ASUU, Has Been Known For Strike actions than for other critical functions

ASUU, Has Been Known For Strike actions than for other critical functions

A former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, has attributed the fallen standard and delivery of quality education in public tertiary institutions in Nigeria to the incessant strikes by lecturers

While faulting the Academic Staff Union of Universities for frequently embarking on strike, he believed that ASUU had recently become more known for strike actions than for other critical functions that birthed its formation.

He said, “Strikes by Academic Staff Union of Universities have no doubt become one of the defining characteristics and features of Nigeria’s university system with serious impacts on the state of education in Nigeria

One of the undeniable facts and reasons for the perceived fallen standard of education and the delivery of quality education is the epileptic nature of the school calendar as a result of too frequent strike actions in the system.

Academic activities are rushed to cover lost grounds and, in many cases, left uncovered.

This adversely affects the quality of products and their ability to deliver on their areas of presumed and assumed competence in the open market and on the job.

The main purpose of ASUU, as a trade union and a pressure group, is to serve as an organisation of academic staff in universities; regulate relations between academic staff and their employers and among members; establish and maintain a high standard of academic performance and professional practice; establish just and proper conditions of service for its members; and protect and advance the socio-economic and cultural interests of the nation

The education system does not require at this stage, a rehash of the debates regarding the correctness, rightness and legitimacy or otherwise of these strikes.