Access: University Education and Nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000,
University of Calgary Press, 2011, by Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu. I have just
reviewed the book for brother A. B. Assensoh, book review editor, Africa Today
and African and Asian Studies.
Ike Udogu
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From: OLADMEJI ABORISADE <olaaborisade@msn.com>
Date: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:03 am
Subject: FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UK RELEGATED SOME NIGERIAN
UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
To: USAAfricaDialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
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> From: olaaborisade@msn.com
> To: james.makinde@gmail.com; niyiarije@yahoo.com; dijiaina@yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UK RELEGATED SOME
> NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:37:44 -0500
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> Please sir allow me to make a few observations on your reaction to
> the "Discussion on: UK Relegated Some Nigerian Medical Programs".
> It is true that Private Universities make substantial progress in
> North America and elsewhere around the globe. You mentioned Yale,
> Brown, Stanford as excellent examples of private Universities that
> carry heavy weight.Yes. You are right. But you missed the salient
> issue which is the gap when the University was Founded and the Time
> their Medical programs began. Private Universities started in
> Nigeria in 1999. Just barely 12 years. Brown University was
> Founded in 1764 and started its Medical Program in 1811, a period
> of 47 years. Yale University was Founded in 1701 and started its
> Medical Program in 1810, a period of 109 years. Stanford University
> was Founded in 1885 and started its Medical Program in 1908 a
> period of 23 years. I work at a Universirty with 25,000 students
> and Founded 65 years ago, no Medical Program, no Law Program
> yet.You did not put your argument according to my submission and
> that of those who reacted. Our problem in Nigeria today is
> concentrated very heavily on literates. The problem is how to get
> message across to them in a simple manner/way. Institutions here
> see the need to operate programs but with a caveat that there must
> be Teachers/Infrastructures on the ground. As long as we continue
> to ignore the purpose of Education as Training for " Civil
> Society", Nigeria is likely to be carrying too much load that
> eventually we may all regret. The purpose of Private Universities
> is not for commercial endeavor but to help build a Nation. That was
> my argument in my submission that we should not run the Race of
> Quantity but Quality. FROM 12 YEARS AGO WHEN pRIVATE UNIVERSITIES
> STARTED IN nIGERIA, SOME OF THEM HAVE probably more than 5,000
> students.If you calulate the student Teacher Ratio/Facilities, Iam
> sure, you may shake your head. The race for money will destroy our
> beauty. From discussion elsewhere, these Universities were warned
> by the NUC and the Medical Council in Nigeria. No Teachers. No
> Facilities. No Vision. I hope you understand that British Medical
> Council did not discriminate against these Universities, they have
> told them the blunt TRUTH. oladimeji aborisade.
>
>
>
>
> CC: niyiarije@yahoo.com; dijiaina@yahoo.com; alemikae@yahoo.com
> From: james.makinde@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UK RELEGATED SOME
> NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:00:06 +0100
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; olaaborisade@msn.com
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> RELEGATION OF NIGERIAN MEDICAL PROGRAMS
>
>
>
> I read with a tinge of sadness, Prof. Aborisade's write-up on the
> relegation of certain high name Nigerian universities Medical
> Schools from the UK medical council register and I felt a new wave
> of the shame that had been mine as well as that of many compatriots
> since the late 1980s. The slide down the pathway to proliferated
> mediocrity and Academic impoverisation of Nigerian education is not
> the result of a heart attack or an 'instant death' syndrome but a
> gradual process of intellectual morbid obesity occasioning
> collateral complications, and I will not repeat quality points
> already well chronicled by my brother and friend, Prof. Alemika who
> has walked his talk by devoting his entire lifetime up to this
> point to correcting those very ills within the system. I suscribe
> fully to his analysis in its entirety and will even use it
> elsewhere because of its logical sequencing of pertinent historical
> facts. The problem with obesity, as we all know, is that the
> obvious esthetic disfigurement and physical discomfort it causes
> often distract attention from the myriad more serious and sometimes
> fatal attendant ailments. Program or institutional relegation by a
> reputable foreign registration council is unquestionably bad but
> more grievous are the vexing underlying issues which dog our
> society and fester the sores of underdevelopment and social evils.
