The Chancellor of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Shehu Chindo Yamusa III has disclosed that about 80 percent of our university lecturers are quacks, lacking the pedagogic skills and methods needed in the classroom.
The Chancellor who was speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting in Keffi, said those already in the system and have no training or qualification in education should go back to classroom in order to become more productive.
“It is evident that, 80 percent of lecturers are not professionals, but only those in the faculty of education and few ones that have PGDE in other Faculties are qualify to teach,” he said.
He added that before now most universities insisted that a lecturer should have a certificate in education before such a lecturer was accepted into the system, and where a lecturer had no certificate in education, he/she would be recommended to faculty of education for one or two years’ programme, after which he/she would be allowed into the classroom.
Yamusa III who was a university lecturer before ascending his ancestral throne as Emir of Keffi, condemned the managements of Nigeria universities for keeping inexperienced people in the system, stressing that it is sheer lack of adherence to due process.
