₦airaland Forum

Just stupid.

MuttleyLaff:

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Prophe-lies with fake tongues

Visit this post on January the 16th again.

This people are using the future of young people to catch cruise

Whatever national research foundation to be set up. I hope it includes allowing private varsities or private research centers access post graduate research grant also.

The last I checked, tetfund had N5B in unused funds, which public varsity lecturers refused to access.

Research grant should not be allocated based on quota system or distribution formula. No university should be entitled to it irregardless of what ASUU demands. The funds must be allocated to principal investigator working on top rate local solutions with credentials from a Nigerian tertiary facility.

If the plan is to do the normal "ABU take your own, OAU take that one" then you might as well jettison the idea as I promise you it would be a waste of resources.

The Tertiary Education Trust (TETFUND) will be tapping into the various capacities available across the spectrum of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector of Nigeria in its attempt at establishing a national research and development foundation for driving and advancing the industry.

This objective was made known when the Coordinator and Team Leader of the TETFUND Research and Development Standing-Committee on ICT-Digital Economy Thematic Group, Professor Bashir Galadima, led other members of the group on a courtesy call to the Management of Covenant University.

According to Professor Galadima, the committee had the mandate to work assiduously towards the establishment of a national research foundation to spur activities in the ICT sector of the business space and encourage more players in the digital space.

He averred that the standing-committee was the most important of the arrays of standing-committees under the TETFUND initiative, taking into consideration the crucial role of ICT in driving other sectors of the nation's economy. "ICT supports and enables all other sectors; education, healthcare, manufacturing, commerce, etc., and as such the importance of setting up a robust framework that will help the standing-committee meet its objectives," he added.

Professor Galadima highlighted the roles research institutions, industries and government across all levels needed to play to make the assignment a success. "We are here at Covenant University as a representative of the academia, taking into cognizance the position that this University occupy in the research ecosystem of the Nigerian education landscape," he enthused.

He said the team was at Covenant University to learn from the University's research experiences and see how in just 18 years, the University had been able to concretize her research plan. He added that the nation, through the work of the sub-committee, could adopt its findings as a model for building the research and development foundation.

The Head, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Professor Ambrose Azeta, welcomed the idea of a national research foundation for the promotion of ICT and digital economy, noting that the industry had longed for such. He said the establishment of the foundation would encourage software engineers and local initiatives through the provision of national infrastructure and policy framework to support innovation.

"This will go a long way in answering the mindboggling questions of why the nation's local software developers are leaving the country," he stated.

In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abiodun H. Adebayo said Covenant, being an ICT-driven University, was proud to be associated with the assignment of the standing-committee while hoping that the project would become the platform for a rebirth in the development of Nigeria.

Professor Adebayo noted that with the advent of COVID-19 across the world, the means of doing business had been completely altered. He said that as the digital economy could never be shut down, it had become imperative for the nation's business environment to evolve and grow into it. He urged governments in the country to make ICT resources available to citizens at a basic level, and above all be committed to promoting the adoption of the virtual space to drive governance and business.

The meeting had in attendance, the Registrar, Covenant University, Dr Oluwasegun Omidiora; Dean, College of Science and Technology, Professor Temidayo Omotosho; Dean, College of Engineering, Professor David Omole; Director, Financial Services, Pastor Babatunde Onatola; Director, Centre for Systems and Information Services, Engr. Bayo Ajala; and Director, Covenant University Centre for Research Innovation and Discovery, Professor Emeka Iweala.

http://m.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/News/TETFUND-ICT-Digital-Economy-Thematic-Group-Understudies-Covenant-University-Research-Model#.X7_JRVMo9Pw

Lalastiscala

This is my problem with Nigeria. Always copying the west.
Youve already opened everywhere yet no surge. But you think you can stop people from traveling lol.

Look at how the family already sidelined the wife. Africa Chai.

Capital and Recurrent almost equal. That's fair enough.

Fahdiga:
It can only be an Igbo man even though I'm Yoruba

Many Nigerians across different tribes can do great things as long as they are given the right platform. If this Dr was from unn he wouldn't have been able to achieve it.

Lalasticlala

Oibrahim:
Omo Al Qalam University no be here, See 400 level questions! ��

It's a northern university na. Quota admission results in quota questions.

Taxes never save the poor. It only encourages more wasteful government spending.

What we need. Lower prices of necessary commodities by deprioritising revenue generation from customs. This should be done in areas where sizeable local manufacture is impracticable within the short term.

Do whatever you can to slash inflation rate to below 7%.

Total cut down of wasteful financial cost of governance.

Careful transit expensive socialist programmes to sustainable and self reliant ones.

ProfOkai:
You sound like a huge failure

Illegitimate bast.ard you are.

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oyetpel:
You blame ASUU for the outcome of students when the government/jamb peg admission at 160 for jamb?


You all also blame public institutions for conducting post utme to admit the brilliant ones.

Private university can even accept students with 110 jamb score.


There is nothing again in this country, make everybody just dey push am.

Jamb is not a qualifying exam. It is designed as a ranking exam.

What qualifies you for higher education is Olevel not Jamb. Ideally, varsities can either combine jamb or/and post utme to rank students when there are too many applicants.

That said, I don't even understand the correlation between your statement and mine as I never blamed ASUU for the outcome of higher education.

