THISDAY "Investigation: This is your university
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Ikhide
Oct 6, 2013, 11:51:53 PM10/6/13
to Toyin Falola
"UNIBEN…
‘It’s decay is beyond the Nigerian Prisons’ rot’
Perhaps one of the most devastating cases of university rot is the decay in the University of Benin. “There are actually three situations. Teaching, learning and living: Teaching on the part of lecturers, learning on the part of students, and living on the part of both lecturers and students. But in all of these ramifications, the situation is terrible. It is worse than the situation in Nigerian prisons or the Police College, where the president visited unceremoniously sometime ago after a documentary by a television station,” was how the Chairman of the institution’s branch of ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, described the rot in the school to THISDAY last week.
‘It’s decay is beyond the Nigerian Prisons’ rot’
Perhaps one of the most devastating cases of university rot is the decay in the University of Benin. “There are actually three situations. Teaching, learning and living: Teaching on the part of lecturers, learning on the part of students, and living on the part of both lecturers and students. But in all of these ramifications, the situation is terrible. It is worse than the situation in Nigerian prisons or the Police College, where the president visited unceremoniously sometime ago after a documentary by a television station,” was how the Chairman of the institution’s branch of ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, described the rot in the school to THISDAY last week.
UNIBEN, one of the pride of the nation, is a moving story of a university in a dire need of attention from the governments at all levels as well as from its array of alumnae.
“For instance, if you go to the libraries, the books there are old and outdated. So more or less what we teach students and what they go to read are old and out-dated materials. And in terms of sciences, especially those that require practical, there is no equipment to conduct such, and what we do is what we call alternative to practical or theory of practical by telling the students, if this is not available, this is what
you do; and this is not learning."
Please find time to read this. I enjoyed reading it; it is a useful document in this debate. However, it is a long, rambling, grammatically challenged epistle that speaks volumes for the kinds of graduates that are exiting Nigerian universities and becoming "journalists" and "writers." Apparently, Nduka Obaigbena does not invest in editors. The rot in our universities is simply a mirror of pretty much what goes on everywhere else. Our educational system is producing "graduates" walking molotov cocktails that proudly walk around the place wearing big titles that only exaggerate their poor education. It is a disaster all around.
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