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By Our Reporter
Response by a lecturer and head of department.
Thanks for seeking clarification. I will tell you the little I know, as follows:
Thanks for seeking clarification. I will tell you the little I know, as follows:
- Baze University is like any other University, guided by NUC regulations, in addition to professional stipulations, like the Council for Legal Education, in the case of Law.
- Conditions set out for graduation must be met by all students, not just to avoid sanctions from regulators, but to instill knowledge in the ideal sense, to grow understanding towards self fulfilment, and for social, economic, and political impact.
- All entrants have equal status as students, and are obliged to fulfil graduation requirements, administered by a passel of instructors, comprising lecturers and professors (validated by externals), who can’t prioritise assessments, away from employer…
- We run a trimester system, whereby we do three semesters in a year, each lasting for an approximately three to four months. Students have the option of doing two in a year, like other public institutions; or three, if they want early graduation-and can cope.
- We were active in school in the COVID-19 period, cashing in on our initiative in IT, and using Google Classroom, especially. A fair understanding will reveal how effective this can be, save for problems of power, and such likes, which the calibre of students we have are easily able to surmount.
- All processes were peer validated by colleagues from sister universities, and audited by the NUC, and other regulatory bodies.
- Private universities were prominent with this innovation across the country, in what was like what other great universities like Cambridge, and others, did for some courses.
- These set of graduates are not the first by Baze. We have had many that headed to the Law School and finishing with flying colours. The bit about the political trio not likely to go to Law School is neither here nor there, and may not deserve response as it appears a weak speculation.
- Quality of learning is not determined by longevity, but sometimes by intensity and concentration. The avoidable length of stay in public universities is not because of the rigours of studies, but an avalanche of extra-academic problems, to wit: strikes, cultism, etc.-all absent in Baze.
- Again, I will say: the curriculum in Baze is not different from elsewhere, but just that you have the option of completing it faster than it is in mainly public schools.
- Baze was set up by a creative mind, initially assisted by some foreign experts, from across the world, who left after a consolidation. It is ahead in pedagogy, leveraging on a huge investment in IT, and consistent with international best practice-a thing many public institutions in Nigeria may not imagine. Need we measure the innovative University with the standards of the relatively underfunded public schools, where, as an instance, some computer science graduates never saw a computer until town?
- Culled from Facebook of Chido Nwakanma.
