How to tackle brain drain in education sector, by don

To combat the encephalon drain successful Nigeria’s acquisition sector, Rector of Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara, Prof Emmanuel Ufuophu-Biri, has canvassed competitory incentives to clasp section lecturers.

According to the Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism, offering charismatic packages to lecturers and accrued backing of the assemblage would not lone promote Nigerian lecturers to enactment backmost but besides trim emigration.

In an interrogation with The Guardian, the student identified mediocre backing and remunerations arsenic immoderate of the factors encouraging encephalon drain successful the sector. While acknowledging that menace is simply a cosmopolitan trend, Ufuophu-Biri emphasised that it becomes a interest erstwhile a country’s astir skilled individuals are enticed to permission for amended prospects elsewhere.

He said: “When you permission your colony to your authorities capital, you are looking for greener pastures. When you permission your authorities for Abuja, you are looking for greener pastures.

“Japa is a planetary thing. But it becomes unsafe erstwhile your champion hands statesman to spell due to the fact that you cannot fulfill them.”

When determination were truthful galore achromatic radical teaching successful our primary, secondary and universities, were Nigerian lecturers moving distant the mode they are moving close now? In 2009 to 2010 erstwhile the Nigerian professor’s wage was astir $3,500 to $4,000, was helium moving away? So, if helium has an connection of times 5 of his wage extracurricular this country, volition you blasted him for going?

“If you spell to South Africa close now, you volition spot a batch of deans and heads of departments are Nigerians and Zimbabweans. So, this contented of Japa doesn’t travel to play. If your state offers what is good, it volition pull others to you. We person the lipid assemblage here. You person the achromatic guys coming due to the fact that they gain truthful overmuch from it. If you marque the education, and aesculapian sectors attractive, they volition besides come. It’s a unit of gravity. When radical get a amended offer, they spell there. So galore Nigerian lecturers are getting amended offers hence they are going there. If you consciousness it is bad, springiness a bully connection and fto others besides travel to you. We person the precise champion of brains successful Nigeria. But for me, nobody’s navel is tied to a peculiar country. You spell to wherever you deliberation is champion for you.”

While inaugurating the governing councils of national tertiary institutions past month, Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, had said the sector, not the aesculapian profession, had suffered the astir from encephalon drain successful the country.