Education is a transformation tool in any
given society and
it should be held in high esteem. The future of
Nigeria education has
been relegated by various stakeholders
(including, F.G and ASUU) in the sector. It is unfortunate that the
government that is vested with
the responsibility of ensuring sustainable
development in all
ramification through education claimed to
have skiped some allowances of teachers in higher institutions of learning
during the preparation
of it fiscal budget for 2013. A contract or
agreement that is duly
signed by parties is deemed to be binding on
the parties involved, but the Nigeria government that should uphold
this has failed to implement
such agreement which it entered into with
ASUU in 2009, which in turn
leads to a breach and violation of contract.
The Nigerian National Policy on Education specify the standard and
goals of higher education in Nigeria, but the
government has failed in
meeting up to such standard in terms of
infrastructural development,
research development and facilities, also in building a total,
functional and a self reliance education in the
youths in order to
avert crises and high rate of social menace
and moral decadences.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the other
hand has failed to accept the fact that there
exist social
stratification of the “Haves” and Have Nots” in
the society as the
“Haves” i.e the rich does not want access to quality or eminence
education by the “Have Nots” i.e the poor,
thereby igniting incessant
struggle between the two class and the
universities staff also belong
to the class of the “Have Not” i.e the lower class in which the common
parent and students are included, (poor
against poor).
The act of frequent declaration of strike action
by ASUU is not at
all time the solution for government to meet up their demands because
the end product of the strike action often falls
back on the lower
class in the society i.e the “Have Nots” . The
claim of ASUU is the
government refusal to grant the lecturer’s allowances and
extra-payment on student’s project
supervision, examination
supervision, workload allowances, etc… The
question is that with all
the salaries and municipal revenue generated by public universities,
are they able to meet up to the minimum local
standard talk much of
international standard?. The rich men children
are flown abroad to
obtain a qualitative and valuable education. The Nigerian professors
are merely theoretical in nature and
dispositions, however, lecturers
believe in examination and regurgitation of
knowledge from students,
they also perpetuate all manners of academic corruption which is
systemic. Some of the universities lecturer’s
performance can not be
equated to their rewards or benefits as their
job performance is
relatively low in contrast to their economic return. They do no longer
assume that the rewards of teachers are in
heaven as so many of them
strive for various kinds of political
appointments in both state and
federal level under the disguise of “ASUU”. The poor man and students
should not suffer for this. Education has
become a game and teddy bear
in the hands of F.G and ASUU. A bachelor
degree programme that should
last for four(4) years is now been elongated to five(5) years, thereby
increasing the cost on education for both
parent and individual
student in a highly competitive and relatively
low returns on
investment on education society like Nigeria. In conclusion, ASUU and F.G should recognize
that the future of
this country and the education of its citizens
for overall development
are premised on the formulations and
implantation of positive educational and social policies. However, I
hereby appeal to the
conscience of ASUU and Federal Government
of Nigeria to immediately
speed up actions in resolving and
implementing the October 2009 joint agreement between them to rescue the
nation’s educational system.
- AKINFOLARIN AKINWALE V.
(08137120446)
given society and
it should be held in high esteem. The future of
Nigeria education has
been relegated by various stakeholders
(including, F.G and ASUU) in the sector. It is unfortunate that the
government that is vested with
the responsibility of ensuring sustainable
development in all
ramification through education claimed to
have skiped some allowances of teachers in higher institutions of learning
during the preparation
of it fiscal budget for 2013. A contract or
agreement that is duly
signed by parties is deemed to be binding on
the parties involved, but the Nigeria government that should uphold
this has failed to implement
such agreement which it entered into with
ASUU in 2009, which in turn
leads to a breach and violation of contract.
The Nigerian National Policy on Education specify the standard and
goals of higher education in Nigeria, but the
government has failed in
meeting up to such standard in terms of
infrastructural development,
research development and facilities, also in building a total,
functional and a self reliance education in the
youths in order to
avert crises and high rate of social menace
and moral decadences.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the other
hand has failed to accept the fact that there
exist social
stratification of the “Haves” and Have Nots” in
the society as the
“Haves” i.e the rich does not want access to quality or eminence
education by the “Have Nots” i.e the poor,
thereby igniting incessant
struggle between the two class and the
universities staff also belong
to the class of the “Have Not” i.e the lower class in which the common
parent and students are included, (poor
against poor).
The act of frequent declaration of strike action
by ASUU is not at
all time the solution for government to meet up their demands because
the end product of the strike action often falls
back on the lower
class in the society i.e the “Have Nots” . The
claim of ASUU is the
government refusal to grant the lecturer’s allowances and
extra-payment on student’s project
supervision, examination
supervision, workload allowances, etc… The
question is that with all
the salaries and municipal revenue generated by public universities,
are they able to meet up to the minimum local
standard talk much of
international standard?. The rich men children
are flown abroad to
obtain a qualitative and valuable education. The Nigerian professors
are merely theoretical in nature and
dispositions, however, lecturers
believe in examination and regurgitation of
knowledge from students,
they also perpetuate all manners of academic corruption which is
systemic. Some of the universities lecturer’s
performance can not be
equated to their rewards or benefits as their
job performance is
relatively low in contrast to their economic return. They do no longer
assume that the rewards of teachers are in
heaven as so many of them
strive for various kinds of political
appointments in both state and
federal level under the disguise of “ASUU”. The poor man and students
should not suffer for this. Education has
become a game and teddy bear
in the hands of F.G and ASUU. A bachelor
degree programme that should
last for four(4) years is now been elongated to five(5) years, thereby
increasing the cost on education for both
parent and individual
student in a highly competitive and relatively
low returns on
investment on education society like Nigeria. In conclusion, ASUU and F.G should recognize
that the future of
this country and the education of its citizens
for overall development
are premised on the formulations and
implantation of positive educational and social policies. However, I
hereby appeal to the
conscience of ASUU and Federal Government
of Nigeria to immediately
speed up actions in resolving and
implementing the October 2009 joint agreement between them to rescue the
nation’s educational system.
- AKINFOLARIN AKINWALE V.
(08137120446)
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