Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has said that Nigeria leadership lacked integrity in governance, which resulted in a systematic and not a carefully designed agenda to paralyse public university education to make way for a market-based privatization of university education.
The union, through its President, Nasir Fagge Isa, spoke in Ibadan on Thursday at the 63rd University of Ibadan Postgraduate School Interdisciplinary discourse on the topic, “ASUU struggles and the revitilization of public university education in Nigeria.”
He said that ASUU’s struggles were predicated on the belief that “the university system is deformed, its driving philosophy is mortally damaged and its established purpose is still-born”.
But, the union lamented that the Federal Government policy for universities to generate funds internally had converted university professors to animal butchers and hawkers.
According to Fagge, “IGR policy of government has meant a shift of focus to production of bread, pure water, fish sale and sale of meat. Universities are now competing with the same peasant traders they are supposed to serve, some, like the University of Ibadan, close their campuses to goods from outsider and run a close economy while the Department of Economics teach competition and free market. that “ASUU struggles have helped to improve the infrastructural and manpower development in Nigerian universities.
“The postgraduate programme of the institution attracts over 10,000 applicants yearly and that there is a paradigm shift to online application, completion and submission of form of forms including referees of candidates.
“As the hub of training university teachers, certificates of postgraduate students are now collected on the day of convocation as a radical departure from the past.”
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