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Academic Staff Union of Universities has blamed the unimpressive ranking of Nigerian universities by the Center for World University Ranking on the failure of the Federal Government to make education as its priority.

The union said if the government had heeded its numerous calls to provide enabling environment for education especially in tertiary institutions across the country, the ranking was only two

Nigerian Universities, the University of Ibadan, and the University of Nigeria made the world’s best 2,000 would have been better.

While speaking about the ranking, the Chairman University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ayo Akinwole lamented that the two universities which presently hold national rankings of first and second in Nigeria could not make top 1,000.

Making allusion to other universities in Africa, the union stated that the first thirteen universities in South Africa made the best 2,000 universities while seven of them made the best one thousand varsities in the world.

By this ranking, the University of Ibadan is 8th in Africa followed by the University of Western Cape, South Africa (1,158) that is ranked 9th on the continent.

ASUU stated that the ranking had vindicated the struggle by ASUU to make the government commit not less than 26% of her national budget to education lamenting that the best the Muhammadu Buhari government has done is to reduce the budget year to about 6% at present.

According to him, ASUU has been drawing Government and Nigerians’ attention to the rot in the tertiary education system and was proven right by the 2012 Needs Assessment conducted by the federal government.

As revealed in the ranking, it has taken personal dogged efforts of research output of academics in the University of Ibadan and the University of Nigeria to position Nigeria on the global map.
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Their is no passion anymore in lecturing because the remuneration is very very poor.
A country whose senators earn the highest in the world and lecturers/teachers earn the lowest has already set its priority on failure and mediocrity.

fernandoc:
Their is no passion anymore in lecturing because the remuneration is very very poor.
A country whose senators earn the highest in the world and lecturers/teachers earn the lowest has already set its priority on failure and mediocrity.

is there even passion to learn?

SirWarlock:
is there even passion to learn?

My dear that is a big story for another day.