Opinion: Minister Adamu: Migrating Online Goes Beyond Ministerial Directive, By Olabisi Deji-Folutile
For almost three weeks now, Nigeria’s tertiary institutions have failed to move their classes online as directed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. We know that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, who are supposed to upload their lecture notes online, are still on strike, but polytechnic and colleges of education lecturers are working. Yet, there are no online activities in these institutions.
We need to get all hands on deck for any form of online teaching to take place in our universities. Already, the education sector in this country is confronted with myriads of challenges. Shifting education completely online in a country like Nigeria is like trying to squeeze water from the rock. You can imagine what it means to go online in a country where 47.1 per cent of the population do not have access to the internet.
Of course, the bitter truth is that Nigerian public tertiary institutions cannot go online for now. Let’s start from the minimum requirement for both teachers and students to migrate online – they need personal computers.
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