ASUP poly lecturers suspend 15-day-old strike
Polytechnic lecturers have suspended a nationwide strike they started on November 13 over failure of government to meet their demands.
Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) told a press conference in Bauchi that the decision to suspend the strike came at the group’s 14 conference in Bauchi after it reached an agreement and signed a memorandum of settlement and action.
The union has previously met with officials and ministries of education and labour, alongside the National Salaries and Wages Commission, Budget office of the federation, office of Head of Civil service and office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
“While we are not unaware of the government over the years to willfully renege on agreements of this nature with labour unions including ours, it is the considered view of our union that the contents of this MoS be given a chance of implementation particularly as there is a mechanism for monitoring and evaluation embedded in the MoS.
Source: DailyTrust
Education Quality: The hard choices we cannot sidestep – Okebukola
Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Chairman of Council, Crawford University and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Caleb University, Professor Peter Okebukola has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari on the need for quality teachers, adding that to reconstruct the shattered education mirror, there are hard choices we cannot sidestep.
Okebukola, while delivering convocation lecture on Reconstructing the Shattered Education Mirror: Hard Choices We Cannot Sidestep at the McPherson University said: ‘’Between 1965 and 1970, Nigeria contributed the highest in Africa to the international literature in science, engineering, medicine, social sciences and arts.’’ He posited that two major factors conspired to trigger off what is now regarded as the tipping point for poor quality. The first, he noted was the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which brought in its wake, the devaluation of the naira, adding: “More or less overnight, the money available to educational institutions especially universities depreciated by about 200%.”
Source : Vanguard
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