Draft NUC Guidelines on Promotion in Nigerian Universities

A Google scholar with an H-index of 40 for a full professorial appointment in the sciences (see page 10 of the report) is an unrealistic expectation. I am curious as to why so much emphasis and credit is given to single-authored publication when multidisciplinary collaboration is the mantra in the 21st century!

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Jun 12, 2019, 6:10:35 AM6/12/19

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I think these measures are a corrective to the 3 a penny academics being peddled by the new generation private universities and the unrealistic wage bill and emoluments of university teachers to which governmenrs have to contribute. I expect a levelling out to occur in the coming years when new private universities find they are unable to source personnel for their institutional because if the length of time it takes so produce competent academics for the higher posts. If academics are thinnly spread higher education entrepreneurs will have to look for other avenues for investment potential in the interest of quality education This will be akin to the distressed banks scenario and bank capitalization process.

Yes you are right that in certain disciplines like the sciences multidisciplinary research and publication are much more realistic to push the boundaries of knowledge than say the liberal arts where an author may write five plays in one year or in my own core discipline of comparative literature where I might produce ten literary translatiins ( single authored in a year.) No single academic ( and in some cases institution) in the sciences can provide the financial funding for a successful research on which publications are based. But not all scientific research (and publications) are of this nature so each discipline will need to prioritize and argue their peculiarities

Government should now turn its attention to itself by evolving a similar scheme on how the governmental political institutions are manned and run with a view to affordability. Im thinking here along the lines of reforms suggested by Moses Ochonu (in his recent article) and I in rationalizing liberal democratic praxis for developing nations and multi ethnic and multi religious polities ( I think with decreased work load this week I shall be able to give a rejoinder to the article.) If it can be done for the banks and the universities it surely can be done for the bloated political system.

OAA.

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A Google scholar with an H-index of 40 for a full professorial appointment in the sciences (see page 10 of the report) is an unrealistic expectation. I am curious as to why so much emphasis and credit is given to single-authored publication when multidisciplinary collaboration is the mantra in the 21st century!

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:22 PM Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

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