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Professor Olu Obafemi is astir yet to measurement retired of his vessel of truthful truth.
Another alternate mode of backing
Another alternate mode of backing universities with cautionary observances of implications and consequences is the proposition by Olabisi, I. Aina (2002) successful their paper, “Alternative Modes of Financing Higher Education successful Nigeria and the Implications for University Governance,” Aina examines the chronic problems of ‘underfunding and over-reliance connected authorities funds’.
Having identified the ‘profound effects’ of ‘inadequate backing of teaching and research’ which compel universities to embark connected income generating projects successful bid to root alternate funds, and proposes immoderate innovative strategies done which Nigerian universities tin root non-governmental funds and their deleterious ‘implications for the prime of teaching and research.’
Nonetheless, Universities are advised to defender against the imaginable commoditization of the assemblage perfect and strategy connected the pedestal of alternate fund-seeking due to the fact that the commercialized ventures the universities make are recovered to beryllium ‘fraught with problems of management’.
This is why, appropriately, organization argumentation and their implementation remainder solely connected the Governing Council which supervises activities of Management, including their money and concern generating activities, particularly with regards to prudency, fiscal absorption and accountability, specified that allocations tin beryllium much prudently managed.
On absorption of allocations, Sola Akinrinade, (November 2015) besides identifies and blames the endangering of the aboriginal of Nigeria connected ‘the precocious incidence of corruption successful the assemblage system’ which makes nonsense of disposable backing successful the assemblage strategy done injudicious utilisation of already scarse funds.
Meddlesome agencies
Furthermore, determination is request to cheque the travel of monies and resources that the Universities are entitled to, immoderate of which bash not get to their destinations arsenic released from source. There are leakages successful the strategy that painfully short- alteration higher acquisition institutions. Some of the reasons liable for this concern tin beryllium traced to irregular and unedifying practices successful the process earlier and aft these monies get to the higher acquisition institutions.
The undue interference of non-educational institutions, particularly the National Assembly with their self- indulgent, nebulous, exercises similar the mythic and sightless ‘oversight functions’ person deleterious effects connected the effectual absorption of funds meant for higher acquisition institutions.
If these NASS radical person discernible minds to cognize however their counterparts successful different lands, transportation on, they volition swoon, if determination is capable humor successful their veins for specified virtuous acts by others. Hear what an American Congressman said of the antagonistic interaction of precocious fees: ‘The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring assemblage costs and pupil indebtedness debts, and arsenic lawmakers, we indispensable find solutions to code affordability and flexibility successful higher acquisition (Elis Stefanik: (From Quote Master: htpps://www.quotemaster.org.edu)
This unwarranted interference has implications for autonomy and assets management. No (busy) bodies, extracurricular of the system, meant to beryllium supervised lone by the Governing Councils, should meddle successful the affairs of the universities, financially oregon otherwise. In a clip similar this, erstwhile Councils are said to beryllium dissolved, Vice-Chancellors indispensable beryllium wary of giddiness successful seeking Ministerial collusion oregon validation of enactment that corrode assemblage autonomy.
Conclusion
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished assemblage and comrades, my presumption successful this Lecture is simple. And you whitethorn person noticed that I person unconventionally embedded my observations and suggestions in-text. It is needlessly, repetitive and superfluous to restate them here, particularly present that I whitethorn person bored you stiff.
As I said before, licence maine to restate present that ‘there is nary short-cut to gathering a cognition nine successful a cognition economy’ Humongous sums wasted connected insane fripperies indispensable beryllium rechanneled to and invested successful universities and different tertiary institutions and the disbursement indispensable beryllium accountably executed successful the involvement of some authorities and our people. Chummer, F. and Hart, K (2003) instruct america tellingly that “In a knowledge-based agenda, backing of assemblage probe and assemblage acquisition mostly is an investment…”
First, determination is nary wholesome alternate to the Federal Government taking work of financing national institutions, particularly the nationalist universities due to the fact that of their centrality to nationalist development, the maturation of the nation’s macro and micro economy, the accumulation of caller knowledge, skilled manpower and antiauthoritarian citizenship upon which the nation’s civilisation depends.
Second, each federation successful the satellite clutches inviolably, to its universities, the academe and cognition houses, arsenic its warrant of maturation and development. And this presumption is invariable, whether it is the sciences, technologies and the Humanities.
Third, it is important truthful to proceed to impressment it connected the Federal Government the request to proceed to fulfill its law work to acquisition successful wide and higher acquisition successful particular. Every assemblage should get what it needs successful accordance with the budgets prepared and approved by its Councils. Funding should nary longer beryllium the ground for mediocre performances successful the universities; mediocre performances successful the domains of teaching, learning, probe and assemblage work successful the assemblage system.
To end, yet then, fto maine quote, pertinently from different caller Lecture I gave successful Lokoja [2023] connected the eventual import of the assemblage and its perfect for a nation;
While assemblage acquisition is simply a variant of the acquisition process, systems and societies trust connected it, for its quality to illustration caller paths. In charting caller paths, universities refine and specify our understandings, successful manners that perpetually springiness america caller beginnings. This is the hallmark of a nine successful transition, a strategy successful motion, wherever trends are regularly requiring adaptation.
The centrality of the assemblage successful the envisioning evolvement of nine is captured successful the apt connection of the precocious renowned economist and assemblage administrator, Professor Ojetunji Aboyade (1982) to which I referred earlier. He argued that a federation has the close to look up to its universities as;
The highest intellectual, aesthetic, ethical, taste and skills development” (and he) asserts that “the maturation of nations and the contented of people’s are truthful bound up with the flourishing of their universities” (such that) “the aboriginal quality of a nation’s improvement immoderate 2 decades distant is mirrored by the contiguous prime of its universities.
For immoderate authorities with a vision, taking work for backing the nation’s assemblage is simply a given, successful enlightened self-interest, requiring nary proselytizing.
Concluded.
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