Lecturers resigning because of poor motivation - Prof. Oduro

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• Numo Kome 8 years ago

  Prof, don't sweat this out. NAPO will get things right before you can say Jack

  Prof, don't sweat this out. NAPO will get things right before you can say Jack

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• brain rejuvinater 8 years ago

  NAPO can't do anything. even his own profession, he is not competent in it, how much more a different field? Lose bulu nose minister has nothing to offer. only opening his mouth and nose and talk like he had inhaled water fro ...
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  NAPO can't do anything. even his own profession, he is not competent in it, how much more a different field? Lose bulu nose minister has nothing to offer. only opening his mouth and nose and talk like he had inhaled water from a tap. Deviant man.

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• Yaw Adu-Asare 8 years ago

  Since K. A. Busia and Progress Party tookover power, the quality of education in Ghana started on a downward spiral.
  Ghana Needs Kwame Nkrumah
  
  FORWAED EVER!

  Since K. A. Busia and Progress Party tookover power, the quality of education in Ghana started on a downward spiral.
  Ghana Needs Kwame Nkrumah
  
  FORWAED EVER!

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• kofi 8 years ago

  APPLY MASLOW'S THEORY

  APPLY MASLOW'S THEORY

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• Sammy 8 years ago

  of hierarchy of needs?

  of hierarchy of needs?

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• AGBESI KWESI 8 years ago

  Imagine UDS offering Applied Biology without a laboratory. What is applied about such a programme. You can now see why graduates come out of school and become useless.

  Imagine UDS offering Applied Biology without a laboratory. What is applied about such a programme. You can now see why graduates come out of school and become useless.

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• Lukasu Jota 8 years ago

  This is really funny. If there is no lab, then it is just similar second cycle education programme we have in Ghana.

  This is really funny. If there is no lab, then it is just similar second cycle education programme we have in Ghana.

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• Papa 8 years ago

  This is revealling!

  This is revealling!

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• Joe 8 years ago

  It is sad to read this story and a head of department of Political Science at the University of Science and Technology, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah was let go because some one like Asiedu Nketiah who was just a pupil teacher coul ...
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  It is sad to read this story and a head of department of Political Science at the University of Science and Technology, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah was let go because some one like Asiedu Nketiah who was just a pupil teacher could instigate that he leave the university and when he retired, no contract was given to him as done with all other lecturers. When people like Asiedu Nketiah are in the whelm of affairs of a nation, what progress can that country make. Thank God NPP is here to change everything.

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• Sammy 8 years ago

  How are lecturers appraised? Is it linked up with remuneration?

  How are lecturers appraised? Is it linked up with remuneration?

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• ras 8 years ago

  How are other workers appraised?

  How are other workers appraised?

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• Amecole 8 years ago

  Much as l agree in part with what Prof. Oduro said, l have some reservations about some of the issues raised.
  Yes renumeration-wise more may need to be done, but the faculty teaching staff need to up their game. Lecturers a ...
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  Much as l agree in part with what Prof. Oduro said, l have some reservations about some of the issues raised.
  Yes renumeration-wise more may need to be done, but the faculty teaching staff need to up their game. Lecturers are supposed to not only teach varsity students, but additionally engage in meaningful reseach for advancement of their areas of specialty in addition to attracting grants to their respective universities. Additionally they are supposed to help towards the professional development of their students.
  I am afraid to say in most Ghanaian universities lecturers fail in the last two roles/functions. Many Ghanaian lectures are just teachers, in other words reading material preachers and conveyors. That aspect of their work that puts them on a level above secondary and primary teachers-----research, grant attraction and student professional development get thrown to the dogs (or back burner).
  This results in the university products/graduates lacking

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• Amecole 8 years ago

  *(Sorry_Continuing from previou post)
  This results in most Ghanaian university products/graduates showing a lack of innovation, intellectual curiosity in making a difference and an overall lack of professionalism in their "p ...
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  *(Sorry_Continuing from previou post)
  This results in most Ghanaian university products/graduates showing a lack of innovation, intellectual curiosity in making a difference and an overall lack of professionalism in their "professional" life, as a result of not having inculcated that habit from their teachers (otherwise lecturers). Juxtapose my comments above with graduates from other schools in the developed countries, our graduates may be able to pass examinations (even foreign ones), but will lag behind where innovation, research and professionalism are concerned.
  The challenge l will throw to our yertiary institute staff is that in crying out for better renumeration, they have to remember their core roles as tertiary institution lecturers and not mere tertiary institution teachers. Only then can they be in a powerful and meaningful position to argue their case for the appropriate recognition they deserve. Unfortunately until that threshold is met Ghanaian tertiary teachers will just be lecturers in name, but not academic quality.

