Zeinymira:


In the future......yea

Still a student?

lexiconkabir:

Still a student?

Hmmm.....no

sholay2011:
My 2 cents will be people who have the chance (via Class of Degree or money-wise) should try going abroad for Masters and other post graduate studies. There is an amount of exposure and ideology-shift one gets, especially if you go to the right school.

Because sometimes, to improve the system requires thinking outside the box and being stuck in the usual naija cycle of academics MAY not be the best option. Nonetheless, many of the lecturers that taught me in my undergraduate claimed to have gotten one degree or another abroad but their thinking is still the same , at least judging from the way they acted towards their students or treated the act of teaching itself. It is not about coming back to Nigeria with one funny accent.

I am currently doing my Masters abroad and though don't intend lecturing, it surprises me how someone will spend two years where I am and still think in the same way for Christ's sake: that teaching your students is doing them a favour whereas they paid school fees for crying out loud! That you must just write a research paper to quicken promotion whereas it advances nothing in your field of study! That your title (PhD / Prof) is more important than acquiring knowledge itself and effectively communicating it to students! That putting unnecessary fear in your students equals true respect (dear, ask what they say behind your back )!

If some future lecturers are in this thread, please, if you are not ready to stand out for a positive difference (because Nigerian education is at the verge of collapse if you don't know), just pray and work hard for an office job than destroy the innocent lives that may be
committed to your hands. Thank you.

Bia nwannem, you get sense! You just spoke undiluted truth. This is the gospel we have been preaching for a long while now. Imagine a country where graduate students are treated like high school students. A university where lecturers believe they are doing fee-paying students a favour by writing half-baked and ill-researched text and compelling them to buy! Where lecturers only write journal articles just to qualify for the next promotion and not necessarily to contribute to knowledge! Where many lecturers have never really practiced the courses they teach. In fact, I just tire jare!

Zeinymira:

Hmmm.....no

Oh! Perhaps NYSC at hand......(don't mind me i ask too much questions).

lexiconkabir:

Oh! Perhaps NYSC at hand......(don't mind me i ask too much questions).

Nah

Zeinymira:


Nah

Let me mute here before I'm tagged a police.

lexiconkabir:

Let me mute here before I'm tagged a police.

Lol

Gaara101:

How did you find time to read those stuff. Uniben has a very tight schedule, you know?

Lool.

I know, but it's just determination and self discipline.

It's not easy, but with God's Grace it'll be fine.

M a Masters (M.Ed) student in Test and Measurement. Eagerly looking forward to a lecturing job

Federal Polytechnic,Offa seek part-time lecturers. Here's the detail:

http://www.ngscholars.net/federal-polytechnic-offa-part-time-lecturing-jobs/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

Benjax:


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What!? Perhaps, you could be worse a lecturer if you dare pick up that career because of your outright show of insolence!

I will be almost perfect in teaching, if I decide today to lecture. My students will surely not end up like the aspiring "lecturer" you're blindly defending!

I will be almost perfect in teaching, if I decide today to lecture. My students will surely not end up like the aspiring "lecturer" you're blindly defending!
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The thing is that I don't want to talk about any of his short comings. What I'm interested in is the manner you picked up on him. Nobody is overly perfect...even you!

YemziAdez:


I'm a graduate of Animal and Environmental Biology

School: UNIBEN

Waiting for NYSC posting too.

Well I'm fortunate to be selected by a Dr. at the moment as a research assistant.

Since I've graduated (July, 2016), I've only spent a week with my parents in Lagos.

What gave me a little advantage over my peers is that I've narrowed down my research interests into two or more branches of researches viz. Insect Ecology, Insect toxicology, invasion biology and pest control.

In addition, I developed my research skills to a little extent by reading lots of scientific journals.


Kindly send me a pm if you need more information.

Warm regards.

Make the best use of this opportunity, your research experience would count for you if you intend to puruse graduate studies immediately after your NYSC.

iamclime:

The best comment I have read so far. Many of our courses are esoteric in nature. Many lecturers do not know jack about what they teach, apart from what they have read in the books. This is especially the case in the Management Sciences. Imagine an Accounting lecturer who has never worked in any accounting role in the industry or a Marketing lecturer who has never worked in Sales, Product Development, Marketing Communications or Marketing Research! It is so pathetic! God willing, I see in myself a seasoned academic in the nearest future, one who can bridge the gap between theory and practice. Marketing rocks!

