Jennifer Y Omiloli
Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), said that teaching in two different universities is not an offense for lecturers.
Ogunyemi, who said this when he appeared on Sunday at the Nigeria News Agency (NAN) Forum in Abuja, said the diversity is generally an opportunity to compare standards.
He said dual – university teaching would only add to the program as it would give lecturers the ability to borrow and learn ideas from each other.
“The university systems allows for what we call Sabbatical. It is part of university tradition and practices all over the world.
“The purpose that it serves is that you create window for peer review. In other words, what you are doing in university A, you go to university B and see whether that is what obtains exactly, or you need to borrow something, or you share some ideas.
“Sabbatical is a mechanism for assuring comparability of standards. Anybody that goes out for sabbaticals, when he or she comes back to the university, he adds value to the system.
“You are bringing something back, no matter how little, to the system. Where you have gone too, they get something from you.
“So, we encourage that from time to time in the university system because universities are regarded as universal places of learning and research,” he said.