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• Odikro 8 years ago

  This is complete nonsense. University professors are required to do three things - Teaching, research (professional development) and service. Do they do the three without any motivation or hope of it, or their employers have ...
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  This is complete nonsense. University professors are required to do three things - Teaching, research (professional development) and service. Do they do the three without any motivation or hope of it, or their employers have the responsibility of motivating them to perform? How much of scientific research can any of them do without even a decent laboratory? And imagine these JSS kids like Ablakwah et al walking away with GHC800 V8s, while the average professor can not afford a bicycle. Imagine the palm wine tapper, Asiedu Nketia or Kofi Adams with five of those cars while the professor take tro tro to lectures. Think more clearly.

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• Naniama II 8 years ago

  Cost sharing will generate substantial amount of money to help pay the prosessors well. Guess what, in exchange, government subventions will be used to upgrade facilities, utilities including labs, library, ICT labs etc.
  
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  Cost sharing will generate substantial amount of money to help pay the prosessors well. Guess what, in exchange, government subventions will be used to upgrade facilities, utilities including labs, library, ICT labs etc.
  
  I have no doubt that these will help professors teach well and ensure the graduates have quality education.
  
  I have seen profs traveling out of Ghana and excelling in prestigious colleges in the West where their intellectual properties are valued!

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• Simpayi Ba 8 years ago

  In todays world money does not follow titles or prestige. Money follows where it can make more money.
  What practical and pragmatic research is coming from the professors and the universities - zilch.
  
  The quality of gradu ...
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  In todays world money does not follow titles or prestige. Money follows where it can make more money.
  What practical and pragmatic research is coming from the professors and the universities - zilch.
  
  The quality of graduates coming out of our universities presently are of poor quality.
  
  We have created a country where we are obsessed with titles instead of delivering needed INTELLECTUAL DOERS.
  
  I would dare the Professor and his colleagues to produce annually useful and beneficial researches list and ask businesses and industries and govt to implement and work with them and money would just pour into the universities
  
  Most of the lecturers at our universities are only interested in being called DOCTOR and PROFESSORS but in terms beneficial outputs they are far below par.
  
  They need to put their acts together before they become irrelevant in our society because of the way technology is going.
  
  I would love to see our universities coming out with practical solutions to some of our very basic national problems.

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• Amecole. 8 years ago

  Firstly let us learn to know and understand the etiquette of dis curs on these forums.
  Secondly my argument in my piece was not to disregard the issue raised by Prof. Oduro. What I wanted to bring up was that complaining ab ...
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  Firstly let us learn to know and understand the etiquette of dis curs on these forums.
  Secondly my argument in my piece was not to disregard the issue raised by Prof. Oduro. What I wanted to bring up was that complaining about lack of incentives/motivation was fine. On the other hand life is a two way street, hence while Prof. Oduro has every right to complain, has he also urged his peers to live up to their duties to their employers/students, whilst receiving a monthly cheque and at the same time complaining?
  University dons all over the world are not paid deservedly compared to the private sector, it is a choice vocation. If it is about money only then maybe some of our "lecturers " are in the wrong vocation, sorry.

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• AK 8 years ago

  @simpayi ba, maybe u have missed the point. University dons or teachers are supposed to embark on basic research as per academic requirement worldwide, and in ghana funding for research is so inadequate to call for the kind o ...
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  @simpayi ba, maybe u have missed the point. University dons or teachers are supposed to embark on basic research as per academic requirement worldwide, and in ghana funding for research is so inadequate to call for the kind of research u calling for. How do u expect $1,500 per year per lecturer to do any meaningful research? Or u expect the teachers to use their meagre salaries to do those researh? Don't also forget that promotion of the university lecturer is tied to the quality and number of publications he is able to produce in addition to quality of teaching, community service and other things such as good conduct. Almost all other professionals require just long service, performance, conduct etc; research publication is not part of their requirements. Now, after the basic research, industry players who are interested in the findings of those research are, therefore, supposed to partner the professors to move the research to an applied level (applied research) so that industry can adopt and apply them. Until that's done there will always be a disconnect between academia and industry. Universities do not have the capacity in terms of resources, be it financial or physical, to embark on massive applied research, and this is the case the world over and not only peculiar to Ghana. Let me also remind the writer of this article that, now Ghana has more than eight public universities; the eight public technical universities bring the number to sixteen. Ghanaians should learn to embrace change and stop playing the ostrich.

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• Amecole. 8 years ago

  You are right in part, but remember in most Western universities, lecturers are not paid "research allowance" to undertake research. Research allowance in Ghanaian universities were introduced as an incentive to attract lectu ...
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  You are right in part, but remember in most Western universities, lecturers are not paid "research allowance" to undertake research. Research allowance in Ghanaian universities were introduced as an incentive to attract lecturers to universities when their numbers were few then. At this point of the game research allowance is perceived by its recipients as a right, rather than a privilege.
  Lastly we have to remind ourselves that for industry to be attracted to the basic research of Ghanaian universities this sort of research should be "attractive" in content and outcome for industry to support it. This is how European/American university dons gain traction from industry. Research is an art as well as science, hence it should be attractive to readers and consumers. Hopefully those of us in Ghana will get the point, and lift up the flag whilst seeking motivation/incentives.

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