I stand to be corrected. Even in first world countries, many of the academic have no real industry experience. Upon completion of PhD programmes, they get openings as a postdoc and then assistant professor. A Masters/Phd degree is proof of ability to research and your teaching skills are honed along the way through Teaching assistant-ships.

jeebz:


Make the best use of this opportunity, your research experience would count for you if you intend to puruse graduate studies immediately after your NYSC.

Okay Sir

Many thanks.

Warm regards

Sheikwonder:
Following....looking to be an economics professor, ceteris paribus, Deo volente.

However, I'm still an undergraduate at one of Nigeria's premier universities. To be honest and not that I'm trying to put down my lecturers, but some of them are not too sound and lack depth in key economic concepts. Of course I'm not stupid enough to voice it out publicly for fear of reprisal via biased marking of my scripts against my favor but this is our sad reality at the moment.

I would appreciate advice from anyone, especially someone in a similar field of study , on the pitfalls to avoid and one can go on to be a lecturer. Imparting knowledge like the o.p has been a passion of mine and I am convinced that education in Nigeria needs to be revolutionized, a complete overhaul of the system, similar to what obtains in Nordic countries like Finland.

That's it, advice and constructive criticism is very much appreciated.

yea,ceteris paribus is the phrase. I am also an Economics undergrad. In Oau. I used to have passion for lecturing but it's gradually dying.

Benjax:
You know what? I am a teenager currently applying for admission into higher institution. I'd love to be a lecturer too. My peers ask me to go and read Music because I love it (though I am a science student) but I'm afraid of another career in Music should I be unfortunate to miss my goal of being an academic. Now,I'm opting for Optometry in UNIBEN.

Please do you think I'm getting it right?

go for what you love and have passion for and the sky will be your starting point. Don.tensiev to keep track of time too. The truth is age is not on anyon's side.

Lexmane:

yea,ceteris paribus is the phrase. I am also an Economics undergrad. In Oau. I used to have passion for lecturing but it's gradually dying.

What changed? Can you enlighten us as to why your passion for lecturing is dying?

Sheikwonder:


What changed? Can you enlighten us as to why your passion for lecturing is dying?

well,the quest for money top the myriad of reasons i have. As a result, I no longer read like before as i engaged in business(repair and sale of phones and laptop on campus). And because i no longer read like before, i started getting undesirable grades. And I am sure you know that is not an attribute of a good lecturer. .

Lexmane:

well,the quest for money top the myriad of reasons i have. As a result, I no longer read like before as i engaged in business(repair and sale of phones and laptop on campus). And because i no longer read like before, i started getting undesirable grades. And I am sure you know that is not an attribute of a good lecturer. .

Hmmm, I understand the need to 'hustle' to make ends means. Yet as an economist you must be well acquainted with the 'scale/table of preference'. If you hustle to the detriment of your studies you may be sad with the aftermath. I think you need to strike a balance and find out what it is you want. You can actually manage to do both and still succeed but it would take extra grit and gumption from you. Are you up for that? Besides, I know that OAU is not a smiling school, they will gladly help you fail if you don't wake up. Sort out your priorities and work out your personal goals, you'd be surprised at what you can achieve when you plan.

If truly you have a passion to teach then you won't be weighed down. Pick up yourself and start again. I am rooting for you!



All the best!

Sheikwonder:


Hmmm, I understand the need to 'hustle' to make ends means. Yet as an economist you must be well acquainted with the 'scale/table of preference'. If you hustle to the detriment of your studies you may be sad with the aftermath. I think you need to strike a balance and find out what it is you want. You can actually manage to do both and still succeed but it would take extra grit and gumption from you. Are you up for that? Besides, I know that OAU is not a smiling school, they will gladly help you fail if you don't wake up. Sort out your priorities and work out your personal goals, you'd be surprised at what you can achieve when you plan.

If truly you have a passion to teach then you won't be weighed down. Pick up yourself and start again. I am rooting for you!



All the best!

thanks boss. But how come you know i school in OAU.

