Nigeria’s tertiary education system is falling apart and everything is being blamed for that – from the government’s inability to fund universities to failure to grant them autonomy. Beyond that, the quality of teachers is seen as a clog in the effective education of the country’s youths, writes Head, Education Desk, IYABO LAWAL
In January 2015, the report of the Needs Assessment on Nigerian universities had shown that less than 50 percent of lecturers had doctoral degrees. The National Universities Commission (NUC) had pointed out that inadequate teaching staffs in the right mix and quality have had negative effect on accreditation performance of universities.
The then Deputy Director of the NUC, Ashafa Ladan, had warned that some private universities’ proprietors would “either have their operating licences suspended or undergo forensic auditing due to their failure to put in place proper structure for governance and…