Labour Relations and Human Development Implications of Unstable Academic Calendars in Nigerian Universities
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Labour Relations and Human Development Implications of Unstable Academic Calendars in Nigerian Universities
By
Akinde, Sunday Israel
Department of Sociology
Adekunle Ajasin University
Akungba, Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.
E-mail: aktrust@yahoo.com
Tel: 0805-4664751 $ 0706-8460643
Abstract
Universities in Nigeria have over the years struggled to maintain stability in their academic calendars without much success. This has resulted in operating the academic calendars from behind or outright cancellation in order to adjust to current academic session. A random selection of 60 executive members of ASUU from 37 universities cutting across universities in the six geopolitical zones in the country indicates unresolved University-ASUU crises as single major factor responsible for disruption in academic calendars. Analyses further reveal that dragged academic sessions have generated unintended consequence of unutilized annual leave resulting in stress, depreciated health, and substandard intellectual renewal of academic staff together with crashed academic programmes, and yearly turning out of half-baked graduates. All the above smack of labour relations problems and negative indices of human development. It is therefore suggested among others, that, a Resolution of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of ASUU be established, in consonance with the already existing ILO and the Nigerian Labour Law provisions on the issue in order to enforce a compulsory annual leave for members nationwide.
Key Words:* Labour Relations * Human Development * Human Capital * Conflict
INTRODUCTION
The last two decades have witnessed high incidence of unstable academic calendars in the Nigerian Universities. The instability, no doubt, has contributed immensely to reduction in quality service delivery and perennial decline in educational standard in the country. Quality and standard will be compromised when the curriculum is often crashed for the purpose of catching up with...
By
Akinde, Sunday Israel
Department of Sociology
Adekunle Ajasin University
Akungba, Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.
E-mail: aktrust@yahoo.com
Tel: 0805-4664751 $ 0706-8460643
Abstract
Universities in Nigeria have over the years struggled to maintain stability in their academic calendars without much success. This has resulted in operating the academic calendars from behind or outright cancellation in order to adjust to current academic session. A random selection of 60 executive members of ASUU from 37 universities cutting across universities in the six geopolitical zones in the country indicates unresolved University-ASUU crises as single major factor responsible for disruption in academic calendars. Analyses further reveal that dragged academic sessions have generated unintended consequence of unutilized annual leave resulting in stress, depreciated health, and substandard intellectual renewal of academic staff together with crashed academic programmes, and yearly turning out of half-baked graduates. All the above smack of labour relations problems and negative indices of human development. It is therefore suggested among others, that, a Resolution of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of ASUU be established, in consonance with the already existing ILO and the Nigerian Labour Law provisions on the issue in order to enforce a compulsory annual leave for members nationwide.
Key Words:* Labour Relations * Human Development * Human Capital * Conflict
INTRODUCTION
The last two decades have witnessed high incidence of unstable academic calendars in the Nigerian Universities. The instability, no doubt, has contributed immensely to reduction in quality service delivery and perennial decline in educational standard in the country. