Re: VCs, Let Tuition-Free Varsities Stay
Joseph Igietseme
A time has come in Nigeria when VCs [like University Presidents elsewhere] should be developing innovative or creative ways to mobilize public, private and community resources for institutional advancements in curriculum, infrastructures, academics, research, endowments and revenue stream.
The continuing reliance on Govts' periodic handouts is reflected in the woes and degeneration of the public institutions in all sectors as the SINGLE source of support struggles.
Besides, thinking out of the box may be a way forward for VCs; for example, it should be possible for some of universities to decide to convert into SINGLE or few products corporate entities where students are enrolled to focus on the knowledge and expertise for producing certain commercializable products or services that address critical national needs. The curriculum and training in such universities will be structured to meet the production or services needs.
Good examples of such products/services focused institutions are independent medical schools attached to teaching hospitals. The focus of the teaching hospital is healthcare delivery services. When basic & clinical medical training are attached to the teaching hospital, you have an institution that's both a service delivery business & a medical school. Similarly, we should be able to establish food, beverages, automotive, wood/metallurgy universities (or other tertiary institutions) that are focused on specific products & incorporate educational curricula for training students in the fields of those products or services.
Local and international corporate bodies and well as public agencies in charge of producing or supplying certain products/services in the country should easily buy into such an innovative university education.
In addition, the students are trained as production or marketing managers by the time they graduate. Entrepreneurship can be heavily promoted by such an educational system as well. Furthermore, this approach will likely fast-track industrialization, production and export economy in the nation. Of course, a KEY requirement for a successful knowledge-based, production-focused university is REGULAR ELECTRICITY! Without this SINGULAR Utility, the aspiration for national industrialization, advancement in national R&D/innovation or push toward an export economy will continue to be a pipe dream!
Our VCs should try SOMETHING DIFFERENT to move Nigeria FORWARD!
GOD HELP NIGERIA. JUI [J
Joe Igietseme]
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Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe PhD
Good talk.
This is what I expect from you.
Really very positive input.
More is expected from you.
I will add that VCs in the South could apply the same suggestion to Agriculture from farming to fisheries. Engineering Schools could look deeply into our herbs and native medicines in research to recover useful components for the Medical Industry. Here in Argentina native medicines in herbs and tea are available in all pharmaceutical shops. I purchased some that have really helped my blood pressure. Our people can do that too.
Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe PhD
The Okatakye of Africa
Florida. Buenos Aires
Argentina
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Subject: [africanworldforum] Re: VCs, Let Tuition-Free Varsities Stay
John Ebohon
“A time has come in Nigeria when VCs [like University Presidents elsewhere] should be developing innovative or creative ways to mobilize public, private and community resources for institutional advancements in curriculum, infrastructures, academics, research, endowments and revenue stream.” – My brother Joe
My brother Joe,
How I wish Nigeria was like elsewhere for university VCs to be able to act, as you have suggested. Even in this so called elsewhere you mentioned, you will find that ‘Govts’ periodic handouts’ still amount to more than 70% of total revenue. Do you remember the allegations and suspicion brought on Prof. Aluko when he dared solicit for donations abroad for his university? How I wish Nigeria and its people are that matured for the kind of innovation you talked about. Remember that there have been no such innovations, that have enabled developments in other parts of the world, introduced in Nigeria without having been bastardised. I can just imagine universities independence easily undermined, and the politics of appointing VCs becoming far more intense and protracted. Glad to read from you after a long break.
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