>
>
> The conceptual refocussing required for a comprehensive 'mise au
> point' of issues raised by Professor Aborisade concerning the
> quality, contribution and competence of private universities within
> the Nigerian university system however is critical if we are not to
> set the vehicle of progress in reverse motion. To begin with, the
> high sounding names of Ivy League institutions in the United States
> which we all love to cite as references of intellectual
> accomplishments are largely private institutions or started out as
> one - Harvard, Yale, Brown, Stanford, etc...). Secondly, no
> monopolistic, monolithic or archaic economic or political structure
> has ever proved efficient or progressive anywhere in world history
> without the benefit of a robust competition within the framework of
> established regulations and ethical traditions. The Nigerian
> telecommunications revolution referenced in the said write-up was
> not achieved by NITEL, the governmental communications octopus but
> by MTN, Globalcom, Zain and whatever other identities were assumed
> by private investors when that sector of the economy was
> liberalized to welcome private initiative. It was not therefore
> simply a victory for technology (which usage had for long become
> commonplace to every shoemaker and roadside roasted plantain seller
> in Benin Republic and in Ghana), but for the market economy which
> accommodated stimulative competition in place of the restrictive
>
>
> There can be no gainsaying my appreciation to Professor Aborisade
> on the one hand, for calling attention to NOT FORGET this ugly
> reminder to the systematic, systemic developmental decline of the
> Nigerian university over the past thirty years of sustained civil
> war aftershocks unleashed by the Nigerian military during its
> disastrous occupation, destabilization and devastation of the
> Nigerian political space. My immeasurable appreciation to Prof.
> Aborisade on the other hand, his obvious (implied) dislike for,
> distrust of, and misgivings on private universities
> notwithstanding, constrains me to publicly reveal a little very
> private secret that very people are privy to but which his natural
> humility will not allow him to brag of: Aborisade was ironically
> God's singular instrument in transforming the Decree 9 of 1993
> (enabling law for establishment of private universities) into
> quality reality.
>
>
> Here's the connect. When Nigeria's Babcock University won the All
> Africa Students Union 2011 Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Award as
> Africa's Best Private University in October, some public
> commentators expressed little surprise given the fact that having
> won the National Universities Commission (NUC) 3rd overall Best
> Research & Development Prize at the 2010 edition of the Nigerian
> Universities Research and Development Fair (NURESDEF) held at the
> UNN, Nsukka, and having also been listed 12th on the 2011
> Webometric ranking of Nigeria's 117 universities - way ahead of all
> but ten Federal Universities and one State university, Babcock,
> many said it was nothing spectacular but it was only taking
> advantage of its being the first private university campus
> inspected and later licensed along with two others in 1999. So as
> Nigeria's first private university to admit and graduate students
> in accredited programs in May 2003, Babcock was reputedly reaping
> dividends from its premier status like the University of Ibadan did
> for the public system. We will dwell neither on the polemics nor
> the logic or validity of that argument but simply transit into its
> functional application to historical facts of the rise of private
> universities and their invaluable contribution to revive Nigeria's
> moribund university system.
>
>
> Now upon my return to full-time ministry at the little Adventist
> Seminary of West Africa, Ilishan-Remo in 1991, my major assignment -
> beyond preaching and teaching - was to prepare and process for
> approval the Proprietors' application for Babcock University, of
> which I later was called to serve as pioneer Deputy Vice Chancellor
> in 1999 and President/Vice Chancellor since February 2006.
