What do you expect

That is what we are seeing in the system, third class holders with both political and ASUU connections are now parading themselves as lecturers distributing ignorance, ordinarily second lower holders are not supposed to lecture, soon based on politics they will start working as graduate assistant, ASUU has destroyed the system

Student population is a threat to research in your school but want to lecture in more than one University. Why are you contradicting yourself Prof.

See this mumu, is it just now you know.

Lumig:
Oga Biodun, be careful of the stones you are throwing, it may backfire

He is saying THE OBVIOUS TRUTH... That's our problem in Nigeria. Some people don't just want to appreciate truth, when it's being said.

FVckmannabbQ:
SURE


DEM FULL KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY.

what do you expect when the governor is not ready to pay salaries, it is so unfortunate that the best brains have left the school. kogi state university was one of the best state university in Nigeria until this present government of Yahaya Bello came on board

ASUU will need to do a lot to shore up the falling standard of education in Nigeria. Unfortunately, ASUU itself is a contributor to the fall.

Endtimebro:
The claim that unqualified persons lecturing is a known but rather unfortunate truth.
Last month I was at the Commonwealth Scholarship screening at Abuja. I got talking with a graduate of FUTMINNA. He was amongst the best in his class and the entire school that VC had handshake with him during convocation.
He was telling me bitterly how a coursemate of his with 2:2 was giving appointment because her father-in-law was former VC. While he and other first class products were not considered. He summoned courage and met the VC. If I tell you what the VC told him. U will be shocked.
So many first class are out there without jobs while you find some so called lecturers who can't even express themselves.

No wonder the number of Nigerian applicants for international scholarships kept increasing. These are brains that will be appreciated out there.

In other words, square pegs in round holes everywhere you look. Wonderful!

And we wonder why countries like UAE that started behind us are now 100 years plus ahead of us.

Meritocracy:
Student population is a threat to research in your school but want to lecture in more than one University. Why are you contradicting yourself Prof.

Thank you. You're the only one that did not let sentiment rule his objectivity. There is everything wrong with a lecturer teaching in more than one university so that he can do a piss poor job of all, yet be collecting more than one salary. And who needs paper libraries for research these days? So many sites like academia.com, archives.org, researchgate.net, jstor etc are available; with plenty of research books and academic journals available. But research in most Nigerian universities is generally below par because the suoervisors do not conduct research for themselves, much less have the capability to guide others on reserch methods. Imagine a student being asked by his supervisor to 'just cook up some data' so that he can quickly finish his project before the supervisor travels on sabbatical.

As for non qualified lecturers sometimes being appointed, I agree. But they should not put all blame on the politicians. VC will have his own boys, HOD too, has his own, dean na will push for his own. The remaining few vacant spots can now go to political appointments that will strengthen VCs political connections.

Endtimebro:
The claim that unqualified persons lecturing is a known but rather unfortunate truth.
Last month I was at the Commonwealth Scholarship screening at Abuja. I got talking with a graduate of the Fed. Uni. Tech. He was amongst the best in his class and the entire school that VC had handshake with him during convocation.
He was telling me bitterly how a coursemate of his with 2:2 was giving appointment because her father-in-law was former VC. While he and other first class products were not considered. He summoned courage and met the VC. If I tell you what the VC told him. U will be shocked.
So many first class are out there without jobs while you find some so called lecturers who can't even express themselves.

No wonder the number of Nigerian applicants for international scholarships kept increasing. These are brains that will be appreciated out there.

Ur story is incomplete.. Please shock us, what did d VC tell him

HappyCanadian:
Haha! I laugh in Swahili, I nearly died in laughter seeing the God's must be crazy Chief Justice and how about a whole country with brains being ruled by an illiterate president, Oga please go and rest

I doubt if you know the meaning of illiteracy. You see people like you always say a country of brains being ruled by illiterates and forget that everybody has to be functional in his or her role for the country to move forward. Buhari your always consider illiterate is not the only leader we have. As a matter of fact anybody who heads a particular organization is a leader in his or her own right and whatever she or he does can either make or mar the country. The problem I see with Nigerians is that almost everybody is deficient in his or her role. If you think the president is poor in governance probably because you think he is not well read, then what about those who are highly read and are worse than the president? You see the problem with Nigerians is that we tend to see Nigeria as a country to be taken advantage of and not as a place to develop and be proud of. In order world we are not patriotic and always have a poor sense of nationhood. How on earth do you think Nigeria will develop when everybody seeks to outdo the other in looting the country to the stone age? For Nigeria to develop everybody must be up and doing which I doubt will ever happen with the misformation going on in the country.

Divide and rule always work. Stop dis una over sabi and stand as one no matter what. Winter is coming.

