Rekindling hope for our varsities
RECENT deliberations by stakeholders in the education sector offer a bright hope that our ailing universities - if the findings from the brain-storming session are well harnessed and put into use - could be inching to the desired word-class status. This opportunity, which I feel is worth sharing, beckoned at the just-concluded national retreat, jointly organised by the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission for the newly-inaugurated governing councils of Nigerian federal universities, held recently at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja. The main thrust of the two-day programme was to equip participants with the requisite principles of university governance with a view to making the new council members responsive to the expectations of government and critical stakeholders in implementing public policies. Speaking at the occasion, the Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Julius Okojie said the retreat was carefully packaged for the Council members - as employers ...