hisexcellency34:
It's the same in UI English Department too. Doing shakara on top of a course that is not lucrative. Who Shakespearean Literature epp?

rasaquadri:

y do u always try to compare federal universities with covenant university?

HigherEd:

Even if I did, what would be the problem with that? I don't want anything to do with any federal university in this life but I recognise the inequalities they would breed in the future. Maybe grade deflation a decade ago was ok when all parties consented to it. But in this era a UI wants 25% of her graduating class with first class in the nearest future. It's in their strategic plan for 2021.

A CU is willing to give it to as many people who merits it. Access bank would not prefer an OAU grad to an LBS, CU or Babcock grad because it is harder at OAU

hisexcellency34:
It's the same in UI English Department too. Doing shakara on top of a course that is not lucrative. Who Shakespearean Literature epp?

HigherEd:
Rubbish! Stupid school!
You just made life a little bit harder for them. If they apply for competitive scholarships in the UK with their counterparts from Covenant who got awarded first class in the same English department, they would lose out because you chose to deprive them of what they deserve and could easily have helped them triumph over any competition for jobs.

If public schools continue in this manner then they would soon discover they have the monopoly on producing poverty stricken graduates.

CrimeBuster:
As reported by Premiumtimesng and major dailies on 13th December , 2018. Two female students broke 21- year record in English Department at the just concluded Obafemi Awolowo University 43rd convocation ceremony. Read more about how they did it below

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/300831-two-graduates-break-21-year-first-class-dearth-in-oaus-english-department.html

Report reaching us says that none of the two students were awarded by the department. It was said that the Dean faculty of Art said no one deserved the award during the convocation ceremony.


How can you have two students with First-class and you're saying no one deserved the award?

Are the lecturers of the department jealous of the feat attained by these two students?

Are they sad because the students are females?

Or are they just clueless?

Efforts to contact the department as to why no one was awarded proved abortive as no lecturer wants to speak about the issue.

In this era where immoralities and other vices are being celebrated. How can these two brilliant students not be recognised.

SmallmebigGod:
They have given them their first class. The other one you are asking for is at the discretion of each department. May be there is a standard they didn't reach despite the first class.
It happened to my graduating class then. And when we asked , they say, they can't give anyone such because, the people that scored high wasn't known to them (they believed if they are really good having spent about 4-5 years with them, they should know) this people are actually quiet people, they don't answer question in class, they aren't great presenters too, but passes exam very well. I am not defending their position but that was the standard they have used in the past.

ntyce:
Hope you are aware that grades are awarded based on learning and character...
They might be deserving academically but not character-wise....

HigherEd:
Rubbish! Stupid school!

proffemi:

I find it disappointing that someone as learned as you would make the above submission on this matter.
I thought it was clear as daylight that there is more to this story as presented than meets the eye. Perhaps it isn't that clear after all? It would have become you to keep your decorum until all the facts are presented.

There is a lot wrong with OAU, but no university (or its students/graduates) in Nigeria has earned the right to call it a "stupid school".

HigherEd:

Apologies Prof. Personally, I take it personal when I see students oppressed unnecessarily.

HigherEd:

Even if I did, what would be the problem with that? I don't want anything to do with any federal university in this life but I recognise the inequalities they would breed in the future. Maybe grade deflation a decade ago was ok when all parties consented to it. But in this era a UI wants 25% of her graduating class with first class in the nearest future. It's in their strategic plan for 2021.

A CU is willing to give it to as many people who merits it. Access bank would not prefer an OAU grad to an LBS, CU or Babcock grad because it is harder at OAU

ntyce:
Hope you are aware that grades are awarded based on learning and character...
They might be deserving academically but not character-wise....

proffemi:

I find it disappointing that someone as learned as you would make the above submission on this matter.
I thought it was clear as daylight that there is more to this story as presented than meets the eye. Perhaps it isn't that clear after all? It would have become you to keep your decorum until all the facts are presented.

There is a lot wrong with OAU, but no university (or its students/graduates) in Nigeria has earned the right to call it a "stupid school".

Awoo88:
Nonsense school with nonsense lecturers. The same school sometimes ago a department said no body deserves second class upper openly.
MB
One is a Muslim girl the other a Christian girl. Maybe one of them was pushed and some other people decided to push some one of their Faith. If that us the case, the Dean's decision is justifiable

Dotng:
Someone from the university just confirmed that the story is false.

Wtfork:
For 21 years all the lecturers could not produce a first class student in English department . So what have they been teaching them !?

Supposing it was miss OAU winner now , you will see the stupid lectures running helther skelter to congratulate the winner just to boost their chances of licking the puna..

lx3as:


Not only in OAU; the problem they always allude to this is whether the students are as good as native speakers in the spoken form. Moreover, when they are given scholarship to study abroad it may lead to a kind of downgrading of the Nigerian universities that awarded the first class.
Government should step in to help Students of English studies in the country if not it's very difficult to have first class in that department. The lecturers already have a belief that no one deserves this.

proffemi:


Thanks. I have noted a lot of your posts with approval in the past, so I think I have a measure of you.

I hate oppression with a passion myself, but too often, there is no substance to myths peddled around by students. When you've taught for long enough, you'll realize that rallying too rapidly to students' defence may leave you feeling silly when all the facts are revealed. I don't know the facts in this case, but I know enough about OAU to tell you with 100% confidence that there is more to the tale than meets the eye.