The National Universities Commission (NUC)
has charged Nigerian universities to come up
with innovative research products, and
publications that will impart positively on the
lives of ordinary Nigerians and develop the
nation’s economy.
This was made known by the Executive
Secretary of the NUC while delivering a paper
on Nigerian universities, “Thinking outside the
box to embrace innovative and positive
change”, at the University of Benin main
auditorium, in Benin City the Edo State
capital.
Represented by the Director Research and
Innovation of the NUC, Dr Sulaiman Yusuf said
the current administration of the commission
has decided to be flexible to help innovative
change in universities curriculum, so as to
produce knowledgeable graduates.
“Are Nigerian universities poised to break
substantially away from the tried and tested
procedures, methodologies and traditional
ways of doing things which had produced
results in the past but which now appear
doubtful efficacy.
“Our research must be need driven, we must
scan our environment to see what problems
exist that need urgent solutions, what
industries are preponderant in our areas that
will require some high level cerebral thinking
from the university so that the business will
move better”.
The Vice Chancellor, Medical University Ondo
State Prof Friday Okonofua noted that “It is
not funding that is really the issue, its vision,
being able to come up with new innovations in
terms of research, service delivery and
teaching. Those are the things that make for
internationalisation of universities”.
The Director General Nigeria Institute For
Education Planning and Admin. Prof Lilian
Salami said “I think they have tried as much
as possible, to proffer some solutions so that
we can begin to look at our education from a
different angle and not where it is today”.
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