Recently, reactions have trailed the number of first-class graduates produced at the convocation ceremony of one of the prominent private universities in the country. This is not the first time. A number of stakeholders who are not conversant with the workings of private universities have tagged the 12.28 per cent first class recorded by that private university as 'cheap grades.'
Recently, reactions have trailed the number of first-class graduates produced at the convocation ceremony of one of the prominent private universities in the country. This is not the first time. A number of stakeholders who are not conversant with the workings of private universities have tagged the 12.28 per cent first class recorded by that private university as “cheap grades.”
The lecturer-student ratio in most private universities is less than 1:30 for law, arts, administration, management, and social science courses. For the sciences, the lecturer-student ratio ranges between 1:10 and 1:15 compared to public universities where the ratios are much higher. Imagine a situation where a lecturer in a public university has to contend with about 850 students or more compared to their contemporaries in a private university that lectures a class of 50 or lesser students.
Lecturers in private universities are encouraged to be cordial with their students. Many of them have emotional intelligence in their mentoring, and are very interactive in their lectures compared to many public university lecturers who have sadistic tendencies to always deflate their students. It is in public universities that students experience utterances from lecturers like, “Nobody scores A in my course, only very brilliant students can score B.
In private universities, lecturers are encouraged to revise all they have taught for the semester before examination. Most lecturers in public universities will not revise because of their arrogance and presumption that students must not be pampered.
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