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Mike..
You have spoken..
Which way felas?? which way??
I think the whole stuff is just from fry pan to fire.. Imagine.. Pry school teachers now go on strike..
there has to be a way..
Lets put on our thinking caps!!

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well, make our lecturers dey go update demselves...make dem send dem go training...make dem stop to dey use the 197..somtin notes for us togo fotocopy...
lets strat from dat...reform no.1 or wat?

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1luv...

I think a wholistic solution is needed.

The fact is updating yourself requires funds, is our goverment ready to provide this? I doubt very much. Our political class have not convinced all of us that they value quality education, accessible to all.

I would want to see every stake holder contributing to move the system forward: If I may start with Government, government must increase funding, monitor the funds appropriated, pay lecturers/teachers etc, and appoint the right administrators to manage the system. It is only when u give to a system that you have a right to expect from it. So If the govt does not pay salaries, how can they expect lecturers to be doing world class research ?

Apart from that, we should have a retention scheme that will attract/keep the best (both graduates, experienced professionals and pure academics), but this requires adequate funds. You may want to argue that Companies should be involved in funding, yes, but the government must first set the pace, infact if the companies believe in the Institutions, they will be begging the Institutions for partnerships.

Another problem I see is Quota and mediocrity. They will use quota to admit someone who scored 150 in JAMB to study medicine (no kidding, my room mate during my NYSC year had 146 and, yeah, he studied medicine in XYZ University. This Doctor could not write a letter in English, Walahi ! In computing and data processing, they say garbage in garbage out. But that does not mean we dont have smart minds. Last year, Nigeria had the highest number of postgraduate Distinctions at Imperial College London. The bad part is that the mediocres who now run our system will resist anyone who they know can improve it. So how can change come, they cant change it and wont let others change it, they just ruin it! It didn't mean much to them in the first place.

Take the oil and gas industry, PTDF has over 100 students studying in the UK this year alone? What will it take to turn Uniport or RSUST or DELSU into a centre of excellence in Petroleum Engineering that will attract people from neighboring countries, and prevent hundreds of nigerians who run out yearly to get foreign education in oil and gas technology. Do you not see how they are playing politics with Petroleum Training Institute (PTI). Do you know the UK's yearly earning from "Exporting University Education" i.e revenue from international students runs into Hundreds of millions of pounds ! Nowadays , the oil companies prefer to recruit Nigerian graduates who studied in Europe. This summarizes their confidence in our system !

So I would return to my recent recommendation "if the System can not make you, you have to make yourself !", make yourself first, and try little by little to assist others to make themselves. When you acquire sufficient mass, the group will begin to restore the system, any attempt for one individual to play messiah in the nigerian setting, as we have seen, is usually fatal. We should spread the System redemption awareness to all and sundry, but beware people have been consumed in trying to redeem the system

The idea is to look at it wholistically.
I will be glad if our discussions is centerd on the major stakeholders in the education sector.
They are
1. GOVERNMENT
2. INSTITUTIONS/SCHOOLS ( this includes JAMB, NECO, WAEC, NABTEB, NUC, individual universities etc
3. PARENTS
4. SOCIETY
5. LECTURERS
6. STUDENTS.

If possible state the particular problem associated with a given stakholder and proffer your own solution. Who knows we may be at the verge of changing the educational sector for better in Nigeria. Expecting more contributions.
Together we can do it better.

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

NUC,

Taking a look at NUC, they are mandated with regulatory functions as well as formulation of Nigeria universities curriculum but I must confess they have not perform very well.
For instance as at 2003 2 years in to GSM in Nigeria, non of the Nigeria Universities offer any fundamental theory of GSM communication.

The course that is supposed to be the basis of telecomunication in Nigeria is majorly on broadcasting (AM & FM, Television etc). I must tell you with that kind of situation it will be very difficult to really be up to date.

In my own opinion, the curriculum of the institutions should be reviewed latest every three years. The review may not neccesarily mean a change in the existing one but at least it will take care of neccesary things.

