The
National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is to employ 50 PhD academic staff
this year with a view to strengthening its services, Vice Chancellor of the
institution, Professor Abdallah Uba Adamu has
said.
Professor
Adamu told Daily Trust exclusively in Kano today, that the new employees
include professors, doctors senior lecturers and lecturer one but all of them
with PhD degrees, insisting that the university will no longer employ any
academic staff who does not have a PhD certificate.
He
said: “The reason is that NOUN is not a conventional university with classrooms
where you can employ a graduate to teach as an assistant lecturer. Rather it is
an institution where we communicate with our students through an Open Distance
Learning (ODL) method.
We
have to write the studies materials and writing studies materials requires
expertise; somebody who is good in research, investigation and who is good in
writing reports. It is therefore critical for us to have people who are
excellent in conducting research and writing reports and we feel hose with PhD
are already poised to do that.”
Professor
Adamu added that 83 academic staff of the university, are currently outside the
country studying for their PhDs and that their programmes are massively drawing
huge resources from the university.
“So
instead of spending so much money in training staff, we will rather employ
readymade PhD holders so that we can create a stronger structure with less
money” he said.
He
also said parts of his plans for this year, is to launch the institution’s its
new integrated website in January and streamline its 78 studies centers across
the country.
He
lamented that the centers have one problem or the other; some of them physical
and others deals with human being, saying the institution would come up with a
strong and integrated approach that will ensure provision of better services to
its clients.
“So,
our hope this year is that our studies centers would be more empowered and more
strengthen in order to operate at their full capacity so that we can admit more
students into this particular
university,”
he concluded.
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