If the current class of students are allowed to rate lecturers, only the corrupt lecturers will remain. Students dislike lecturers doing their job as it should be done. Corruption in the University system in Nigeria thrives because many of the students have no business being there in the first place.
Nkolika Unizik Awka
From: Odigwe Nwaokocha <odigwenwaokocha@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Lecturers more corrupt than politicians – Rector [Verdict on Nigerian Higher Education from a Nigerian Higher Education Rector]
There is indeed a lot of corruption among academics in our higher institutions. Are they worse than politicians? I do not have the facts to enable me reach a conclusion. However, I know the disease is deep and is likely to get worse given the way the powers that be recruit people into our higher institutions. It is a big mess. We can afford to continue pretending about it. It has begun to define and defile the entire system.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:31 PM, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
I would like to hear anyone contradict Dr. Akande's position. In spite of my respect for the calling of university teaching in Nigeria, and knowing full well there is a micro-minority with clean hands, Nigerian lecturers are at least as corrupt as politicians. I may not say they are more corrupt because anyone familiar with Nigerian politicians would find it difficult to imagine a more corrupt institution. If a fraction of what many lecturers in Nigeria do to their students slips to America, not only will they lose their jobs, many would languish in prison. I pray for the day when Ratemyprofessors.com would be a norm among Nigerian higher ed students and mandatory on-line evaluations of every lecturer would be done by students at the end of every course. If the Tenure and Promotion system is based partly on students' evaluations, I think the endemic atmosphere of corruption among university instructors would be minimized.It's my own candid opinion and I am holding on to it.Michael O. AfolayanFrom the Land of LincolnOn Wednesday, November 25, 2015 4:48 AM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <toyinkaidara@gmail.com> wrote:
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Date: 25 November 2015 at 01:49
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Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado EkitiThe Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Dr Theresa Akande, has said tertiary institutions are central to the change agenda in Nigeria because lecturers are more corrupt than politicians.According to her, Intellectuals in higher institutions must be ready to play prominent roles if anticipated changes in certain areas of our societal life must be attained.Speaking on Tuesday at the 10th National Conference of School of Business Studies with the theme: "Anticipated Change(s) in Nigeria: the Roles of Tertiary Institutions," Akande lamented that youth no longer believed in hard work.She said, "Shocking as this will sound, many of the Ad-hoc staff of INEC during elections are usually staff of tertiary institutions. Where is the change coming from? Who are the people to bring the change? Who would implement the change?"For corruption and all other frauds to be eradicated, we must look beyond those who stole in billion and trillion, it should be tackled holistically. Lecturers who inflate marks, mess around with female students, demand sex for marks or make demands for money are corrupt, in fact, more corrupt because they are destroying lives."Students who engage in examination malpractices are corrupt. Staff who report late or absent themselves willfully from work are corrupt."So, all forms of corruption must be battled to a standstill because if this is not done, we will only be scratching the surface of our problems instead of uprooting the very tap root."Akande canvassed strong synergy between the anti-graft agencies and the tertiary institutions to rid them of corruption.The Rector challenged the school of Business Studies and participants to justify the conference by "demonstrating towards the system strong loyalty, accountability, transparency and discipline that will bring about the anticipated changes in our country".The Dean of School of Business Studies, Mr Olabisi Olasehinde, said the conference was a channel for researchers to present their research works, share ideas with colleagues who have similar scholarly interests, network and cross-fertilize to improve the overall quality of teaching and learning.In his lecture, the Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Prof Patrick Oladele, in his lecture, said our orientation must change for the country to move forward."We must embrace culture of integrity and shun impunity. There is need for institutions to create enabling environment for learning. It is not enough that students pass through the walls they must also learn values and knowledge that will make them useful to the society."Training must go beyond certification. Institutions must provide leadership by example. They must be run on the basis of integrity, uprightness, genuinely of purpose, accountability."Tertiary institutions must carry out research regularly to provide solutions to the problems of the nation. They must provide accurate figures and date that government would use in effecting policies. There is need synergy between institutions and industries so that research work would enhance output."Source:Punch__._,_.___
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