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| From: Ayo Dunmoye <ayodunmoye@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, 22 December 2017 12:34 To: Prof Ayo OLUKOTUN Reply To: ayodunmoye@yahoo.com Subject: Re Private University licences and policy vacuum |
Thanks for your illuminating piece on the problem of" awarding" licences to private Universities. The anomaly goes beyond policy vacuum. There are several interrelated problems. The first, in my considered opinion is the incoherence in the overall educationally policy in Nigeria,from nursery to tertiary level. Policies are disjointed and sometimes convoluted. Then there is the lack of qualified lecturers for the 160 Universities. Many do not possess Doctorate degrees. Qualified ones ,particularly Professors and Senior Lecturers are spread thing . Many serve as Visiting Lecturers in more than two Universities. The new Universities hasten to promote unqualified academic staff to professorial rank just to meet the requirements of NUC. The most disturbing fallout is the regional disparity in the geographical spread of these private Universities.. Ogun State alone has more than ten Universities,but how many are in the entire nineteen northern states?Most of the Universities in the Northern states are either Federal or owned by states. The long term effect of this problem for addressing the educational imbalance between the north and south can best be imagined. It is my considered opinion that NUC must come out with an articulate and comprehensive policy on the recognition of Degree mills in Nigeria, for overall development of the country and to ensure positive inernational ratings for our Universities
Prof R. Ayo Dunmoye Department of Political Science and International Studies, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
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