Smart thoughts from a Nigerian(Yoruba)
F.G, you are the manager of our national patrimony. Please demand these from ASUU:-

1. Their members should stop the selling of handouts, they should make video DVDs of their lectures to serve as a supplementary learning aids for their students.

2. Each lecturer should have a blog (with threads) like that of Nairaland for him/her to interact with his/her students with for supplementary and effective communication (online Q&A sessions).

3. Lecturers should stop seeing themselves as demi-gods but as friends and parents to students. That all sadists and bad teachers (poor teaching skills) among them should be given Jonathan's booth.

4. All exam results must come out within 2 weeks after the completion of all exams so that students can know their results on time and be able to plan better for the next semester.

5. Graduates must get their certificates on their convocation day.

6. That examination should be re-designed to evaluate student's understanding of the course (application) and not student's ability to COPY & PASTE crammed definitions. Each lecturer should prepare a synoptic summary of his/ course which should then contain all the definitions and summary of what he/she wants to teach to aid students in the mastery of his/her course.

7. Productivity Allowance should only be paid to lecturers with 70% pass rate i.e 70% of his/her students must pass (C-pass) his/her course on merit based on effective teaching. Greatness lies in simplicity. If a lecturer has not mastered his/her subject to the extent that he/she is able to effectively teach it, then he/she is not fit to be employed in the system.

IF ASUU CAN FULFILL ALL THESE 7-POINT AGENDA, F.G, PLEASE DOUBLE THEIR SALARIES. IF THEY CAN'T , F.G PLEASE REDUCE THEIR SALARIES BY 50% AND LET THE LAW OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY BRING YOU ANOTHER SET OF WORK FORCE . THEY ARE SHORT CHANGING YOU (POOR SERVICE)!

STUDENTS DESERVE THE BEST. THE 7-POINT AGENDA IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE AND ASUU DOES NOT NEED BILLIONS TO DO THE ABOVE, THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TOOLS FOR THESE WITHIN THE SYSTEM.

IF ASUU WANTS THEIR MEMBERS TO BE PAID LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD, THEN THEY SHOULD ALSO DEMAND OF THEIR MEMBERS TO WORK LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD.

ASUU, YOU CAN DO BETTER.

1st ooooo......kai e no easy! #justpassing

am fully in support ,if they refuse we Nigerian student go on strike

I think I just realised this ASUU strike is all about lecturers pockets.

Very Good points!
But in addition, lecturers should not mark their own Exams scripts as it is done in Indian Universities. Or there should be second indepent examiner from another instution as it is done in UK universities.

tatosh: Smart thoughts from a Nigerian(Yoruba)
F.G, you are the manager of our national patrimony. Please demand these from ASUU:-

1. Their members should stop the selling of handouts, they should make video DVDs of their lectures to serve as a supplementary learning aids for their students.

Why should lecturers make Video DVDs? On whose budget? You think this is the norm everywhere, even in first world countries?
Not all lecturers sell handouts. Stereotypical assumptions of this nature is as idiotic as someone saying all students are cultists.

tatosh:

2. Each lecturer should have a blog (with threads) like that of Nairaland for him/her to interact with his/her students with for supplementary and effective communication (online Q&A sessions).

Why? In God's name, why? Interaction with students is left to the lecturers to define and decide. Why not ask for personal massages from your lecturers while you're at it?
Please go and show me the blog that Prof Alan Gringarten of Imperial College runs.
If a lecturer does this, this can provide good value...but asking for this to be mandated of all lecturers is just lunacy.

tatosh:
3. Lecturers should stop seeing themselves as demi-gods but as friends and parents to students. That all sadists and bad teachers (poor teaching skills) among them should be given Jonathan's booth.

Less of an issue for FG vs ASUU and more of a University administrative issue. The University council disciplines errant officers. Why are you students not uniting to provide strong negative feedback about poor lecturers to the University Council? Are you in Engineering? What's the NUESA Exco doing to engage the Dean of Engineering that Prof. XYZ does not show up in class for half the semester?

tatosh:

4. All exam results must come out within 2 weeks after the completion of all exams so that students can know their results on time and be able to plan better for the next semester.

