Many of the Tertiary institutions in Oyo state lack teaching staff to cater for the number of students they have in their school, which in turn affects the students.

Our survey to the tertiary institutions in Oyo state took us to the Polytechnic lbadan and Eruwa Polytechnic. The rate at which students surfer from lack of academic staff is inimical to the success of education in Oyo State.

Our correspondence confirmed 5 faculties in the Polytechnic lbadan with about 30 departments of study.

Faculty of Environmental Science was having the highest number of department and the rate at which students are suffering not because of ineffective teaching environment but lack of manpower in the area of staff number.

The priority of Oyo state government is education and it seems government care less about improving the academic staff by employing capable hands to fill the vacuum of retirees.

The number of teaching and non teaching staff that retired in the last 24 months has reached over 200 and government failed to feel the vacuum.

Is this how to run a quality education in the state?

We equally interviewed some students where they expressed their dissatisfaction about the way in which the state government failed to increase the number of staff as many of the staff handles more than three courses which usually affect their delivery.

In the faculty of engineering, students complained bitterly about the depth of manpower which has hindered the effective learning delivery.

In all Tertiary institutions in Oyo state the government shunned the way of improving academic learning due to lack of proper gauge and funding of tertiary institutions.

Dissecting the 2020 budget passed by the Oyo state house of assembly, it was noted in there the priority placed on education which the government failed to let it touch the tertiary institutions in Oyo state deeply.

More need to be done in the area of staffing. As it is now , the center can not be held together. Insufficiency in the area of staff is affecting the tertiary institutions and government closed their eyes to that.
Staff recruitment required to meet the current education demand. The population of students keep increasing but number of working staff is reducing due to number of aged and retired staff.

Adigun Odunayo a professor, said, tertiary institutions around the state are facing a shortage of staff and problem is more severe. Because of this shortage, the students are suffering and many of them are dropping out of schools. The government is not able to carry out the recruitment exercise to fill the vacuum left by the retired staff and increase in the number of students.


Lecturers play very important role in the growth of higher education systems and are to some extent responsible for the social behavior in their classrooms. Good lecturers lend a hand in making students be in high spirits at school and that explains why regulatory bodies pay great attention to employee quality, preparatory to the accreditation of any given academic programme or school.


We observed that the institutions were lagging behind their peers in the country in terms of staffing.

It was reliably gathered that most of the institutions now depend largely on part-time and casual staff, a situation frowned at by various supervisory bodies and a contravention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) law. “If the situation of under-staffing is not addressed urgently, the institutions might be heading for total collapse.

“So, all the institutions in the state are facing similar issue; all have lost staff due to retirement, disengagement or death and without replacement.” We also confirmed that the institutions have employed the services of ad hoc staff to fill some of the vacancies.

As Oyo state declared education as her priority, the state government still care less on the staffing issue in Polytechnics and colleges which serves as fulcrum of good education and development for the state and country at large.