A group, the Voice of African Universities (VAU), has labelled a petition submitted to Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, alleging a breach of extant guidelines in the appointment of Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi as the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), as baseless and archaic.
The group, in a press statement on Thursday and signed by its Director, Public Relations, Jean Luck Aglogan, said the controversial petition hinged on a primitive argument that a Vice-Chancellor must possess 10 years of post-professorial experience.
“This outdated notion undermines the evolution of global academia, where merit and innovative leadership have become the hallmarks of university administration. The issue of years post professorial experience is an old thing as even in Nigeria, there are many universities whose Vice Chancellors were appointed without such clause…
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