Teaching Quality Has Been Compromised In Nigerian Universities Over Focus On Publishing In Academic Journals –University Don, Chidi Ugwu

A lecturer on the College of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Dr. Chidi Ugwu, has warned that the rising focus of Nigerian college teachers on writing and publishing in high-impact tutorial Journals could also be compromising the standard of educating.

Dr. Ugwu, a Fellow of the Institute of Superior Research at Harvard College, made the remarks throughout an unique interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90 Minutes Africa on Sunday.

“The college is now fixated on getting employees to publish in the very best journals on the earth. So folks have taken this problem, and it has compromised the educating high quality,” the lecturer of Anthropology at UNN stated. He argued additional that those that taught his technology at UNN have been principally skilled overseas, and their replacements, most of whom are merchandise of the establishment, appear to not have achieved effectively for the system.

The visitor lecturer on the College of Melbourne’s Faculty of Inhabitants and World Well being additionally defined why Nigerian universities don’t make the checklist of top-ranking universities worldwide. He stated schooling will inevitably endure neglect in any society, like Nigeria, the place political actors will nonetheless have cash to spend regardless of whether or not there may be data manufacturing or not, just because they solely rely upon pure sources.

“Nigeria shouldn’t be a knowledge-driven nation however a pure resource-driven one caught up in Dutch Illness,” the Fellow of Harvard College’s African Humanities Program acknowledged. He stated, “Any society that isn’t knowledge-driven is not going to have wonderful universities.”

“Within the Nigerian context, there are some pure sources that the political actors are fixated on and they also don’t care about what turns into of the schooling of the society.”

In opposition to the frequent perception that there’s a scarcity of lecturers in Nigerian academia, the college don defined that the issue shouldn’t be the variety of lecturers, as there are greater than sufficient, however their high quality. 

He revealed that not like prior to now when the best-graduating college students have been recruited into the college system, the scenario is now completely different as the very best college students now not need to take up an appointment within the college due to the poor remuneration. The college is now manned principally by “those that suppose they don’t have any different alternative.”

In line with him, when these unqualified people are employed, they “discover a option to develop within the system by discovering folks to assist them to put in writing and maybe put their names right here and there to get them printed.”

“Numerous those that have been employed prior to now few years aren’t the standard you want to have,” Dr. Ugwu revealed.

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