lastmessenger: As a student of the federal polytechnic nekede owerri, buying handout and notebook turned textbook was a normal thing.we couldnt do anything about it because those who earlier tried to resist the buying of textbook were either victimised or labelled bad boys.seeing how it is,we kept cool,prayed for the years to run fast so that we could graduate and that was exactly what happened.

I graduated in the year 2009 from mechanical engineering department.i bought a 3 page photocopied material for 300 naira from one Mr Dele just because we resisted to buy it for 100.to punish us we,he increased it to 300naira and we got no choice but to buy it.Engr Adikwandu was an intelligent lecturer but he wanted to force to buy his book two times.understand me,we bought the book at the rate of 2300naira during national diploma.when we came back for HND he insisted that we would buy the book the second time.we begged him to take 500naira from everyone of us so as not to repeat buying the book.in the end we discovered the textbook that he copied his own textbook from(i mean word to word).these lecturers were busy extorting money to give grades.in my class intelligent ones managed to make lower credit or at most upper credit while those who couldnt define a term in mechanical engineering were making distinction.some of the girls got their grades by sleeping with some of the lecturers.

Indeed my lecturers were mean and wicked and God knows that it will not be well with them until they repent.Mr Dele your are a fool and you cannot go beyond where you are.Engr Adikwandu Aba that your textbook 'Technology of properties of engineering material' is a copy work.go and sit down and write your own textbook.if here is America you will go to jail for copying an authors word to word.Go and get a life and stop feeling inferior.

Infact i hate all my lecturers back then except one.Engr Nkwazemi you were more like a father to us.hold on to your interity,the rest of the lecturers should go to hell expecially Engr Nobert Nworie:you are too lazy and i hate you.the rest them are after money or what is under the skirt.GOD WILL JUDGE U ALL IN THAT DEPARTMENT

Sir-Tunechi:

the lecturers in your school don't do it, so why are you forming commando for another person's problem na. Or is she your girlfriend ?

boay:

Are you saying lecturers should be allowed to sell hand outs to students and keep the money in their own purse? Remeber these hand outs are copied from textbooks, lecturers dont have copyright on them. Is it not a way of milking students?

boay:
Funny:......
*laughing*
I hate extortion with passion.

Prince Justice:
Well, the good thing is that there is no form of compulsion

yemmit90:

You don't get the message, he/she was indirectly telling you that if you don't buy your handout from lecture that recommended it, you are in for it.

dabrake: "It is not compulsory but you will use it for your CA."

boay: Hello Nairalanders
It is not a subject of debate whether hand outs are being sold to students in some tertiary institutions in Nigeria. In my school(OAU), lectures dont sell hand out to students but they sometimes release material for the class representative to make photocopy so that other students can also do the same. NO COMPULSION

I was very surprised when I listen to my friend from a polytechnic(FEDPOFFA) who narrated her ordeal about buying hand outs. According to her hand outs are means of passing exams automatically, atleast the lecturer will give you a pass mark if your name is among those who bought his/her hand outs.

Here are my questions:
1. Is it lawful for lecturers to sell hand outs?
If NO
2. What is NANS doing about it?
3. How can we fight against this?
4. What is the situation in your school. Kindly include the name.
Thanks

Didi 5: op and his oau agenda.....

houstonia:

THE RAGE OF A WOMAN.... I planned on selling handouts When I eventually become a Lecturer, but after all this cursing and swearing, walahi I no go sell tuition seff, MY LECTURES WOULD BE FREE

mad nigerian:

1.It is not lawful for university lecturers to sell hadouts. Sadly our university libraries are bare...and do not have enough materials for students. Additionally, not every university has internet access. Finally, the fact that we run an economic system that is based on oil and not on innovation means that students enter universities just to get paper qualifications...which means just doing a course to pass it, not to learn from it.

2.I wonder....NANS cannot do anything about it. Has NANS shown any interest in how universities are funded.?

3.Simples. By improving funding for universities. By getting our economy from an oil dependent one into an innovative one...which would lead to students going to university to learn...not to get paper qualifications, and lecturers training students to solve problems, not just giving them notes to pass.

4.I graduated from ABU in 2006. During my time handouts were made illegal. Plus, I was a medical student.....our course is basically geared towards problem solving, so handouts may not be beneficial.....you have to understand what you are doing.

In summary, i think that students have to learn to understand what they are doing, and learn how to solve problems....not just memorise and regurgitate facts so that they can get a degree, and then get a nice desk job. But then again, it involves an attitude change from the lectirers and the students......and well funded university facilities(which is a big part of the current ASUU strike),

Sir-Tunechi:

ask this DUDE , he loves extortion.

wellmax: That's why I love my Great Ife! No sale of handouts at all.

If your material is relevant, give to class rep. who makes copy for whole class. And these days sef, lecturers just forward to class rep's e-mail, who then forward to the class' Yahoo group.

boay:
Wonderful contribution! I guess you are the first to suggest a way out. But please what can we as students do to the status quo?

Jingo-OAU:
Am not used to illegality and impunity. There are universities and there are universities. The day one lecturer tried selling a handout in OAU, he was summarily sacked.

Thank God I never went to state universities or polytecnics cos I know I would never have bought the handouts and its sure they'll keep on failing me.

For the nairalanders, if you want your children to have university education in Nigeria, don't subject them to psychological torture by taking them to all these mushroom universities, rather, enrol your children in Obafemi Awolowo University. A school with class, standard, history, clear mission and vission, credibility, sophistication, legacy, learning and culture.

mad nigerian:

Well , I will start by saying that I don't have all the answers.....I am a doctor after all, not a university administrator!

But here are my tips(apart from telling lecturers to stop pushing handouts on us! )
1.NANS and individual student unions should get more universities connected to the internet.
2.Student unions should campaign for fully equipped libraries
3.Student unions should get their universities to be connected to the ATHENS system....explained in this WikiP article(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_access_and_identity_management).

Finally, students should use what they are learning to solve problems.For instance, a political science student could get a group of fellow Pol Sci students and set up an NGO with the aim of voter education. An education student could volunteer to teach at the village primary school or at the adult education center. A theater arts student could organize a play for the neighborhood children, and so on.

To sum up, students need to practice what they are learning out in their various local societies......and they need to read lots of books....

Like I said, my advice is not perfect.....but I think that it is not enough to tell lecturers to stop printing handouts......and then go back to empty libraries, and zero opportunities for practice

boay:
There may be no 'open compulsion' but if a student refused to buy it hope he wont be penalised? I mean hope the lecturers wont 'fail' him?

boay:
I wont click on it

boay:
please tell us more about that

boay:
Thanks for that

please what are the way out?