Terrible story
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Joseph Igietseme <JIGIETSEME@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks VC Bolaji! I was able to access this; and I brushed through the report on the 6 First Generation Universities [UI, UNN, ABU, UNIBEN, UNILAG, & OAU/UNIFE].The functional word is "deplorable" to be generous! These are the relevant questions at this point:1. How did we get here? Is there any reason to wonder why Nigerian universities are increasingly unrecognized in the international academic/scholarship society and why they are rated abysmally low on the world stage of academia?2. Was this deliberate in an educated society like Nigeria?3. Was it sheer ignorance because we didnt know how to maintain or sustain a univerisity? Or was this decay one of the inevitable results of the general national dilemas associated with poor infrastructures?4. Can the VCs who presided over these decays be assembled and asked serious questions?5. Where was NUC and other regulatory and QC organs of the tertiary education system in Nigeria when these decays were formenting and exacerbating? Are the present leaderships of these regulatory agencies aware of this gravity of decay? Are they involved in this needs assessment and report? JUI will certainly ask some these questions during the next visit to NUC!6. Where do we go from here? What does it take to realistically reverse the calamity and prevent its reoccurence especially at the new univerities?Finally, it is obvious that this condition of decay in Nigerian universities will not support any meaning academic research and scholarship in the nation; so the low international rating of Nigerian univerities is not an undounded discriminatory practice by foreign rating agencies; besides, since nations now compete on the basis of innovations in a knowledge-based global village, Nigerian competetitiveness in anything worthwhile [apart from serving as a raw material site for crude oil and other natural resources] is obviously uncertain. And it is a pity considering the massive human potential in that in that country! Take care. JU Igietseme-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:Joe and co:Please try this URL:if you don't have a Skydrive account, and let me know.Best wishes.Bolaji Aluko
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Joseph Igietseme <jigietseme@gmail.com> wrote:VC Bolaji,Do we need to have an account with SkyDive to access this file? That is the experience I am having; some of us are interested in the document; pls provide alternative access to the document. Take care. JUIOn Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:My People:As promised, to view the report for these six First-Generation universities (ABU, UI, UniLag, OAU, UNN and Uniben), please visit:
More universities will come in due course.Thank you.Bolaji Aluko__._,_.___
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