For example with the preparation towards debut of GSM in Nigeria in 2001, the NUC ought to have implemented a change in its curriculum as regards telecommunication related courses in Nigeria universities.

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

hmm..
you just hit the nail on the head..
our policies aint proactive...

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Maybe its because most of our policy makers are not passionate about improving the system. But sometimes, when the policies appear to be laudable, their implementation leaves much to be desired !

PARENTs,

It beats my imagination whenever i watch it in home movie where parents are seen collaboarting with their children for exam malpractice. I just feel it is a homemovie issue, until recently when a parent was arrested in trying to smuggle in solved leaked exam questions paper to one of the GCE centres. IT IS TERRIBLE.
Can you imagine a situation where parents hired machineries to write exam for their kids.

Also in the same line of thinking, it is a coomon thing to see people impersonating others in exams. The worst side of the stuff is that the culprits are mainly very intelligent youths who are already in the higher institutions.

I strongly suggest the 21 yrs imprisonment rule on exam malpratices should be enforced. Also if you are a university/poly student caught impersonating in any GCE center, the university/poly should rusticate such a student irrespective of his academic standing. Simply put such a student is irrsponsible immaterial of his academic prowess.

What are you guys opinion about my suggestions i just hope I am not being too mean?

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

The culprits are mostly from the high strata of our society (as in parents trying to smuggle in solved papers), and remember that our laws seem to be made for the poor only.

Maybe our emphasis on paper qualification is also an issue.

A friend of mine totally disagree with me on the issue of POST-UME screening exam, He condemmed it in totality stressing rather that JAMB is good enough if only things are done right.

But personally I am of the opinion that JAMB should be scrap while we revert back to A'level as it used to be.

Guys I need your opinion on this.

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

Well,
UI don scrap all UME candidates....and dem don annouce for radio say make people no pick UI for next UME.
is this a right or wrong decision???
ahn?

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GB!,

Are you telling me as from next academic session there won't be 100L students in UI or is it a temporal measure to accomodate th backlog of UME students who took the institution in previous academic session?
Pls do expatiate.

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

wat....Great UI wan render som people dreams...impossible...
y dat move from UI?

I wonder...I just wonder

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In Life's Pursuits, Never Outrun God [Prov. 19:21]
1luv...

i guess they only wanna admit thru their post UME exams.. but this time.. u no need UME scores.. maybe O levels or smth sha.. lets wait to see their wonder.

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In Life's Pursuits, Never Outrun God [Prov. 19:21]
1luv...

i actually spoke with one of their lectures yesterday.
he told me smth about UI planning to be a PG/research centric institution..
hmm that sounds nice..
like MIT and Princeton.. that wont be a bad idea in Africa at least...

Sorry for those people who have sworn never to study anywhere else.. but UI for undergrads...
UI na for eko agba oooo

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

yeah thats true..
the lecturer also mentioned smth like that... regularising..
i think the grad only stuff is a long term plan..
the lecturere na ogbonge for their senate.. so i guess he only told me the future ...
regularising?? well the next question is; what is the assurance that they wont deregularise again??
have they pulled out of ASUU, NASU, SSANU??
have all their cultists turned to God or did they disarm recently???

i only pity their present undergraduates though.. coz they have more days to spend in schul.. especially those in final year.

My thought.
Gb!

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

Guys! honestly i think is time for us to start thinking about the future of our children oo. Gb, Jiggo can u imagine your children going through all the assle to enter public universities? I think is time to start preparing for the future. By then I'm sure the school fee for private university will worth 0.5million if not more. I predict by then public universities will no longer exist. How do will survive??

Well, sorry to contaminate this thread, but mike

NO be who first marry dey first born. No be who first enta skul dey first graduate. No be who first born dey first born boy . . . ., as in it doesnt matter if you have a head start, cos that alone doesn't guarantee that you will finish first !

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