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Yap thanks. E be like sey u stay with elders well well.
But no allow the women emancipation group hear u den go talk sey whether na girl abi na boy na the samething.
Can you recollect MTN advert Mama na boy and the wahala wey follow am before e become Mama e don born.
On a seriuos note you are very correct.
_________________ If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today . ......Mike Bertola.
It is a common thing for Nigeria universities to retain their best gradutaing students as lecturers in their various departments.
Looking at the situation lately I feel the idea is a noble one but is like it is counterproductive in the engineering departments.
As we are all aware most of our enigineering lecturers lack technical/field experience, so we keep revolving around the same cycle.
In my own suggestion I think those best brains should go to the industry first and armed themselves with the neccesary technical know-how before returning to the classroom.
On this note, I strongly appeal to you guys to have it in your longtime plan the idea of giving back to the universities either by
retiring to the class rooms, as visiting lecturers or as part time lecturers .
I pray God help us.
_________________ If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today . ......Mike Bertola.
It's good to return to classroom especially for those that have penchant for knowledge impartation. But just that not many would leave their juicy salaries in the industries to teach in one obodo village.
But it will do a lot in correcting things if we can think along this line. So let's start the campaign now among the right-thinking members of the society.
I think it depends on the school. Let me share a personal experience with you while I was in the University.
In my 200L I observed that our 500L students often go for lectures in the night (7:30PM) so I made enquiries and I was told it is a lecture on Power system Engineering taken by a staff of NEPA who works in Shiroro dam, Shiroro is about 30 - 45mins from Minna.
The interesting part is that the class is always filled to the brim simply because the course is being taken by an authority in the field who has both theoritical and practical experience. His influence was a major factor in student excursions to Shiroro dam. At any time, our department is willing to go for excursion Shiroro dam is one of the places that is ever ready to welcome the students.
In my 300L a retired Director (in his 60s) from ministry of Works and Housing returned to my school as a lecturer and he was warmly welcome. Infact, when he started teaching he comes to lecture with his prepared Note(typeset) and distribute to us freely despite our large number in the class.
He stays in his personal house in Maitama, Abuja, comes to school with his personal driver. It was really an intresting experience and a well attended lecture. He was a source of motivation to sevaeral number of us. At the moment he is the HOD of the department.
Just imagine a Globacom/MTN/CElTEL engineer taken Fundamental Principle of telecommunication in any university, it will be a great lecture interspersed with stories of true life situations where certain theories were applied to meet certain challanges.
Coming home to this forum, I know quite a number of us are programming Guru, it will be a great experience for both the students and such individuals to lecture guys on programming.
At the moment I know of two SHELL geologist that are visiting lecturers to Nasarrawa State University.
The most important thing is to have the passion to contribute in that capacity. I strongly believe some Nigeria universities are ripe for such contribution from well meaning Nigerians.
_________________ If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today . ......Mike Bertola.
But I have much more unpleasant stories about
such "redemption returns". Wont like to share them though.
Point is, if experienced people get a chance to return, of course they should, but those responsible should try to create an enabling environment for that. Because it will encourage more of such experts to return, and that would do a lot of good.
Have you also considered Mentoring?
In the UK/US, even professionals who are not returning back to lecture, are connected with current students in a mentoring scheme, operated by the Universities. They share experiences with their mentee students, advice them on career options, and motivate them, using email/phone/face-2-face meetings. I even know of 2 students who have been offered jobs (in British Petroleum, and Chevron UK) by their mentors! Imagine as a Petroleum engineering student, having your "official" mentor as Greg Washington (Head, Well Engineering, Shell Worldwide). If its just the motivation you get alone.
We can explore this. Let our universities connect their alumni who are now in industry with current students. Each alumni can mentor say 3 current students, they exchange emails, SMS, etc. The students can even use this to get I.T Placements (I know job offers are not likely to be possible), learn from their mentors.
We can take a cue from those that have already returned to classrooms. If we are to consider the 'unworkable' system we might not move forward. There was this lecturer, Ebenezer Obadare at the department of International Relations, Ife. He went for further studies abroad. He afterwards returned to his leacturing chair at Ife but he was 'beefed' and denied the job. He left in frustration to LSE for phd and he got the best thesis for that year among other international awards. He has been appointed assistant professor at Kansas. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CCS/wh ... badare.htm
You see that. If we are to base our decison on that factor alone we would not contribute our much needed quota.
As for Yar'adua, I think the guy is still manageable among the PinDinPin candidates as nothing near corruption has yet tto be linked to him. He's well read too, performed in his state. May God help him to bring the necessary changes to education. For more on this and other political chats catch ya at politics section of the forum.
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