> Considering that I as at then had not the least ambition for a
> career in academics, but ended up (through no fault of mine)
> becoming the prime mover of the nation's first successful private
> university dossier, the real culprit must be identified. For
> Aborisade it was who then at the University of Ife (now Obafemi
> Awolowo University or OAU for short) as visionary Head of the
> Department of Public Administration and later Dean of the Faculty
> of Administration, saw 20 years into the future and fished me out
> of my post-U.S Graduate School pastoral ministry calling into the
> Graduate Assistantship of the University of Ife in 1982, coaxed me
> into the French Government doctoral fellowship exam on which I ran
> my PhD program at the Centre d'Etudes d'Afrque Noire of the
> Institut d'Etudes Politiques de l'Universite de Bordeaux I. The
> phenomenal success of that bilateral franco-nigerian cooperation is
> evidenced by the fact that, that same program produced the likes of
> Prof. Bamitale Omole (now OAU Vice Chancellor), Prof. Jibrin
> Ibrahim, Director-General of the NGO Center for Democratic
> Development in Abuja, Prof. Massoud Omar, Head of Local Government
> Studies at Ahmadu Bello University and two former Deans of the
> Faculty of Administration of the Obafemi Awolowo University - Prof.
> Emeka Nwokedi and Prof. Bamidele Ayo, both most sadly now resting
> from their labors.
>
>
> On grounds of ascending liability as mentor as life career path
> modifier to one who played a key role in the birth and nurture of
> private universities in Nigeria, therefore if the experience is
> more of a national liability than asset, then Professor Aborisade
> more than any other needs to plead 'Guilty as charged'. If private
> universities compound rather confront headlong Nigeria's problems
> in the education sector, in not increasing quality access to
> quality university education, by not stabilizing the university
> calendar violently distorted by academic and non-academic staff
> strikes, student 'alutta' and murderous campus gang warfare, by
> providing thousands of specialized and general jobs in a shrinking
> global economy, by reducing social tension in taking off
> intelligent potential criminal minds off the streets and converting
> them into productive creative entrepreneurs and employers of labor,
> by stimulating competition for greater efficiency providing public
> universities a comparative environmemt and performance measurement
> yardstick, etc..., etc.., then Professor Aborisade is self-
> indicted. But now it is not so. Nigerian private universities are
> fast becoming a pride to Nigeria on the continent. As a matter of
> fact, in twelve short years, the institutional phenomenon that the
> public universities arrogantly dismissed as "glorified secondary
> schools" in 1999, they now regretfully disdain as "elitist"
> enclaves for the rich. The reason most experienced academics
> retire soon as they can and move to Babcock and other private
> universities, the harder work and rigorous accountability
> notwithstanding, goes beyond the competitive remuneration and
> "opportunity to moonlight" across the campuses. It depends more on
> the peaceful, stable, conducive teaching and learning environments,
> dynamic institutional vision, more challenging personalized goals
> and objectives, and results-oriented interaction with students.
>
>
> Lastly on the de-listed medical programs and integrity of the
> accreditation processes and standards by the National Universities
> Commission and the Medical & Dental Council of Nigeria, the main
> critical error in the write-up as pointed out by Alemika, was
> overlooking the fact that the British action was only a follow-up
> to the Nigerian originating action. More importantly is the fact
> that only one of the universities medical programs affected was
> private (which accreditation was already denied by both the
> National Universities Commission andmthe Medical and Dental Council
> of Nigeria). Then, the overgeneralized assessment verdict on the
> poverty of resources of private universities was not back by any
> facts and was actually for some private universities an outright
> contradiction of the reality on ground.
> Babcock University's Benjamin S. Carson Sr., School of Medicine is
> opening its doors to its pioneer students in January 2012 and has
> mobilized resources far superior in quality and numbers to most
> other older medical schools in Nigeria.
> The current reality of Nigeria is that healthcare and medical
> education are no longer mere social issues but now equally a
> national security matter as well as national economic disaster.
> With an abundance of extremely fertile land Nigeria still imports
> food. As one of OPEC's largest producers of the best light crude
> oil in the world Nigeria still imports fuel. The United States of
> America's 340 million people have an average life expectancy of 92
> years and over 6,000 universities and colleges to Nigeria's 47 year
> average lifespan for its 167 million people sharing 117
> universities and equally disproportionate medical training
> facilities. These are the hard realities of the Nigerian situation
> if comparison with the United States is to be made meaningful.
> Let anybody that dares come back in five shorter years to see what
> the Benjamin S. Carson School of Medicine would have established a
> Medical Tourism industry to force a visible reversal of the current
> trend of possibly over $100 million annual foreign exchange
> officially deplete the nations's foreign reserves.
