The Founder and Chancellor of the Afe Babalola College Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola SAN, on Monday urged the Nationwide College Fee (NUC), to utterly overhaul the college licensing course of to make sure the very best normal of schooling.
He additionally referred to as on the NUC to take rapid steps to shut these mushroom universities, a lot of that are unlawful and are working with out the permission of regulatory physique.
The authorized Icon lamented that college licensing and accreditation, in addition to the NUC’s potential to make sure high quality management and to stamp out substandard establishments, seems to have been significantly compromised.
He acknowledged this in Ado-Ekiti on the Excessive Affect Analysis and Journal Development Workshop organized by the ABUAD Journal of Sustainable Growth Regulation and Coverage.
Babalola mentioned: “What do we have now immediately? The mass approval of mushroom and substandard universities with some missing even the essential studying amenities and infrastructure. The strict compliance with regulation and guidelines has been brushed apart now.
“Because of the “something goes” strategy to school licensing and accreditation, NUC’s potential to make sure high quality management, and to stamp out substandard establishments, seems to have been significantly compromised. We at present have over 270 universities in Nigeria, and proposals for the approval of one other 200 new establishments are at present into consideration by the Nationwide Meeting.
“The main focus now appears to be on amount not high quality, licensing extra universities with out enough plans for monitoring their requirements. The tip result’s a fast decline and decay of our academic system and within the high quality of our graduates. What we want is high quality schooling. Poor schooling is worse than illiteracy.”
Persevering with, the ABUAD Chancellor mentioned, “We can’t significantly communicate of advancing sustainable improvement by way of excessive impression analysis except we handle this menace of the proliferation of substandard universities in our nation.
“Mushroom and substandard universities recruit substandard college members, who conduct substandard analysis which can be printed by substandard publishers, leading to substandard and half-baked graduates which have little or nothing to supply to nationwide improvement.”
In his keynote lecture titled: Selling Excessive-Affect Analysis Publications for Sustainable Nationwide Growth in Nigeria: Alternatives, Challenges, and Future Instructions, the previous Govt Secretary of the NUC , Prof Peter Okebukola lamented the insufficient funding for analysis and improvement.
“Analysis funding in Nigeria is basically depending on federal authorities allocations, that are inadequate to help large-scale or sustained commercialization efforts. Restricted entry to enterprise capital or private-sector funding additional stifles the flexibility to scale improvements.”
In his welcome remarks, the Deputy Vice Chancellor Analysis, Innovation and Strategic Partnership, Prof Damilola Olawuyi, mentioned solely only a few Universities in Nigeria can boast of getting a SCOPUS-Listed journal, including that ABUAD leads on this space.
“The ABUAD Journal of Sustainable Growth Regulation and Coverage is listed by SCOPUS, a premier on-line database containing over 2000 main journals. Additionally it is listed on HeinOnline, Westlaw. Asian Science and Quotation Index (ASCI), EBSCO, Ingenta Join, SCILIT. MIRABEL, CrossRef, German EZB, ProQuest and the African Journals On-line (AJOL), one of many largest archiving databases for main African journals.
“Accredited by the South African Division of Larger Schooling and Coaching (DHET) -the equal of the Nationwide Universities Fee of Nigeria, our Journal can also be a member of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE), UK, the Listing of Open Entry Journals (DOAJ), the African Journals On-line (AJOL), and is totally compliant with the RCUK Open Entry Coverage. That is due to this fact a global and world class journal, revealed in Ado Ekiti for the world.”
