1. Nigerian Lecturers rank among the best trained but worst paid globally. From the UK to the US, Australia to China, South Africa to Ghana, Nigeria-born lecturers dominate many fields of study. “Brain drain” has been used appropriately to describe this scenario.
A good percentage of lecturers practicing in Nigeria do get mouth-watering offers to relocate abroad, but they reject such offers and remain at home out of patriotism and service to their fatherland.

2. Excess workload has become a norm with Nigerian university lecturers. University lecturers are at work twenty-four-seven! Due to the high demand for university admission, especially in Federal universities, many academic departments have enrolments that exceed their capacity.
Secondly, the erosion of university autonomy makes it hard to employ new lecturers to fill vacuums left by many retired professors; hence most departments are understaffed.

Thirdly, lecturers take more work home than other categories of government workers. It is in the quiet of their homes, usually at night, that most lecturers study, prepare their lectures, mark students’ scripts, and come up with solutions to the research problems they are tackling.

3. Foreign countries provide more funds for research in Nigeria. Many developed nations like the US, UK, EU, Germany, Japan, China and more support research and teaching in Nigeria through research grants, sponsorship of conference attendance, equipping of laboratories and the provision of many other facilities in Nigerian universities.
The assistance of these countries are visible through their institutions. For instance, The Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Cadbury Research fellowship Scheme (UK), American Council for Learned Society (US), Carnegie Foundation, Fulbright Fellowship (US) award scores of generous post-doctoral fellowships and research grants to Nigerian academics every year.

4. Research and publication count more for lecturers’ promotion than teaching. Unlike the civil service, one’s number of years in service does not count much in the promotion of university lecturers. It is quite common to see a student overtake his lecturer to become a professor while the person that taught him does not rise above the position of a senior lecturer.
It is interesting to observe that lecturers are promoted for the quality of their research and the quantity of their publications than their teaching skills or the number of years in service. That is the origin of the saying: “Publish or perish!”
Consequently, it is wrong to assume that university lecturers are “free” during semester breaks, when they are not lecturing or when they are on strike. There are many more activities that occupy university lecturers than basic classroom or laboratory activities.

5. “Sabbatical leave” is a special leave enjoyed by researchers and university lecturers; hence no one should begrudge them for it. Sabbatical leave is a global practice that permits a lecturer to visit another university every seventh year to teach and engage in research. While such a lecturer continues to draw his/her salary from the university where s/he works, the university s/he visits will also pay him or her full salary for the sabbatical year.
Payment of “double salary” to university lecturers on sabbatical leave is one of the main grouse the Nigerian lecturers union has with the Federal Government on the inclusion of lecturers on the IPPIS (Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System) platform for the payment of the monthly salary of Nigerian government workers.

6. University lecturers’ union is the only credible labor union left in the country. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is arguably one of the few Nigerian labor unions whose leaders have not soiled their hands with bribery from the Nigerian authorities.
Nigerian lecturers’ union, more than any other labor union, has been in the forefront of wrestling fair wages for Nigerian workers from the Nigerian government.

7. Most “sex-for-marks” moves in Nigerian universities are initiated by female students.There has been much public outcry about “sex-for-marks” in Nigerian universities. Inasmuch as I do not subscribe to such ugly acts, the bitter truth that must be told is that many female university students do offer themselves tantalizingly to males that could assist them academically or financially, not minding the man’s age or status,.
Consequently, many “lazy” female students are taken advantage of by both academic and non-academic staff members (especially those with access to computer records) that could assist in altering academic records. The public hardly hear of such cases, and they are in the majority.

Closing Remarks. Lecturing is not a job for all comers; neither is it for mere job seekers looking for easy money. It is for patriots with a passion for the progress of the nation and the development of its people.
Whoever does not love reading, research and writing should not aspire to become a lecturer. Today’s youths are more complex than the previous generations. So if you do not love youths, don’t venture into lecturing.

http://opera.com

bias lecturer spotted

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Ok

Ok

I have the teaching skills, but lack writing & research skills..

One of my aspiration is to end up teaching in the Higher Institutions.

I'm in my final year now studying physics education.. Any hope for Me.....?

Well captured.

DaInferno:
bias lecturer spotted

What he posted is the truth

ImmaculateJOE:
I have the teaching skills, but lack writing & research skills..

One of my aspiration is to end up teaching in the Higher Institutions.

I'm in my final year now studying physics education.. Any hope for Me.....?

Yes, apply for postgraduate degree where you would be groomed for research

sinkhole:


1. Nigerian Lecturers rank among the best trained but worst paid globally. From the UK to the US, Australia to China, South Africa to Ghana, Nigeria-born lecturers dominate many fields of study. “Brain drain” has been used appropriately to describe this scenario.
A good percentage of lecturers practicing in Nigeria do get mouth-watering offers to relocate abroad, but they reject such offers and remain at home out of patriotism and service to their fatherland.

