Edipee: Brilliant write-up, but you cannot reap where you did not sow. Let Government meet their demand 1st, thereafter ASUU will be well equipped to carry out your agenda.

Obiagelli:
The only sensible post on this thread so far. Let the government fund the university adequately first and pay lecturers what the national assembly and executives earn, then we would see if they will sell handouts

Obiagelli:
The only sensible post on this thread so far. Let the government fund the university adequately first and pay lecturers what the national assembly and executives earn, then we would see if they will sell handouts

kingviny: F.G, you are the manager of our national patrimony. Please demand these from ASUU:-

1. Their members should stop the selling of handouts, they should make video DVDs of their lectures to serve as a supplementary learning aids for their students.
And this is one of the main demands by ASUU
xi.. . . Provision of Research Equipment to laboratories
and classrooms in our universities.
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2. Each lecturer should have a blog (with threads) like that of Nairaland for him/her to interact with his/her students with for supplementary and effective communication (online Q&A sessions).

Same as No. 1. Research equipments include Projectors in classroom , a functioning webpage or blog or forum and online resources database. Those are demanded by ASUU ████


3. Lecturers should stop seeing themselves as demi-gods but as friends and parents to students. That all sadists and bad teachers (poor teaching skills) among them should be given Jonathan's booth.
More investment in education and infrastructure will see more lecture rooms and more lecturers. If the student-lecturer ratio is at most 20-30 to one than the current 400 to one, u will see better learning relationship between lecturers and students. U will be surprise how friendly most lecturers are when u get close to them ████


4. All exam results must come out within 2 weeks after the completion of all exams so that students can know their results on time and be able to plan better for the next semester.
For a lecturer to handle 600 students to 2 , at different levels when his colleagues abroad are marking at most 30 exams script per semester , don't expect miracles.
Investment in Education will employ more lecturers, and make result compilation more IT based ████


5. Graduates must get their certificates on their convocation day.
that will not be a problem if more lecturers handle fewer students ████



6. That examination should be re-designed to evaluate student's understanding of the course (application) and not student's ability to COPY & PASTE crammed definitions.
Brilliant but how will a students have mastery of what is being taught when he is at the 20th row of the classroom and can barely hear what the lecturer is saying ████


7. Productivity Allowance should only be paid to lecturers with 70% pass rate.
For a chemistry lecturer who was trained in a well equipped lab and class to be teaching students who are using kerosene stove as bunsen burner and 50 students share one test tube, it would be the height of irresponsibility to claim that 70% of your students passed the chemistry exam and could perform most of the experiments by themselves ████

IF ASUU CAN FULFILL ALL THESE 7-POINT AGENDA, F.G, PLEASE DOUBLE THEIR SALARIES.
No. 5 of ASUU demand is EARNED allowances, if FG provide all these and ASUU does not deliver then going by their words, they shouldn't earn their allowances ████


STUDENTS DESERVE THE BEST.
That is why ASUU is on strike to ensure that the certificate given to you is the best worldwide not just a paper to show that u can learn ████
ASUU DOES NOT NEED BILLIONS TO DO THE ABOVE
ASUU will not build lecture rooms are equip the lab or employ more hands , it is the government that is to provide the conducive learning environment for students and lecturers alike and government is failing and THEY KNOW IT ████

, THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TOOLS FOR THESE WITHIN THE SYSTEM.
U call a jam packed classroom or a lab for 500 undergraduates with 5 test tube , tools?
You really need education not what the government is providing for you presently ████



IF ASUU WANTS THEIR MEMBERS TO BE PAID LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD, THEN THEY SHOULD ALSO DEMAND OF THEIR MEMBERS TO WORK LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD.
At last we agree on a point but I will add ' GIVEN THE SAME WORKING AND TEACHING ENVIRONMENT AS THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD ████

ITbomb: I do not see how any of your 7p agenda could save money in the system.

Billions of naira are paid annually as salaries to train half baked graduates and you don't see that as a colossal waste?

I may have to educate you that ASUU is a body of lecturers AND NOT the management of the universities. On my record , SSANU , the senior staff - VCs n co, are not on strike and are even reported to be using consultants to conduct post UTME exams to the dismay of ASUU.

Are SSANU members also not lecturers? I am actually talking about improved service delivery by our lecturers given the limitations which they were aware of before taken up the job. I agree with you that there is the need to improve on infrastructure but the issue is, how best are they making use of the little they have right now.


So the question of accountability is more of SSANU and Min of Education concern than ASUU .

Why the Bulk passing. ASUU should also then indict SSANU and MOE if they really want a long lasting change in the system.
If they succeed in winning more funding that will still be manged by SSANU or MOE, what will be the net gain. What has been the net gain after every strike in this country?

I may add a little politics here that GEJ administration has been the most truthful .whereas before , when government signed the UNESCO charter to allocate at least 10% of the budget to education , didn't they remember that other ministries existed.
What ASUU is even demanding is an implemention of a previously agreed solutions. If government could not execute the agreement , why sign it and deceive Nigerians in the first place.

Deceive Nigerians? or ASUU you mean. Well, I can sympathize with ASUU and that's why they have to take active interest in politics.

If these lecturers are doing the 7 point agenda, their student will then definitely love them. They will trust them to transform this country should they form a political party and contest to wrestle power from the present crop of rulers. Just imagine the magnitude of the combined votes of all their students , parents of their students , friends of their students, tertiary institution workers e.t.c. Even if they don't then win the Presidency, they can try to capture the Assembly and then influence things from there.

We need leadership in this country. Who better than our beloved academics (with international exposures) should be the ones to constitute the critical mass that will galvanize the citizenry to deliver us from the enemies of this potentially great a nation.




What ASUU is demanding is just a conducive learning environment for both students and lecturers so that they can give in their best.

Do you know that with the use of IT tools like Facebook and Youtube, lecturers can improve their service delivery? and it is free to use this tool. They just have to be creative.

With Facebook, a lecturer can open an account for his/her subject and add all his/her students as learning friends. With this tool, they can easily collaborate. Facebook is not just for gossip, let's be creative please.

With Youtube, a lecturer can comfortably sit in his/her office and make use of a class rep to use his/her camera phone to record his/her lecture presentations which will then be uploaded to his/her account with Youtube for easy download and view by his/her students in equally, the comfort of their rooms on campus.

Even this can be used for practicals too so that haven watched the experiments on video, it will then be easy for students to come in batches to the lab to put to practice what they had already watched on video and master it with lesser effort from the lecturer.

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The backbone of any industrial society are the 3 powers - Electric Power , Military Power and Mind Power. Allocating 40% of budget to these 3 is the sure path to greatness. Level playing and its children eg Federal Character has been the bane of development of Nigeria. We need to identify the areas to take us forward and invest massively in it then other sectors will automatically move up.
Eg in electricity , giving power to key industrial cities will progress the country than trying to supply equal power to all the states .

We know this. What in practical terms do we then do about it to change things. Let the change we desire start from us.


Finally as I said , ur 7 point agenda is not workable in Nigeria as u said worked in SA given the present environment.
Nowhere can a lecturer develop personal relationship with 400 students in a one year class.
Nowhere can a lecturer finish compilation of results of 400 students and publish them 2 weeks after exams.
In my opinion no students in Nigerian universities should be given a first class cos they are not even learning in a first class environment.