolled students have a contractual relationship with their institutions and not their lecturers. Students’ anger and frustration should rightly be directed at their institutions’ authorities. It is not unusual during a prolonged strike by lecturers, for many to forget that lecturing is a job that should pay a fair wage in non-hostile working environment. Lecturing is a job. Lecturers therefore deserve to be treated with fairness and dignity. Lecturers are usually some of the country’s better educated/qualified, and rational employees and therefore deserving of sincere appreciation and great treatment. Those who know, acknowledge the dignity of labor. Lecturing is deserving of dignity.
All manners of blackmail is usually visited on striking lecturers. Is it not about time that some blackmail is visited on university authorities? What is usually forgotten is that lecturers do not resort to industrial action as a first resort. They do after their best constructive effort has been ignored or rejected.
Students are advised to use their leverage and time better by siding with their lecturers and not blackmail them into accepting unjust compensation and work conditions, This might cause institutions’ authorities to oblige on the usually reasonable demands of lecturers.
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of toyin adepoju
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [OmoOdua] Varsity students want lecturers’ union scrapped
You are not serious.
If the lecturers are unfulfilled, the worse it will be for the students.One can give the impression of teaching diligently but do little to aid student comprehension. For example, you can simply face the board and talk to the board, write copiously on that board, but make no effort to make the lecture intelligible to the students. Without ASUU, Nigerian lecturers are likely to in trouble. A good part of the improvements in the working conditions of academics in Nigeria has been achieved through ASSUU strikes. Lecturing used to be looked down upon even by students because of poor pay.ASUU's efforts have been central to reversing that over about one decade.
toyin
On 9 February 2011 05:24, Stepping Stone Outfit <steppingstoneoutfit@yahoo.com> wrote:
Students Union government of Olabisi Onabanjo university addressing a press conference. In the middle is the union president, Rufai Uthman. Photo:DIMEJI KAYODE-ADEDEJI
Varsity students want lecturers’ union scrapped
| Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji February 8, 2011 11:48PM |
The students of Olabisi Onabanjo University{OOU}, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday called for the scrapping of the university’s Academic Staff Union of Universities {ASUU}, accusing the lecturers of intransigence on their prolonged strike.
Addressing a press conference in Abeokuta, the state capital, Rufai Uthman, the students union president, in company of other executives of the union, said, “Lecturers should henceforth be treated on individual basis; the union should not be operational anymore in the interest of the innocent students and academic activities.”
While calling on the striking lecturers to consider the students’ plight and return to the classrooms, the students appealed to the lecturers to also shift ground on their insistence in getting all outstanding salaries before resuming.
Mr. Uthman added that, “we are not saying that they should not get their money, but not to the detriment of students.” He claimed that about 116 lecturers out of an estimated 350 have signified their intention to return to work, appealing to their colleagues to do the same. Similarly, the students body called on the state government to make the lecturers happy by paying what the authority owed them.
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