The foreign Scholars, whose nationalities cut across different parts of the world - Europe, America, Asia and the Far East, have joined Covenant as International Visiting Scholars.

The appointment of International Visiting Scholars at Covenant is renewable each academic session. Each stay is an opportunity for scholars to engage in teaching, scholarly scientific life of the University community, and possible research collaborations with members of the faculty in the receiving Department.

Indeed, Covenant had long established the culture of receiving international scholars, but the surge in number validates the recent elevation in status, particularly the University’s ranking as a world-class institution prompted by a drastic improvement in her research endeavours, cutting edge teaching and world outlook.


http://m.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/News/Several-Reputable-Foreign-Scholars-Join-Covenant-as-International-Visiting-Scholars#.XJuaUmko80M



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Dr. Loes Damhof, a 21st Century Skills University Lecturer in Communication and Multimedia Design. She is responsible for the curriculum: the skills, knowledge and attitude that you need as a student to sustain you in an uncertain future. After years of teaching in China, Russia and the United States, she shares her experiences with students in the Intercultural Communication classes. Global citizenship and empathy are focal points within this. Loes Damhof is also involved as coach and teacher at Hanze Honors College.

Professor Raffaele Marchetti, Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Associate Professor at LUISS Guido Carli of Rome, where he teaches International Relations in the Department of Political Sciences and in the School of Government. In LUISS, he also holds a Jean Monnet Module on European Union’s Engagement with Civil Society (2012-2015) and coordinates the preparatory course for the diplomatic concours. His research interests are about global politics, global governance, transnational civil society, democracy, and political risk.

Dr Lynn Ilon. She is a Chief Innovation Coordinator of Bayoom Hub – a global social enterprise based in Korea. Dr. Ilon spent over 30 years as a professor in top ranked research universities in Africa, the United States and Korea. Her scholarly work focuses on the global economics of networked learning. Dr. Ilon has consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations, US AID, Dfid, the Asian and Africa Development Banks and numerous other multilateral, bi-lateral, global and local organisations.

Dr. Uche Esosa Ekhator-Mobayode, a consultant with the World Bank Group under the World Bank Africa Fellowship Program. She is also an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburg at Bradford. She recently earned a PhD in Economics from Northern Illinois University (NIU). During her studies, she was the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Graduate Scholar Award in the Department of Economics

In addition are Professor Solomon Isiorho and Mr. Felix S. K. Agyemang, Professor Nduka Nnamdi Ekere,

Isiorho is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences at Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, US, while Agyemang is currently a PhD student at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK. Agyemang does research in urban and regional planning, urban modelling and housing. His most recent publication is 'Towards sustainable urban development: the social acceptability of high-rise buildings in a Ghanaian city.'






Professor Nduka Nnamdi Ekere of the School of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, is currently a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering with an established national and international academic presence and reputation. Her research interests are in the modelling of manufacturing processes and systems, with specific emphasis on Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly, and the Processing of soft solids.

Jacqueline Gallo is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She spent fifteenmonths in Karamoja, Uganda completing ethnographic research at a Catholic girls’ secondary school. She earned a second Master’s Degree in Education Research Design and Methodology at the University of Oxford. Jacqueline is a co-ordinator of HDCA’s Graduate Student Network and an editorial review board member of CORERJ, the Cambridge Open-Review Educational Research E-Journal

Professor LI Chunyang, a Researcher and Supervisor of Phd and post doctorate, the Director, Department of Bioactive Compound and Functional Food, Institute of Agro-Food Science and Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (March 2006-present). He has previously been a visiting scholar to the University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta, both in Canada.

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asuustrike1:
Good news

Indeed...

Good development

Awesome... The university is working towards having 19% of all of her staff as foreign(particularly of Nigerian Origin).

ggoldmine:
How true is this? So, these scholars will have to leave their comfort abroad for a Nigerian University. Are there no more professors in Nigeria?

The attribute of a world class university is that it must have a diverse pull of lecturers from different parts of the world. Go to Tshwanne university of Technology South Africa and see several Nigerians teaching there. Wole Soyinka holds a job at University Of Johannesburg.

Last year both Covenant and UI where both poorly ranked on Times Higher Education index for internationalization because they didn't have sufficient foreign staff and students, though they had a commendable number of joint research projects with foreign varsities...

So Covenant anticipated this issue and has set aside about 3 billion naira(10 million USD) as far back as 2014 to purposely recruit foreign staff.


As per your question, the lecturers will stay a minimum of 3 months in CU(one semester), after which they would return to other institutions every year.

HigherEd:

The attribute of a world class university is that it must have a diverse pull of lecturers from different parts of the world. Go to Tshwanne university of Technology South Africa and see several Nigerians teaching there. Wole Soyinka holds a job at University Of Johannesburg.

Last year both Covenant and UI where both poorly ranked on Times Higher Education index for internationalization because they didn't have sufficient foreign staff and students, though they had a commendable number of joint research projects with foreign varsities...

So Covenant anticipated this issue and has set aside about 3 billion naira(10 million USD) as far back as 2014 to purposely recruit foreign staff.


As per your question, the lecturers will stay a minimum of 3 months in CU(one semester), after which they would return to other institutions every year.

Oh! I get now.

How can we compare this to schools where the HODs and VCs are always son of the soil?

ggoldmine:
How true is this? So, these scholars will have to leave their comfort abroad for a Nigerian University. Are there no more professors in Nigeria?

You mean our quota system should continue and extend into private sector? With an arrangement like this, a student making good grades in foreign lecturer anchored courses but poorer grades for those of local lecturers can easily be spotted. It will also help make local lecturers trying prove their worth sit up.

These guys don’t rest on their oars neither do they live on past glory. I believe God that by the time my daughter will be going to the university, it will be covenant university in Jesus mighty name

One day... When fortune smiles, I hope to take up a post graduate at Covenant. It is gradually becoming the best that a black nation can ever offer.

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If I had all the money in the world, and if I'm still in Nigeria by the time my kids get to the University age, I don't need sending them overseas for the first degree.

CU is enough!

How many of these lecturers are engineers and applied scientists?

Covenant need to employ more foreign lecturers in STEM to bridge our technical gap as a country.
They are more expensive, but it is what we need.

All these philosophers, sociologists and economists are good, but does not solve our national problem. And we have a lot of them in Nigeria already with world class degrees.

RTSC:
How many of these lecturers are engineers and applied scientists?

Covenant need to employ more foreign lecturers in STEM to bridge our technical gap as a country.
They are more expensive, but it is what we need.

All these philosophers, sociologists and economists are good, but does not solve our national problem. And we have a lot of them in Nigeria already with world class degrees.

Lol valid point sha. But I imagine it doesn't come cheap. CU would have to employ them on special salary, provide individual laboratories. But private universities inaccessibility to federal research grant would kill the idea.
No STEM lecturer would come to Nigeria without a path to adequate research funding.