Bamiro urges FG to demand quality performance commensurate with demands of varsity unions
Former Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Professor Olufemi Bamiro has urged the Federal government to be prepared to demand quality performance from its learning institutions in a bid to make them to be more committed to their mandate.
According to him, Government must demand the kind of performance that corresponds with the constant demands made by the university unions.
There should be performance indices that will showcase whether a University is performing or non-performing. The indicators can be in the area of level of graduate employability, research and contributions to the private sector and in turn the nation’s economy.
Speaking on, Prof Bamiro harped on the need for the training of Nigerian lecturers. “Training should be the focus of every serious minded lecturer. Government should be ready to provide the funds that will ensure adequate training which will enable lecturers deliver a quality curriculum.”
Bamiro who is currently the Chairman, NUC Skills Development Advisory Committee pointed that “It is one thing to design a 21st century curriculum; it is another issue to have lecturers that can deliver it.”
The Scholar equally charged University lecturers to be willing to learn, adapt to new ideas so as not to become obsolete.
Prof. Jide Owoeye, Pro Chancellor, Lead City University in his submission on the need for increased productivity in the Nigerian tertiary education lamented that perennial instability now defines the Nigerian University System giving it a very bad name and image locally and internationally.
He said while some private universities now run a stable academic calendar, their miniscule student population which is less than ten percent of the whole cannot be said to be representative of the system.
It would be recalled that on Tuesday, 12th January 2020 the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities began a three-day nationwide protest over the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System and the N40billion earned allowance.