>
>
> FOREIGN MEDICAL TREATMENT CASUALTY LIST.
> Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu - Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK
> November 26, 2011 - Stroke
> Simbiat Abiola - London, UK, 1992 - Cancer
> Miriam Babangida - UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dec
> 27, 2009
> Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida - Germany/France
> Stella Obasanjo, Oct 23, 2005 Puerto Banus, Marbella Spain -
> Cosmetic Surgery (Liposuction)
> Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, King Faisal Hospital, Saudi Arabia
> Pericardiatis/Stroke, sometime Dec 2009/Jan 2010 Declared dead, May 5
> Tayo Aderinokun - London, GTB Co-Founder/GMD,UK June 14, 2011
> Cancer/StrokeAlhaji Liadi Adekunle Haruna Elewi, Jan 27, 2005
> Former Min for Telecommunications- In the plane en route London,
> UK Malaria Treatment, 2005
> Abdul Karim Adisa - Luton, UK (Feb 25, 2005)
> Ex- Oyo State Gov;Fed Min for Works (Car Accident)
> Gani Fawehinmi - Cancer Misdiagnosis, London, UK
> Mohammed Alabi Lawal, Former OG Mil Gov; Ex Gov Kwara State
>
>
> Fellow compatriots, the salvation of the Nigerian university will
> never come through government. Like the liberalized
> telecommunications sector where a federal Minister of
> Communications was once quoted as saying that the telephone is not
> for poor people (same visionless minister is now presiding over
> Nigeria's National Assembly to make laws not for poor people),
> Babcock University and other private institutions will return the
> glory of this country to a level higher than its highest ever level.
> In another twelve years, come back to tell me your verdict.
>
>
>
>
> FROM THE OFFICE OF:
> J.A. Kayode MAKINDE, PhD., MPhil., M.A., .M.A
> Professor of Politics, Administration & Religion
> PRESIDENT/VICE CHANCELLOR
> BABCOCK UNIVERSITY
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 27, 2011, at 19:28, dijiaina@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
>
>
> From: Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com>
> Sender: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:55:42 -0800 (PST)
> To:
> usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>ReplyTo:
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> Cc: alemikae@yahoo.com<alemikae@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UK RELEGATED SOME
> NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
>
>
>
> I appreciate your taking time to reflect on the massive disgrace
> that passes for the Nigerian educational system today. You have
> said it and you have said it well and you are to be applauded for
> that. However, with all due respect there is nothing new here that
> has not been said before. We are a nation blessed, some would say
> cursed with (too) many talking heads. g;We are fast becoming a
> nation of MBAs, Master Bull Artists, willing to talk our way glibly
> to fat bank accounts. We know what to do, we have brilliant ideas,
> we just do not want to do anything about it. Education is just one
> aspect of our life as a nation that has been neglected, you know
> the rest. Nigerians love to talk nonstop until the problem solves
> itself. Then we claim credit for the victory. That is how we killed
> Abacha. The bombings will stop insha Allah. Because we are talking
> nonstop about them. Mark my words ;-)
>
>
> We know now that pretty words are a poor substitute for the real
> work of nation-building. There is hope in the education sector,
> however slim. As nations like Britain and the US take urgent steps
> to protect themselves from the broken products of Nigeria's pretend-
> universities, we may be forced reluctantly to attend to the work of
> making them competitive. In my darkest days I pray that the West
> imposes a no-fly zone over Nigeria so that children of professors,
> the political and intellectual elite would be forced to live in the
> mess there. Only then will there be progress. In the meantime the
> children of the dispossessed continue to be traumatized in
> 'classrooms" by ASUU thugs.
>
>
> We also pray for technology to rescue us from the murk just as
> cellphones and the Internet saved us from the incompetence and
> greed of our leaders. I don't mean to sound disrespectful of your
> thoughts; it is just that Nigerian intellectuals are part of the
> problem here, a big part. And many of them are here spouting off
> while I hold their children here for them in the United States for
> safekeeping against their toxic classrooms. Tennessee Williams once
> said, "If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man
> who wrote it." And vice versa. I salute you sha.
