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Tuesday 8 January 2008, 6:09 AM
NITDA to review, upgrade and harmonise universities' ICT curricula Q1-2008
-You can't teach old dogs new tricks!
However "sincere" NITDA (National Information Technology Development Agency) might want to be it seems to neglect the ugly fact the most of the tertiary institutions (especially the Govt. owned, premier varsities) are remanded with under-sponsored academics who (ASSU) had been calling for upgrades/reforms across boards in Nigerian tertiary -the result, Federal Government abdicating and bullying the rebellious striking-lecturers.
Some of these frustrated lecturers in the course of dispensing their duties find solace, or transfer vented anger on students by demanding money and/or sex for grades; traveling indiscriminately for "sabbaticals", and taking up lucrative part-time consultancy with firms or private institutions.
There had been many UNDP sponsored programmes deployed in many institutions but because the platform for capacity building is poor many were neglected, underused, and pilfered.
With the few opportunities provided by foreign ICT companies through industrial training for students; the Internet exposure, lecturers are challenged by informed-students to self-upgrade. However, some do not see it positively and misconceive it as humiliation -they must be detoxicated of their conceitedness and re-orientated.
Considering the rate Nigerian Govt. Institutions are ascending in hypocrisy, we'll soon have a space station without single Nigerian astronaut.
(Response to story by Business Day: http://www.businessdayonline.com/national/1834.html)
-Dis na Naija!
-doregos
Tributes:
BUSINESSDAY - http://businessdayonline.com
However "sincere" NITDA (National Information Technology Development Agency) might want to be it seems to neglect the ugly fact the most of the tertiary institutions (especially the Govt. owned, premier varsities) are remanded with under-sponsored academics who (ASSU) had been calling for upgrades/reforms across boards in Nigerian tertiary -the result, Federal Government abdicating and bullying the rebellious striking-lecturers.
Some of these frustrated lecturers in the course of dispensing their duties find solace, or transfer vented anger on students by demanding money and/or sex for grades; traveling indiscriminately for "sabbaticals", and taking up lucrative part-time consultancy with firms or private institutions.
There had been many UNDP sponsored programmes deployed in many institutions but because the platform for capacity building is poor many were neglected, underused, and pilfered.
With the few opportunities provided by foreign ICT companies through industrial training for students; the Internet exposure, lecturers are challenged by informed-students to self-upgrade. However, some do not see it positively and misconceive it as humiliation -they must be detoxicated of their conceitedness and re-orientated.
Considering the rate Nigerian Govt. Institutions are ascending in hypocrisy, we'll soon have a space station without single Nigerian astronaut.
(Response to story by Business Day: http://www.businessdayonline.com/national/1834.html)
-Dis na Naija!
-doregos
Tributes:
BUSINESSDAY - http://businessdayonline.com
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