Somewhere in a Nigerian University, a Lecturer is still teaching with his 1980s note as resource material. Some of the examples he/she uses still has inches and feet. The change in measuring system, the new SI unit, the advancement in technology is not his/her boarder.

Somewhere in Nigeria, a University is still graduating Computer Science Students with no knowledge of Python, R, C++ or MATLAB. Visual Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN are still the only programming languages taught. No change to what is in vogue. No following of new Technologies. Just the normal languages of the early 90s.

Somewhere in our Exams and Records Unit, the CGPA computing officers are still using market Calculators to compute CGPA. They are still storing up documents in hard copy files. The Computer in that office is not for result computation. No, the Officer doesn't even know how to open Ms Excel. Offer to teach them basic computing with Excel or design a template, they look at you as though you are speaking Latin.

The email on the university portal is for fancy. Nobody respond to the mails forwarded there. Infact the Officer in charge of responding to the mails doesn't even know how to open the mailbox of the institution portal.

Somewhere in some of our Universities, some Academics know nothing about what is in vogue in their fields of study. They do not even care to find out new knowledge. This AI boom is still no news on their stereo. They are on a no reverse speedboat to never take in anything new to your head.

Questionnaires designed on Google form or Microsoft forms are rejected by Graduate School supervisors. You must print it on A4 paper, photocopy 1000 copies and share manually to responders.

Or when last did you see a University Vacancy Application with an online portal to apply? You must submit 10 hard copies of your credentials to the Registrar.

Canva slide presentation is rejected. It must be done on PowerPoint.

Zoom Thesis defence is not possible. You must be present with 20 copies of your Thesis.

Assignment cannot be submitted via mail. You must write it out and submit to the Lecturer in person.

Payment cannot be automated. You must queue at designated Banks, manually fill the Teller, not the modern Teller oh. That one that has 3 copies. Take the yellow copy to the Bursary. Change to receipt, photocopy 5 copies and share around. Don't even try paying by transfer, that money don go.

At this level, can we conclude Nigeria Universities are adverse to Technological advancement? If yes, then we are in some very serious issues in our hands.

thesicilian:
A university lecturer is not supposed to be dictating notes to students as if it's a secondary school. The ideal thing to do is come to class and explain the principles and concepts, let the students go and read wide and research. Dictating notes most often limits the students, as many of them tend to focus on the notes and not read further.

WantsandMore:
True but when half of the students passed through miracle centers, they make the job of the lecturer harder than necessary

WantsandMore:
True but when half of the students passed through miracle centers, they make the job of the lecturer harder than necessary

thesicilian:
A university lecturer is not supposed to be dictating notes to students as if it's a secondary school. The ideal thing to do is come to class and explain the principles and concepts, let the students go and read wide and research. Dictating notes most often limits the students, as many of them tend to focus on the notes and not read further.

youngsahito:
so are you telling us that lecturers don't dictate note to students abroad? Let's be objective on our talk sometimes.

thesicilian:
A university lecturer is not supposed to be dictating notes to students as if it's a secondary school. The ideal thing to do is come to class and explain the principles and concepts, let the students go and read wide and research. Dictating notes most often limits the students, as many of them tend to focus on the notes and not read further.

Fkj202004:
It's a shame.

I know of a university, National Open University of Nigeria that has gone so digital that 95% of activities in the university are done online including lectures and assignments.

All academic results are posted on a specially designed website. Other universities should emulate going digital

Kaa4:
These are the derisive statements made against lecturers and university education system in Nigeria. They are fantasies that someone somewhere thinks are are operative. While this story telling is not uncommon, I am sure that no lecturer that joined in 1980 is still teaching today

i am also sure that no lecturer is teaching with 1980 notes because they complexly off the shelf

I am also sure that many of the lecturers teaching today, have the oldest of them joining the system in he late 1990s.

So away with the fallacies and do proper current research

thesicilian:

Is "abroad" a yardstick for what is ideal or not?
Did I mention abroad?
Can't you think for yourself?

techgen:
Majority of students will fail…I would suggest they summarize concepts…I’m currently doing my masters abroad…they teach you in a way that you just need to understand concepts, if not you’ll be surprised at the questions during exam…La cram La pour won’t save you.

Again, our educational system carries too much unit load…how do you expect a student to make research on 9 courses per semester and perform so well.

Nigeria educational system needs revision.

Kaa4:
These are the derisive statements made against lecturers and university education system in Nigeria. They are fantasies that someone somewhere thinks are are operative. While this story telling is not uncommon, I am sure that no lecturer that joined in 1980 is still teaching today

i am also sure that no lecturer is teaching with 1980 notes because they complexly off the shelf

I am also sure that many of the lecturers teaching today, have the oldest of them joining the system in he late 1990s.

So away with the fallacies and do proper current research

VeeVeeMyLuv:

There's nothing wrong in lecturers still teaching from 1980s textbooks

Don't mind the educated illiterates
If Nigerians don't know, it is these same textbooks that Elon Musk, Bill Gates and co used to build the technologies such as Tesla, apple, Google that we are enjoying today

techgen:
The loop hole in online systems is enormous…student tends to outsource their school load out.

And again, one of the main purpose of schooling is to socialize, as it’s part of learning…online classes won’t give you that leverage:

thesicilian:

True, majority will fail.
And true again, we do too much here. A lot of the courses we study we don't eventually use them. At the university level one should be strictly focusing on what's necessary.

Inspirer1:

I guess this is what you still have now.
They remained stuck with their past and didn't update their knowledge and softwares according to you.