>
>
> - Ikhide
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "alemikae@yahoo.com" <alemikae@yahoo.com>
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 8:56 AM
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UK RELEGATED SOME
> NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Prof Aborishade
> Your recommendations are apt.
>
> The action of UK was based on an earlier decision by the Nigerian
> Medical and Dental Council withdrawing accreditation of the
> universities and recognition of their graduates. The implication is
> that even in Nigeria graduates from medical programmes in the
> universities since 2010 are not recognized and will not be able to
> practice medicine in the country until required deficiencies are
> rectified. Most of the universities suffered the fate due to the
> indiscipline of the university authorities. They admitted students
> far higher than the quota alloted to them based on capacity --
> infrastructure, staffing in preclinical and clinical phases of
> training.In most federal universities, the vice-chancellors control
> admissions and recklessly exceed capacity without sanction from
> JAMB and NUC. Excessive admission is eroding the quality of
> professional courses, especially medicine and law, that parents and
> students consider as "prestigious and rewarding" in an increasingly
> materialistic and individualistic amoral Nigerian society.
>
>
> Nigeria's education system can be rescued if we take urgent
> measures in the following areas:
> 1. revitalize public primary and secondary education systems
> 2. Make teaching in public primary and secondary schools attractive
> 3. Upgrade and maintain quality and relevance of curriculla at all
> levels of education
> 4. Promote industrialization and modernized agricultural production
> to provide jobs for secondary school graduates so as to reduce the
> pressure on universities to admit high number of persons who are
> ill-prepared for university education and far beyond their capacity
> and resources
> 5. Introduce 1-2 years post-secondary techical and vocational
> education training institutes to develop practical skills of young
> persons to enhance their prospect for employment and entrepreneurship
>
> At the university level:
> 1. Excessive admissions should be discontinued. No lecturer should
> teach a class with more than 80 students. Larger enrolments should
> be divided into sections. In many federal universities, lecturers
> in arts and social sciences teach classes with more than a thousand
> students in a lecture room designed for less than 200 students,
> without projectors and audio amplifying facilities. This is a major
> source of frustration and indiscipline among students and
> lecturers. In the circumstance, it is difficult to enforce
> accountability.2. Adopt delibertate policy of consolidation instead
> of expansion. Nigerian universities are grossly understaffed and a
> substantial proportion of the lecturers are not adequately gifted,
> trained, disciplined, motivated and competent for their roles.
> Universities should halt expansion in terms of introduction of new
> courses, rationalize existing courses, and develop requisite
> capacity to reverse the decline.
> 3. Localization and indigenization of the position of vice-
> chancellors in federal universities should be discotinued so that
> competent persons may lead the university system
> 4. Libraries require urgent upgrading in terms of volume, range and
> timeliness of acquisition. Electronic journal acquisition and
> internet access on campus should be given priority
> 5. More transparent merit based promotion system that takes into
> account quality of teaching, quality of teaching materials,
> research, publication in reputable international and national
> journals, participation in national and international professional
> associations, contribution to national and community development
> through research, advocacy and activism should be adopted and
> appropriately implemented
> 4. Attendance and presentations at international conferences should
> be promoted and supported
> 5. University authorities and ASUU should strengthen their
> disciplinary mechanisms to deal with unethical and unprofessional
> practices in the system. The effort by ASUU to eliminate sale of
> handout to regular undergraduate students has been largely
> successful and should be sustained. Parents need to be enlightened
> to realize that sale of handout has been drastically reduced.