I have nurtured an ambition to publish research paper in a journal and present paper at conferences on Policy and development in Nigeria before i graduate. And later become a scholar, that will be famous at the world stage, in my profession. I'm aware of the myriad tasks to undergo, and discipline to sacrifice a lot of pleasure for my dream.

But, my problem is the lack of direction despite the presence of mission. There is mission, but I'm ignorant of the perfect way to achieve it. I need advise and mentor. I will start 200 level next year, and my course is Political Science.

Scholars in the house, please help me. I will like to pursue Public Policy or Political Economy to PhD level, and my area of specialization will base on International economic policy, Electoral System law/ policy, and Social Welfare program policy in third world countries etc. Thank you.
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YemziAdezi

I don't see those that don't have educational qualifications as a lecturer. I see them as an interlopers who have come to take what rightly belong to us. Let me put it clear. You're not a lecturer or a teacher if you don't have any of these qualifications: NCE, B.Ed, and M.Ed. Those with PGD can be managed but on the ground that the right teachers have been employed.

Nwanna2588:
I don't see those that don't have educational qualifications as a lecturer. I see them as an interlopers who have come to take what rightly belong to us. Let me put it clear. You're not a lecturer or a teacher if you don't have any of these qualifications: NCE, B.Ed, and M.Ed. Those with PGD can be managed but on the ground that the right teachers have been employed.

Lecturing is NOT the same thing as teaching. Teaching qualifications like NCE, B.Ed, M.Ed, PGDE, etc, are basically for Secondary School Teachers and not University Lecturers. While the degrees may make a lecturer deliver more professionally, they are certainly not a requisite for lecturing. Some lecturers without any background in education even lecture far better than those who have.

In the final analysis, a background in Education is NOT needed to lecture ANYWHERE in the world. What is needed is a Masters/Doctorate degree. That is the status quo. Even in the Faculty of Education, you need a M.Ed/Ph.D/Ed.D/etc, to lecture. A B.Ed. won't do you any good or give you a upper hand except in Secondary Schools and Colleges of Education.

fratermathy:


Lecturing is NOT the same thing as teaching. Teaching qualifications like NCE, B.Ed, M.Ed, PGDE, etc, are basically for Secondary School Teachers and not University Lecturers. While the degrees may make a lecturer deliver more professionally, they are certainly not a requisite for lecturing. Some lecturers without any background in education even lecture far better than those who have.

In the final analysis, a background in Education is NOT needed to lecture ANYWHERE in the world. What is needed is a Masters/Doctorate degree. That is the status quo. Even in the Faculty of Education, you need a M.Ed/Ph.D/Ed.D/etc, to lecture. A B.Ed. won't do you any good or give you a upper hand except in Secondary Schools and Colleges of Education.

Don't forget that those without the qualifications I mentioned are not licenced by TRCN until they acquire PGDE. So they are dabblers in the profession.

Nwanna2588:


Don't forget that those without the qualifications I mentioned are not licenced by TRCN until they acquire PGDE. So they are dabblers in the profession.

I think you are getting it twisted, lecturing and teaching are entirely different and both are regulated by different agencies. The unions are also different. Frathermathy has laid it bare and there is no room for gainsaying or contention. Lecturing requires BSc/MSc/Phd while teaching requires B.Ed/M.Ed/PGDE.

Which body then is the professional body for them? Is it not TRCN?

Nwanna2588:
Which body then is the professional body for them? Is it not TRCN?

ASUU is the only recognised group for University lecturers and it is even not a professional body. It's more like a trade union. TRCN is for secondary school teachers and lecturers at the colleges of education. It has nothing to do with University lecturers. Even lecturers in the Faculty of Education are not obligated to be registered with TRCN.

fratermathy:


ASUU is the only recognised group for University lecturers and it is even not a professional body. It's more like a trade union. TRCN is for secondary school teachers and lecturers at the colleges of education. It has nothing to do with University lecturers. Even lecturers in the Faculty of Education are not obligated to be registered with TRCN.

No lecturers in the faculty of education are obligated to be registered.

Nwanna2588:

No lecturers in the faculty of education are obligated to be registered.

I may believe that since it's their profession.

Educative, at least better than all other hmmnn, just saying ooo

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