…Canvasses lecturers’ secondment to civil service
…Law programme should be pursued after first degree
By Adeyemi Rosiji
A Law Professor and Vice Chancellor of a Rwandan University, Olu Ojedokun, recently called on the National Universities Commission [NUC] to allow universities greater autonomy in the pursuit of interdisciplinary programmes through reviewing the current curriculum.
Ojedokun made the call while delivering the 21st inaugural lecture of the Lead City University, Ibadan which was held at the Conference Centre of the university.
The professor said: ‘’The Nigerian University Commission (NUC) needs to permit a revision of the current Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CMAS), to allow universities greater autonomy in the pursuit of interdisciplinary programmes’’.
He also said that there should be opportunities for university teachers to be seconded to the civil service, voluntary sector, and business sector for defined periods, possibly as part of their sabbatical leave, to promote and ensure a more viable engagement between town and gown and vice versa.
The law professor said there was a need to have a first degree before a candidate could be admitted into law programmes.
He said: ‘’It is desirable to achieve a first degree before an admission into a law degree programme’’.
The lecture, which had the theme: ‘’Speaking Truth to Power, Which Way Forward, Doctrinalism, Multi-disciplinary or Interdisciplinary?’’, was held under the chairmanship of Lead City University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo.
