Joanna Yusuf
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has uncovered why Nigerian universities fail in worldwide rankings.
The NUC which talked through its Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed in Abuja on Monday during an intuitive session with writers said that the socioeconomics of the colleges in Nigeria uncover a dominance of over localisation and over indigenisation.
Rasheed further said that over indigenised colleges won’t include or be very much evaluated on the basis of the level of global understudies and staff on the planet positioning of colleges.
While responding to the deception on catchment zones, he said that it was completely false that the Federal Government had annulled the catchment region as a component of the criteria for induction into colleges.
”The truth is that the government is concerned that in this era of internalisation of university education, the demographics of the universities reveal a preponderance of over localisation and over indiginisation.
“How then can such over indigenised university feature or be well ranked on the criterion of the percentage of international students and staff in the world ranking of universities.
”The way we are going we are missing so many things, we cannot be ranked high because we are negating key principles of university global practices,” he said.