> However due to the poor state of the libraries, many lecturers who
> invest in acquisition of new books and journals for their personal
> use allow interested students to photocopy portions that are
> relevant to their courses. Such lecturers are not involved in any
> financial transactions with the students
> 6. Quality of graduate training needs to be improved through
> constantly reviewed curricula, competent delivery, rigorous
> assessment and supervision, mentoring, improved library facilities
> and acquisition
> 7. Tutorial system should be re-introduced, it gradually
> disappeared in the 1980s due to large classes and shortage of
> lecturers. Teaching assistant system should be introduced for this
> purpose and also for the improvement of graduate training
> 8. Regular department and faculty seminars should be required and
> supported by university authorities
> 9. Acceptance of self-published books, articles in journals without
> credible peer-review process and wide access for promotion at
> senior academic position levels should be discouraged
>
> Nigerian educational system has steadily declined since early
> 1980s. Serious attention should be given to the revitalization of
> public primary and secondary education systems in Nigeria
> in order to reverse the education crisis that constitutes the most
> serious threat to the security, sovereignty, competitiveness,
> development and survival of Nigeria, now and in the future
>
> Etannibi Alemika
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
>
>
> From: OLADMEJI ABORISADE <olaaborisade@msn.com>
> Sender: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:11:01 -0500
> To: USAAfricaDialogue<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> ReplyTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UK RELEGATED SOME NIGERIAN
> UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
>
>
> oladimeji aborisade: UK RELEGATED SOME NIGERIAN
> UNIVERSITIES MEDICAL PROGRAMS.
> The General Medical Council of the United Kungdom relegated
> some Nigerian Universities Medical Programs with serious result.
> Trained Medial Doctors from such Universities are prohibited from
> practicing their professions in the Uniited Kingdom when infact, it
> is not their fault. It takes time to build reputation and less
> time to destroy it. Some of these institutions were built strongly
> but politicians have acted wrongly in many respects. Is the
> relegation to serve as a lesson? Or as a wake up call to other
> Universities in Nigeria? Or as a serious threat to the integrity
> of the approving authotities such as the National Universities
> Commission, the Federal Ministry of Education, and the Governments-
> Federal/ State/ Private.
> There are at least 117 Universities in Nigeria and all of
> them aspire to eventually run Medical Programs . The National
> Universities Commission on behalf of the Federal Government
> inspect, and approve University Programs based on the Minimum
> standard which must be strictly followed. The result of inspecting
> and approving programs not based on the Minimum Standard is
> chaotic. Infact, the failure of both the NUC and the State
> Governments of OYO/OSUN to critically assess the rift between the
> two states resulted in a prolonged number of years for the Medical
> Students. Now this University is blacklisted. I hope the students
> will one day gather themselves together and take legal action
> against the two states for dereliction of duty. But the two
> unvisionary Governors-Akala/Olagunsoye are no longer in power. The
> damage is hanging.
> My experience in North America and Europe tells me that
> not all their Univerities have Schools/Colleges of Medicine, Law,
> Pharmacy and even Nursing. In Nigeria, Univerities run virtually
> all the estabilished programs on earth except perhaps programs
> that have not been created. This is wrong from the side of the NUC/
> Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Education. Education
> is not a race of quantity but quality. It is rather unbelievable
> to approve Medical Program for Private Universities in Nigeria.
> Private Universities began in 1999. Just 12 years ago. Some of
> them do not have 50% of their academic Staff as full time. Most of
> them run all the programs. Effective monitoring and supervision
> may be seriously in danger.
> Under the present condition, I offer the following suggestions:
> 1. That the NUC should review the Minimum Standard approved for
> Universities in Nigeria during the era of Essien Udom, 1980s. I
> served on this commission.
> 2. Multiple TeachinG assignments by Retired or Serving professors
> should be discouraged. If anyone is to be effective, one
> Institution is ADEQUATE TO TEACH. If the NUC adopts this, many
> programs will die naturally and effeciency will replace
> ineffectiveness.3. Private Universities should be discouraged from
> offering all programs. There is need for maturity/ abnormally.
> Education is not a money making venture.
> 4. The NUC/ Federal /State/ Private must realise that the main
> purpose of Education is to have a civil society. This can be
> achieved only when a lot of resources are put into Education. The
> Federal Government must do more in funding Education in Nigeria and
> discourage the Private/ State Universities from charging fees
> heavily.5. If proper care is not taken, Nigeria may loose more on
> their international educational reputation and the shift may move
> from Medical to all other programs.
> 6.Retirement for Academics must be reviiewed to allow a retired
> teacher to remain in the same University and teach without holding
> administrative position and blocking the promotion of incoming
> teachers.Thank you,
> Professor Oladimeji Aborisade.
> University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
> Phone: 704.398.9907. Email: olaaborisade@msn.com
>
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