A recent panel report of the National Universities Commission (NUC) has discovered a Nigerian University operating with a part-time Vice Chancellor, reports thegazelleznews.com.
Another was also discovered to be operating with part-time Deans.
The two private universities discovered in such operation are: Khadijah University, Majia, Jigawa State whose Vice Chancellor is a visiting lecturer; and Ave Maria University, Pyanko, Nasarawa State where one of the Deans was not only a visiting lecturer but only visits the University thrice a month.
For sometime, the NUC has been observing the universities and their non-adherence to rules which prompted the setting up of the committee by the Commission’s Executive Secretary, Professor Abubakar Rasheed.
While submitting its report, the committee found out that the two universities were “grossly understaffed as well as over dependence on visiting lecturers”.
Apart from this, the committee also observed lots of issues in both institutions, “ranging from observed infractions about their governance and the management being meddlesome”.
According to the Committee’s report, “to worsen the situation, most of the lecturers of the Universities, being part-timers, have their work affected negatively. Therefore, most of the institutions’ programmes had not gone through Resource Verifications, which portends great danger and a real cause for concern”.
The report, however, admitted that the Proprietor of Khadijah University had invested a lot on structures while Ave Maria has a lot of potential with the level of work done so far.