Now I'm convinced the writer of this is an imbecilic dolt. University exams are done in the same period. The same lecturer teaching 3 courses is expected to mark hundreds of booklets, collate results and submit to a central body which will then collate results for thousands of students and release within two weeks?

Why not ask them to renounce life and family while you're at it?

tatosh:
5. Graduates must get their certificates on their convocation day.

Certificates are prepared and delivered by Exams and Records departments, whose members are NOT academic staff and are NOT ASUU members.
Are you sure you're a student?!

tatosh:
6. That examination should be re-designed to evaluate student's understanding of the course (application) and not student's ability to COPY & PASTE crammed definitions. Each lecturer should prepare a synoptic summary of his/ course which should then contain all the definitions and summary of what he/she wants to teach to aid students in the mastery of his/her course.

Thousands of words in, this is the only marginally sensible point you've made so far. Of course it can be argued that this 'synoptic summary' can be called a 'handout' which we've already established you want to see completely banned.

tatosh:
7. Productivity Allowance should only be paid to lecturers with 70% pass rate i.e 70% of his/her students must pass (C-pass) his/her course on merit based on effective teaching. Greatness lies in simplicity. If a lecturer has not mastered his/her subject to the extent that he/she is able to effectively teach it, then he/she is not fit to be employed in the system.

Again this continues the previous established trend of unintelligent comments. If you make a 70% pass rate necessary for payment of allowances, you WILL get 70% pass rates. There's no way to put this in place without the system being gamed. In other words, you want the FG to pay money to GUARANTEE 70% of students pass a course.
I suspect this point was not well thought through

tatosh:
IF ASUU CAN FULFILL ALL THESE 7-POINT AGENDA, F.G, PLEASE DOUBLE THEIR SALARIES. IF THEY CAN'T , F.G PLEASE REDUCE THEIR SALARIES BY 50% AND LET THE LAW OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY BRING YOU ANOTHER SET OF WORK FORCE . THEY ARE SHORT CHANGING YOU (POOR SERVICE)!

You poor, naive fellow. What law of demand and supply? Why do you think Universities and ASUU lobbied to move retirement age up to 70 yrs? Due to the incredibly silly and treasonous behaviour of the FG towards the Educational institutions in Nigeria, the best young brains have absolutely no desire to embrace a career in the University. The best graduating student of Engineering in my set had a First class with a GPA of 4.8 or so. He was given an automatic job in the Uni...he instead chose to become a cashier in Zenith Bank. You think they don't have families to feed?

Go to your University and look at the lecturers there. How many bright, young and disruptive lecturers do you see? Would YOU lecture?

You want to attract the best brains yet pay peanuts. That's laughable.

tatosh:

STUDENTS DESERVE THE BEST. THE 7-POINT AGENDA IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE AND ASUU DOES NOT NEED BILLIONS TO DO THE ABOVE, THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TOOLS FOR THESE WITHIN THE SYSTEM.

IF ASUU WANTS THEIR MEMBERS TO BE PAID LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD, THEN THEY SHOULD ALSO DEMAND OF THEIR MEMBERS TO WORK LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD.

ASUU, YOU CAN DO BETTER.

A massive chunk of your demands are not made mandatory overseas. Show me the personal blogs of Georgia Tech lecturers where they answer questions online. Show me where lecturers are not allowed to go on leave.

You want the ASUU members to work excellently, you want young lecturers to shun the temptation to sell handouts to make money yet you're not willing to consider their welfare. You want lecturers to embrace e-learning and modern lecturing habits yet a large chunk of Federal Unis still use blackboard and chalk, the computer labs are filled with dead and decaying computers, the FG cannot provide funds for University wide Wifi access, for example. The laboratories are dead. How many working Lathe machines does your University have?

So many words, so much intellectual laziness.

^^^ Are you okay?

tatosh: ^^^ Are you okay?

It's okay. You don't have to fret because I'm smarter than you are.