Why Are The Majority of Professors in Nigeria Less Creative?
Getting to the level of being a Professor, a Ph.D. degree holder, is not a walk in the park. The journey starts from parents who are educated and are willing to see their kids achieve a topmost level of degree acquisition.
The parent of a would-be professor would have followed up their dream by setting up a future plan of how their child would be schooled especially from elementary level to the graduate level of the university education as it is the case here in Nigeria and some other countries.
Then a bachelorette can continue to push further to acquire a Masters degree and finally a Ph.D. The postgraduate learning courses that eventually produces a professor are usually focused majorly on research and deeper studies.
Ph.D. degrees holders are expected to use their enormous knowledge to proffer solutions to problems bordering the area of their studies which relate to the challenges the society face.
The dissertation and a major research project that qualifies a student of high learning to become a professor are well-detailed research problems and solutions which the student works on.
That simply means if the student does not work hard to proffer solution to the problem s/he works on, the individual would not be qualified to a Ph.D. holder. And even if the student's work is a problem-solving dissertation, the student is obliged to develop further and to create more ideas that solve even more problems.
But Nigeria's problems seem to be beyond the capabilities of our professors to solve. Is it that they are given the degree without merit?
Why do we employ the services of an expert from other countries to run many of our establishments?
Can Nigeria ever be proud of churning out professors that develop solutions to our numerous problems?
Be part of the ideological change that would see that the state of education in Nigeria is restructuring of the education system so that every Nigerian child would be given high standard education. The link below is a disturbing revelation by Professor Adewale Solarin, Director, National Mathematical Centre, NMC, Abuja, in NATION, February 21, 2015, on the intellectual status on many so-called lecturers and professors, https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/how-good-are-nigerian-university-lecturers/
In another article from https://www.legit.ng/1104678-problems-education-nigeria-solutions.html, the writer, Johnson Olawale described some of the root causes of the decadence of our educational institutions. Of course among which are the poorly trained teachers who are apparently less creative and are incapable of providing effective education to students.
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