CLOSE TO 40% OF NIGERIAN LECTURERS ARE UNQUALIFIED--NUC

– The National Universities Commission (NUC) may
now have a lot of work to do in order to make graduates
in the country marketable
– The NUC has revealed that all is not well with the
country’s universities and has proffered some solutions
to the problem
There have been allegations that Nigerian universities
churn out half-baked graduates yearly and the National
Universities Commission (NUC) may have just cracked
the nut.
The regulatory body has revealed that about 40 percent
of lecturers in the country’s universities do not have the
requisite qualification.
NUC said many lecturers are not qualified
According to the body, the requisite qualification is a
PhD, but just about 60 percent of lecturers have it.
The Nigerian Tribune reports that while lamenting this
situation, the NUC further expressed displeasure at the
inability of the universities to generate serious
endowment fund and investments capable of financing
their recurrent expenditure needs.
The report said the commission, through its executive
secretary, Professor Abubakar Adamu
Rasheed, admonished vice chancellors to begin to see
fundraising and mobilisation as an integral part of their
jobs in response to the realities of today.
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Rasheed reportedly spoke as a guest lecturer at the
University of Benin Academic Colloquium, held in
honour of 17 alumni of the institution appointed by the
federal and state governments between 2015 and 2016.
The NUC boss, who was represented by the director of
research in the commission, Dr leiman Ramah, said:
“The critical thinking skills which universities are
expected to instigate in their students constitute a
critical component of the arsenal required if the
Nigerian university system is to live up to expectations
in leading the way in our quest for innovation and
positive change.
“Each academic programme in a university must pay
attention to and incorporate within its curriculum the
commercial and industrial needs and focus of its
discipline.”
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Speaking earlier, the vice chancellor of UNIBEN,
Professor Faraday Orumwense, reportedly said the
university is a resource-based institution.
He said about 17 members of staff have been appointed
into high level positions like minister, vice chancellors,
registrar, bursar, provost and rector, between 2015 and 2016

SAD NEWS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
SOURCE: NAIJ