A Professor of Educational Management, Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Olusola Aina, has admonished university lecturers not to see themselves as experts who need no further training and reengineering in their various fields.
According to him, such thinking is no longer tenable in a fast technologically changing world.
Aina stated this while delivering the 82nd LASU Inaugural Lecture Series titled “Management and leadership in the university: Dilemma or titillation to nation building.”
The professor, a former Chief Resident Training Consultant to the World Bank, also called on the management of Nigerian universities to make efforts at internationalizing their activities through collaborative linkages in research and staff/student exchange programmes.
Doing so, would lead to improved staff capacity through such experiences, he added.
For universties to remain relevant in today’s world, it has to continually respond to the needs of her societies in time and space.
“University leadership in a competitive society of the 21st Century should have an active R&D centre to coordinate the direction of research in the institution. The centre will additionally focus on creating linkages, collaborations, internationalisation of efforts and mounting of advocacy for industrial cooperation and patenting of research breakthroughs,” he suggested.
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