2. Excess workload has become a norm with Nigerian university lecturers. University lecturers are at work twenty-four-seven! Due to the high demand for university admission, especially in Federal universities, many academic departments have enrolments that exceed their capacity.
Secondly, the erosion of university autonomy makes it hard to employ new lecturers to fill vacuums left by many retired professors; hence most departments are understaffed.

Thirdly, lecturers take more work home than other categories of government workers. It is in the quiet of their homes, usually at night, that most lecturers study, prepare their lectures, mark students’ scripts, and come up with solutions to the research problems they are tackling.

3. Foreign countries provide more funds for research in Nigeria. Many developed nations like the US, UK, EU, Germany, Japan, China and more support research and teaching in Nigeria through research grants, sponsorship of conference attendance, equipping of laboratories and the provision of many other facilities in Nigerian universities.
The assistance of these countries are visible through their institutions. For instance, The Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Cadbury Research fellowship Scheme (UK), American Council for Learned Society (US), Carnegie Foundation, Fulbright Fellowship (US) award scores of generous post-doctoral fellowships and research grants to Nigerian academics every year.

4. Research and publication count more for lecturers’ promotion than teaching. Unlike the civil service, one’s number of years in service does not count much in the promotion of university lecturers. It is quite common to see a student overtake his lecturer to become a professor while the person that taught him does not rise above the position of a senior lecturer.
It is interesting to observe that lecturers are promoted for the quality of their research and the quantity of their publications than their teaching skills or the number of years in service. That is the origin of the saying: “Publish or perish!”
Consequently, it is wrong to assume that university lecturers are “free” during semester breaks, when they are not lecturing or when they are on strike. There are many more activities that occupy university lecturers than basic classroom or laboratory activities.

5. “Sabbatical leave” is a special leave enjoyed by researchers and university lecturers; hence no one should begrudge them for it. Sabbatical leave is a global practice that permits a lecturer to visit another university every seventh year to teach and engage in research. While such a lecturer continues to draw his/her salary from the university where s/he works, the university s/he visits will also pay him or her full salary for the sabbatical year.
Payment of “double salary” to university lecturers on sabbatical leave is one of the main grouse the Nigerian lecturers union has with the Federal Government on the inclusion of lecturers on the IPPIS (Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System) platform for the payment of the monthly salary of Nigerian government workers.

6. University lecturers’ union is the only credible labor union left in the country. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is arguably one of the few Nigerian labor unions whose leaders have not soiled their hands with bribery from the Nigerian authorities.
Nigerian lecturers’ union, more than any other labor union, has been in the forefront of wrestling fair wages for Nigerian workers from the Nigerian government.

7. Most “sex-for-marks” moves in Nigerian universities are initiated by female students.There has been much public outcry about “sex-for-marks” in Nigerian universities. Inasmuch as I do not subscribe to such ugly acts, the bitter truth that must be told is that many female university students do offer themselves tantalizingly to males that could assist them academically or financially, not minding the man’s age or status,.
Consequently, many “lazy” female students are taken advantage of by both academic and non-academic staff members (especially those with access to computer records) that could assist in altering academic records. The public hardly hear of such cases, and they are in the majority.

Closing Remarks. Lecturing is not a job for all comers; neither is it for mere job seekers looking for easy money. It is for patriots with a passion for the progress of the nation and the development of its people.
Whoever does not love reading, research and writing should not aspire to become a lecturer. Today’s youths are more complex than the previous generations. So if you do not love youths, don’t venture into lecturing.

http://opera.com

op i approve. God bless you.

edoairways:

What he posted is the truth

...yh, even the part where students are the first to request sex for marks

edoairways:

Yes, apply for postgraduate degree where you would be groomed for research

Alright.
Thanks for the clue..

DaInferno:
...yh, even the part where students are the first to request sex for marks

Yes even the sex for marks.

sinkhole:


... A good percentage of lecturers practicing in Nigeria do get mouth-watering offers to relocate abroad, but they reject such offers and remain at home out of patriotism and service to their fatherland.

A damage control thread to their battered reputation. Better late than never.

sinkhole:


1. Nigerian Lecturers rank among the best trained but worst paid globally. From the UK to the US, Australia to China, South Africa to Ghana, Nigeria-born lecturers dominate many fields of study. “Brain drain” has been used appropriately to describe this scenario.
A good percentage of lecturers practicing in Nigeria do get mouth-watering offers to relocate abroad, but they reject such offers and remain at home out of patriotism and service to their fatherland.


http://opera.com

See marketing. True but rare.

I suspect all these are in reaction to IPPIS. They bow see need to promote their peculiarities in advance and as a reaction to fraud-checking IPPIS alone. Good ground laying.

Let me talk about the sexfor mark. I think, this girls are the problem not the lecturers. When I was a student, I didn't even know any lecturer apart from my supervisor in final year. I once saw a girl dress half naked crying in the office of my supervisor because she failed her course. Bitch what do you expect from the man?