Professor James Ayatse is the vice chancellor of Federal University, Dutsinma, Katsina State. In this interview with Imoh Ekanem, he says Nigerian universities perform poorly in global ranking because of poor internet facilities. He also discusses his administration's efforts to tackle the teething problems of the new university.
Federal University, Dutsinma, is the first to commence academic activities among the nine new universities established by the federal government. How has the take-off been?
Well, we started with appointments to the position of vice chancellor and we were presented to the government and people of Katsina State on March 10, 2011. That is when all the activities started as we were able to mobilize, move in and start recruiting the staff. We did renovation of take-off campus with massive support from the Katsina State government which donated N1 billion for the take-off projects.
The money was used to renovate a lot of structures and put some new structures on site. We also had a take-off grant of N1.5 billion from the federal government through Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). The combination of these two sources of funding facilitated our efforts to prepare for the take-off and, understandably, we were the first to take off in July last year.
We have already started our second set of students. Again we are the first among the nine universities to start the second set of students. We have the largest number of programmes and we also have good staffing on ground, the facilities are adequate. In fact, we are on.
Where does the university hope to be in the next five years?
In the next five years, we hope to have carved out a niche for ourselves and distinguish ourselves in our area of strength. This university is configured to be ICT-driven. We want our services to be ICT-driven; we want to capitalize and emphasize that and develop strength in it. Right now, all our exams, everything, is ICT-driven. Students get results in less than three weeks after exams, and they can access their results anywhere in the world. So, in the next five years, we want to be a university that is efficiently operated and managed with academic activities designed to be cutting edge. We hope to be among the top universities in Nigeria and, hopefully, get listed in the top 200 universities in the world.
shibatm 13 Aug, 2013
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Source: http://www.nigeriaschoolsblog.com/interviews/we-will-be-listed-in-the-top-200-universities-in-the-world-prof-ayatse/
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