Don suggests appointment of long serving persons to head tertiary schools
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Competence
By Stellamaris Ashinze
Lagos, Aug. 4, 2017 (NAN) An educationist, Dr Victor Akinola, has suggested that competent and experienced administrators should be appointed to head tertiary schools to enhance development of those institutions.
Akinola, a former National Public Relation Officer, Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), made the suggestion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
He said that government should always give consideration to persons who had stayed long in a particular institution for appointment as vice chancellor, rector or provost to ensure efficient administration of the institution.
The unionist said such officer would have acquired relevant cognate experience over the years to run the institution efficiently.
Akinola, who is also a lecturer at the department of Curriculum and Instruction Technology, Faculty of Education, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Lagos, said the wrong choice of chief executives had always retarded the progress of institutions.
He gave the instance of the College of Education at Ijanikin, where Lagos State Government was contemplating bringing somebody from the State University (LASU), a situation he described as improper.
“Bringing someone from the university environment, because he has a doctorate degree, but not familiar with the terrain in the college of education, may bring a set back to the college,” Akinola told NAN.
According to him, there are many competent educationists without a doctorate degree in the college of education system that can administer such college. (NAN)
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Edited by Abdulfatah Babatunde