AbdulHakeem44:

Then you begin to wonder why problem solvers are not being pulled out of our universities rather book crammers and degree pursuant.

This is the problem

Some of these horrible substandard lecturers actually got first class but within minutes you know that they are mere cramming & past questions robots. No real interest in what they are doing, just mere means to an end. How can you be an authority in your core academic areas of specialty and not be excited about it? Lots of high school teachers are way better than most of these frauds.

atiku4President:
True talk. But what is ASUU doing about it?

ASUU doesn't employ lecturers

DenreleDave:


Ur story is incomplete.. Please shock us, what did d VC tell him

he can't just go like that.. he must shock us o we are waiting

brexit:
That is what we are seeing in the system, third class holders with both political and ASUU connections are now parading themselves as lecturers distributing ignorance, ordinarily second lower holders are not supposed to lecture, soon based on politics they will start working as graduate assistant, ASUU has destroyed the system

ASUU did not destroy the system

OoniOfIfe:







What do u expect?
Even Buhari is not academically qualified to be president.
Tanko is also not qualified to be CJN


Unqualified lecturers full north.
It will take d grace of God to understand an English a northern lecturer is speaking.
Apart from Unijos nd ABU other northern uni lecturers at not even qualified to teach in southern primary schools

Oga park well

Oma307:

what do you expect when the governor is not ready to pay salaries, it is so unfortunate that the best brains have left the school. kogi state university was one of the best state university in Nigeria until this present government of Yahaya Bello came on board

that was during the tenure of late prof idachaba, all other vcs na trash

OoniOfIfe:







What do u expect?
Even Buhari is not academically qualified to be president.
Tanko is also not qualified to be CJN


Unqualified lecturers full north.
It will take d grace of God to understand an English a northern lecturer is speaking.
Apart from Unijos nd ABU other northern uni lecturers at not even qualified to teach in southern primary schools

Fallacy of hasty generalisation.

OoniOfIfe:







What do u expect?
Even Buhari is not academically qualified to be president.
Tanko is also not qualified to be CJN


Unqualified lecturers full north.
It will take d grace of God to understand an English a northern lecturer is speaking.
Apart from Unijos nd ABU other northern uni lecturers at not even qualified to teach in southern primary schools

and ATBU
ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA UNIVERSITY

[quote author=RisenPhoenix post=85146521]

Thank you. You're the only one that did not let sentiment rule his objectivity. There is everything wrong with a lecturer teaching in more than one university so that he can do a piss poor job of all, yet be collecting more than one salary. And who needs paper libraries for research these days? So many sites like academia.com, archives.org, researchgate.net, jstor etc are available; with plenty of research books and academic journals available

Those aforementioned sites are useful for literature review and research guide.
[quote]But research in most Nigerian universities is generally below par because the suoervisors do not conduct research for themselves, much less have the capability to guide others on reserch methods. Imagine a student being asked by his supervisor to 'just cook up some data' so that he can quickly finish his project before the supervisor travels on sabbatical.

It all boils down to funding and inadequate data. Research in the social and Management is limited due to inadequate data how much more in the sciences.

As for non qualified lecturers sometimes being appointed, I agree. But they should not put all blame on the politicians. VC will have his own boys, HOD too, has his own, dean na will push for his own. The remaining few vacant spots can now go to political appointments that will strengthen VCs political connections

The politicians are to be blamed. Their constant interference had caused this problem raised by you.
./quote]
Good

rentAcock:
Many lecturers became lecturers because they couldn't become doctors, engineers, pharmacists etc. They are not only unqualified to teach, they are also frustrated, hence the reason they fail students. We need a total overhaul of out educational system.

So who trains the doctors, engineers, pharmacists, etc.?

I agree completely with ASUU chairman's assertion but we are in a circus. Every segment of the country has this challenge not only the University academics. Among the University academics, not less than 90% were recruited with either 1st class or second class upper (2.1). Is this criteria always the yardstick for performance? No of course? Why would you keep a 1st class certificate holder that can not teach? Do you throw out a second lower that is the backbone of the department? Most of the first class only use academic as a leverage to move abroad and will never come back. What happened to situation where a student is able to buy his marks all through the University and became a 1st class? This is a delicate issue which may result in litigations as the University's condition of service also give rooms for a 2.2 with Masters.
The worsening structure is replicated all over the country, from the president with doubtful certificate, Chief Justice with inconsistent certificate, quack doctors, weak union leaders and even Prof Abiodun the current ASUU chairman is the worst leader of the union, you can't compare him with his predecessors. The highest offices from President to the Senate, Rep, governors, assembly positions, councillors etc only requires o'level certificate. We need to restructure everything for Nigeria to move forward. Henceforth, the best first class graduating students must be retained after series of tests is conducted on the candidates. I.Q and aptitude.