The system is faulty and that's what needs to change.

faceURfront:
I see some sense in what you are saying, but your last statement is not logical. That conclusion does not reflect all you have said initially. What does "... stop funding unsustainable projects like ASUU" mean? I didn't know ASUU is a project. ASUU has been clamouring for revitalization of the university system and a stop to proliferation of universities which end up not being adequately funded; is that (the call) what you want FG to stop or something else? I don't get. You need to be clear on some of your assertions. The other thing is their EARNED allowance; are you suggesting they should not be paid what they are being owed? Besides these two things, is there any ASUU project I am not aware of?

ASUU is referred to as a project because they represent what we spend majority of the education budget upon.

The problem here is that the problem in higher education highlighted by ASUU goes beyond any practicable solution govt can offer giving the prevailing and projected circumstances the nation is facing and would face.

The govt has spent over a trillion on higher education in the past decade, but can not point out any tangible thing it has done for the nation.

The govt carries about 90% of the burden of the cost of higher education. Students carry less than 5% of the cost. This arrangement would not work as varsities continue to need lots of money to make the system work.

Nchenches:
You never had stellar credentials when you got into the university, considering what and how you wrote.
Most of Nigeria shall be under-educated if you are made Minister of Education or even president of Nigeria.

The more the population in a society get higher education, the more governable the society becomes.
Higher education is the key to development of a country.

Many Nigerians who received university education in Nigeria, however poor the university facilities, excel in the developed countries in their jobs.

Scholarship to only stellar students to go to university is not it. Students loans to university students is it.

You are a simple slowpoke.

I shouldn't dignify your poorly worded argument laced with insult. But I would do so for the sake of other people who needs to learn.

The purpose of higher education is tripartite. Teaching, Research and Community development. The purpose of setting up universities is not to enroll every teenager into the university system.

The real academic education which needs to be free or with massive subsidy is primary and secondary education. If both are done well then major parts of the population can proceed to do certain jobs.

If you graduate with a BSc in Industrial Chemistry from say Unilag and end up as customer agent in UBA. We can reliably say you relied on skills provided during your primary and secondary education to do that job.

At least 60% of people who graduated from varsities are doing things they were not trained in the University for. We could just ignore that fact, unless it is costing the country several billions annually.

Agbegbaorogboye:
It's this thinking of yours that ultimately led Nigeria to become unproductive. If only we utilise our inter rel students well, we wouldn't be having the shame and embarrassment we're having in international circles.
Physiology nko, anatomy, you even mentioned biochemistry when we're in the middle of a pandemic and our contribution to the world's effort has been -ve, net borrowers and receivers of donations while offering nothing to further knowledge on the virus. The vaccine is out and our leaders have lifted the customary bowl to beg for our share of the vaccine. This is while we have been the least affected and therefore in the best position possible to have come up with therapeutics or a vaccine.
We need to fund much more of R& D and not just education for the sake of it and believe me, Medicine, Nursing Civil engineering are not core research disciplines.

No one said universities should stop offering those disciplines. I'm saying there's no market fit with it. You've been producing biochemistry students with subpar education for the past three decades. How have they benefitted the Nigerian state?

What you have are many aspirational degrees that are not in demand from the private sector at this moment. Especially in the sciences.
Until foundational issues are corrected with the non robust economy a number of people would study with govt subsidy and end up doing something totally different.

plana1:
So funding ASUU is unsustainable to you, but funding politicians and religious pilgrimage is sustainable and reasonable to you abi? You are part of the problems we are facing in this country.

Point out the place where i said I support funding politicians and pilgrimages.

Xtfield:
Well put. Please I need your permission to copy and paste on an education platform on Facebook and WhatsApp. Thanks in advance

Please go ahead. Thank you.

jlinkd78:
Take it or leave it ASUU is the only labour union in this country everyother is simply where belle face. Congratulations ASUU for being hard and ruthless on their scrotum

Lol I hope you guys would realize the truth before it becomes late.

The current system where universities fully depend on payouts from the government is unsustainable and would never make the universities competitive or valuable enough to industry. Especially in a country with a surging population yet depleting economy.

As part of comprehensive reform of the Nigerian state. The emphasis on higher education needs to be lowered. Not everyone should need to go to university to amount to anything meaningful in life. People who must go there by virtue of stellar academic records should be offered scholarships.

Why would the ministry of education train with subsidy 2000 zoology students across the nation and only 1% of them end up as zoologist or researchers in Zoology. While the rest end up in banks, telcos, and everyother place where a zoology degree is never ended. How many subsidized degrees yield return on Investment for the Nigerian state. E.. g Inter rel, Physiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry etc? Tbh only strategically important degrees ought to be free in Nigerian schools. E.g Medicine, Nursing, Civil engineering.

Lets focus on our economy and generate enough value for each Nigerian to be self sufficient enough to fund their own education and stop funding unsustainable projects like ASUU.

Thank you!

This is the best news in public higher education this year.

If I hear you say FUTA built a satellite again, I would flog you

RuudVanNisteroy:
Lalastiscala,Mynd44,Seun frontpage. Look at what is happening to the taxes you pay.

I guess they are afraid. Lol

Lalasticlala

Smithkafors:
After the opening,go there and see people using it to park cars,sleeping by the side or selling on top.

Considering Abule Egba I don't think so.

Good development. Please hurry and repeal it.

Amotolongbo:
The school is really trying in terms of infrastructure.
Just that this beautiful structures may not stand the qualities of the first generation schools

OAU, UI, UNILAG et al seem to be living, eating and sleeping on their historical glory. Private Universities like Covenant, ABUAD, Bells etc are fast catching up with them and may likely leave them behind soon

A lot of private varsities are radically stepping up to fill the gap created by public sector. Hopefully many more would adopt private varsity education.

Lalasticlala

AU, Ede, Osun.

Adeleke University.