Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan
The Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, UI, Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka has identified inadequate funding as the main problem confronting higher education in Nigeria, stressing that government must properly fund universities to be globally competitive.
Olayinka who stated this on MITV said that quality education comes with sufficient cash adding, “What stops UI from recruiting a Professor of Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University to come and be teaching our students in Ibadan? But can we pay his salary? Will he be willing to come and be contending with all these money-induced incessant strike? What makes a world-class university is the quality of human resources. How many foreign lecturers and foreign students can Nigerian universities attract with our poor infrastructure and conditions? I think we need to…
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