Professor Julius Okojie, the
Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), on Friday said
that the minimum qualification to be engaged as lecturers in Nigerian
universities is doctorate degree and must be observed by all universities in
the country.
Okojie, said this, on Wednesday in
Abuja, when he received a delegation of the Study Group 5 of Senior Executive
Course 37 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS),
Kuru, Jos, Plateau State, led by Professor Celestine Bassey, on study tour of
strategic institutions.
He refuted a comment by one of the
delegates that some universities recruit those with master’s degrees and in
some cases, first degrees, a situation the NIPSS participant said was
responsible for poor quality graduates churned out by universities.
Okojie explained that the Federal
Government, through Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), had embarked on
aggressive training of lecturers, both locally and overseas, towards ensuring
that the problem of shortage of qualified lecturers in the university system is
addressed.
He, however, maintained that the
quality of graduates from Nigerian universities was globally competitive,
saying many graduates from Nigerian universities who have proceeded to do their
postgraduate programmes abroad always outshine those from other parts of the
world.
Okojie told the delegation that the
commission had successfully dealt with the issue of illegally universities that
were springing up in the country some years back, adding that apart from
closure of such illegal institutions, some of their promoters were prosecuted
in courts and jailed.
Source:liveschoolnews
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