OpEd: ASUU President Professor Ogunyemi’s Fallacious Verdict On Virtual Learning By Olabisi Deji-Folutile | Sahara Reporters Ordinary primary and secondary school teachers in this country are already doing this with ease in spite of all the... READ MORE:
Sometimes, when you think you have heard the worst about what is going on in Nigeria; that is just the beginning of contending with the unimaginable. One time, you hear the President’s wife telling the nation that she doesn’t know the whereabouts of her security aides, at another time; you read news report of shootings in the seat of power.
I’ve tried in vain to understand the exact point that the ASUU president is trying to make here. I also don’t think that the challenges confronting Nigeria in the area of virtual learning are so unconquerable to warrant such a definite verdict from the leader of Nigeria’s academic body.
Imagine ASUU still complaining of migrating online when Cambridge University has moved all “face-to-face lectures” for the full 2020-21 academic session online. The other time ASUU faulted the virtual matriculation by the University of Osun, describing it as a charade. The union was convinced that the ceremony was a ploy to shut out poor students from accessing teaching and learning interaction. But these students have yet to complain.
Universities are established to create solutions to societal problems. It is abnormal for the academic community that should have been at the forefront of providing solutions to the nation’s problems to publicly declare that a problem cannot be solved. Ordinarily, challenges ought to bring the best out of the lecturers. After all, the worth of managers is in their ability to manage crisis. We can no longer be talking about data cost as if it is an insurmountable issue.
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