Primary Concern
A lecturer’s primary concerns are teaching, doing research, and engaging community service. As a matter of fact, his essence and career progression are built around them. And that is exactly what universities and other tertiary institutions exist for.
Ability & Willingness to Learn
Learners are taught and mentored by lecturers in institutions of higher learning. For a successful learning exercise, especially in the experiential learning domain, the learner must possess the ability and willingness to learn. This is where concepts like ‘learning disability (LD)’ and ‘intelligent quotient (IQ)’ come in. Jumping the experiences and mounding of a step in an academic ladder also poses challenges in later attempts at learning.
Dyslexic learners or persons with learning disabilities may not be able to learn alongside rather normal learners successfully. An individual’s ability to learn can be tested and is reflected in academic capabilities. Similarly, a learner’s willingness to study is exemplified in his study habits, class, and related activity attendances and participation, etc. Well set and moderated public examinations devoid of popular machinations are a good measure of an individual’s willingness or ability to learn.
Admission Process
Students are admitted into a school with little or no lecturers’ involvement. IQs are not tested routinely in Nigeria. Varying forms of learning disability are glossed over by the various examination manipulative skills that have become a regrettable, part of our society. Even, the admission process is sometimes bedeviled by the so-called ‘Federal Character’ and the concept of ‘Educationally Less Developed States (ELDS)’. I read an amazing analysis the other day. My state considers an Elementary (primary) School candidate who sits for the High (secondary) School entrance examination as eligible if he or she scores an average of 61 out of the 100 available marks. A state in the country considers a female candidate eligible for the same placement if she scores 7 out of 100 available marks!
The lecturer’s dilemma
Dyslexic, playful, dexterous, mediocre, very dull Federal Character or ELDS candidates, name them, all end up in schools. The lecturer bears the brunt of the whole corrupt or ill-assessed system. He stands to teach. He pours out his mind to students who sit at their desks looking blankly at him – either not understanding or never able to understand him. He teaches until he almost collapses. He assesses and a certain percentage fails his course. School authorities think he doesn’t teach well. Students think he is a wicked soul – a sadist who enjoys his students’ failure. Nobody factors in the capacity of the student to learn. Nobody considers that the learner may have had a faulty foundation. Only a few consider that some students prefer reveling, or just lazing about, to the religious study of their books or learning materials.
The teacher changes his method of delivery over and over again. The result is still the same. He feels lonely. School authorities and his students are ‘against’ him. Nobody defends him. He tries to let people understand him; but who cares. So he does his things his way and dares everyone to do their worst. The agony of being a lecturer!
For sure
The learning problem is a fundamental one. Until we treat it as such. The end to our academic menace is not yet at sight.
You are on point my man and friend. Kudos
The style of Education in Nigeria is not modeled to build intellectual capacities in work dexterity and mental reasoning.
The system gives room for the quest of certificate against knowledge and skill…
Today, it is seen as a sin when a lecturer fails dull/lazy students for bad performance than when a when a lecturer gives an exellent passes to lazy students for poor performance…
You rightly said it ”When good lecturers come dull students make his or her efforts fruitless” Also, bad lectures make worse the mental and intellectual ability of the students…
A dull student can actually become brilliant in the class of a good(passionate) lecturer who persists and do not give up on them, (empathy)
Every student must not be compelled to pass theories… Mental abilities of the students should be analyses and grouped accordingly a for different teaching techniques. Remember, some learn by visual, some learn by audio and some others learn by doing. Undoubtedly, some exceptionally good learn any how.
So, when a student does well practically, teach him or her the theories through practicals… I remember Ben Carson’s story – a dullard tuned genus.
Value should be placed on the psychology of every student. Counseling is very vital to help some students discover or determine and develop their skills and talent.
Today we see musicians in medical college. Painters/Artists studying mathematics and all the rest. We see some students doing good in a particular course but bad in some others… When such students are discovered, counselors can be their guide. They can be given reorientation.
The government bears bulk of the blame. The government has refused to set a workable a sstem. No reward for excellence encourages student to channel their energy to activities like Pageantry, etc and sort their ways in the class when they suceed, the school and lecturers even cel3brate them and honour them.
In Nigeria we say we learn from the western world – our colonial masters but we refuse to copy their systems too.
The government do not encourage excellence.
Exam bodies like jamb play with the system. Admission processes manipulated. Certificates not verified to match brain capacity. Job manipulated and hard to get. Scholarship opportunities are only made available to the same people with manipulated results. Why not make it open to all and set your standard question, (you will be surprised that many bad certified candidates will do well)…
Everything is wrong and needs overhauling.
On the Agony of Lecturers written by Ass. Prof VE Adamu.
I Say:
The style of Education in Nigeria is not modelled to build intellectual capacities in dexterity of work and mental reasoning.
The system gives room for the quest of certificate against knowledge and skill…
Today, it is seen as a sin when a lecturer fails dull/lazy students for bad performance than when a when a lecturer gives an excellent passes to lazy students for poor performance…
You rightly said it ”When good lecturers come dull students make his or her efforts fruitless” Also, bad lectures make worse the mental and intellectual ability of the students…
A dull student can actually become brilliant in the class of a good(passionate) lecturer who persists and do not give up on them, (empathy)
Every student must not be compelled to pass theories… Mental abilities of the students should be analyses and grouped accordingly a for different teaching techniques. Remember, some learn by visual, some learn by audio and some others learn by doing. Undoubtedly, some exceptionally good learn any how.
So, when a student does well practically, teach him or her the theories through practicals… I remember Ben Carson’s story – a dullard turned genus.
Value should be placed on the psychology of every student. Counseling is very vital to help some students discover or determine and develop their skills and talent.
Today we see musicians in medical college. Painters/Artists studying mathematics and all the rest. We see some students doing good in a particular course but bad in some others… When such students are discovered, counselors can be their guide. They can be given reorientation.
The government bears bulk of the blame. The government has refused to set a workable a system. No reward for excellence encourages student to channel their energy to activities like Pageantry, etc and sort their ways in the class when they succeed, the school and lecturers even celebrate them and honour them.
In Nigeria we say we learn from the western world – our colonial masters but we refuse to copy their systems too.
The government do not encourage excellence.
Exam bodies like jamb play with the system. Admission processes manipulated. Certificates not verified to match brain capacity. Job manipulated and hard to get. Scholarship opportunities are only made available to the same people with manipulated results. Why not make it open to all and set your standard question, (you will be surprised that many bad certified candidates will do well)…
Everything is wrong and needs overhauling.
Resilience really pays . Hard work always is rewarding.
Get values for a living to be relevant or else, nobody will have time to listen to you in today’s Nigeria.
There are many organizations that look out for brain and not certificate. They ask you to answer critical questions as an essay. If you are different from the person described on paper as certificate, you will be identified and rewarded soon.
This is just the truth….,…nothing but the whole truth as long as “giant of Africa’s” education is concerned….it is well…
Thank you for this piece, definitely I am aligned to your view but unfortunately the end is not in sight. The majority will always have their way but let the minority not keep quiet rather voice their opinion and let posterity be the judge. You captured it all, the govt policies and undue interference in admissions remains the bane of our educational sector. The end is not yet in sight 🤷🤷
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