AbdulHakeem44:
Every school has that lecturer where student themselves know that this lecturer doesn't know what he is teaching or lecturing. He is just forcing his way through.

I remember when I was in 300l in unilorin, one of my classmates asked a question in the class, the lecturer didn't know it, so he asked whoever knows it among us to come out to solve it, the scholars amongst us began to reach out for the marker to try their luck, we couldn't reach a conclusion. The next two classes was dedicated to solving that problem, we couldn't, Mr lecturer just jumped onto the next topic.

That same lecturer did similar thing during my Master's degree in the same school few years ago.

Some lecturers are worse than that!!!

Then you begin to wonder why problem solvers are not being pulled out of our universities rather book crammers and degree pursuant.

Stop being a fool okay. You can't expect a lecturer to know all. You can't throw random questions at a lecturer and expect him to know it easily. Lecturers have specialty, they have their own field. If you ask him anything outside his field, don't blame him. Same with a professor that you'd expect him to know everything. Professors for instance have their own specialty too. They might all be professors in physics but while one is a professor of acoustic , another is a professor of quantum physics, another is a Prof of electro magnetism and electronics another is a Prof of condensed matter physics. So you can't ask a Prof of acoustics a question relating to electro magnetism and expect him to know it. All of them may answer professor of physics. But they have their own specialty where they did their thesis.

Cc Aremson14

One lecture in my school killed my dream of bagging first class because I did not buy his manual. The lecturer taught advanced thermal engine, a course I had 86A in the pre requisite thermal engine. That lecturer is so daft both intellectually and grammatically and we all know it.

C in that advanced thermal engine clearly killed that dream as I couldnt make up again.

How he got the lecturing job still baffles all of us till date.

AbdulHakeem44:
Every school has that lecturer where student themselves know that this lecturer doesn't know what he is teaching or lecturing. He is just forcing his way through.

I remember when I was in 300l in unilorin, one of my classmates asked a question in the class, the lecturer didn't know it, so he asked whoever knows it among us to come out to solve it, the scholars amongst us began to reach out for the marker to try their luck, we couldn't reach a conclusion. The next two classes was dedicated to solving that problem, we couldn't, Mr lecturer just jumped onto the next topic.

That same lecturer did similar thing during my Master's degree in the same school few years ago.

Some lecturers are worse than that!!!

Then you begin to wonder why problem solvers are not being pulled out of our universities rather book crammers and degree pursuant.

In a university system, it's not necessary lecturers answer or knows all the answers to student questions. A university is also for research both on student and lecturers side. If a lecturer stumbles on an academic problem he can throw it to the students to find a way out. Heck that's how alot of innovations are developed

OoniOfIfe:







What do u expect?
Even Buhari is not academically qualified to be president.
Tanko is also not qualified to be CJN


Unqualified lecturers full north.
It will take d grace of God to understand an English a northern lecturer is speaking.
Apart from Unijos nd ABU other northern uni lecturers at not even qualified to teach in southern primary schools

Why is buhari and tanko not qualified

[quote author=edoairways post=85147256][/quote]

Data in the sciences is universal and not limited to regions. It can easily be obtained through collaboration with other universities. As for funding, in other climes, it is obtained mainly from the private sector which sees the research as relevant to its operations. With the current cadre of 'researchers' in most Nigerian universities, no private organization would want to rely on research results obtained here. That is why self funding remains the only option.

The politician/board arrangement suits both parties. Don't believe it when they tell you that university boards are coerced into making appointments. It is totally a mutual satisfying back scratch. A board could theoretically take the high road and refuse unqualified lecturer appointments. Why do you think they don't?

Sirwallace:
One lecture in my skill killed my dream of bagging first class because I did not buy his manual. The lecturer taught advanced thermal engine, a course I had 86A in the pre requisite thermal engine. That lecture is so daft both intellectually and grammatically and we all know it.

C in that advanced thermal engine clearly killed that dream as I couldnt make up again.

How he got the lecturing job still baffles all of us till date.

With your writeup above, you don't merit first class.

edoairways:

ASUU doesn't employ lecturers

How many times has ASUU gone on strike because of unqualified folks in their ranks? It does for better pay and 'more funding' of universities. ASUU too doesn't pay itself; neither does it fund the universities. So....who is deceiving who?

Waxxxy:




With your writeup above, you don't merit first class.

Silly! Every privilege tom and harry is now forming W.shakespeare on nairaland.


Grammarian of our time, I guess one or two glitches in that quote made you arrived at your logical conclusion.

The same English that I can actually tutor you.
Mind you,
When you tutor your juniors on thermodynamics and engineering mathematics for 3 years and your colleagues on advanced vibration and strength of materials, then you and I can have a normal conversation in English.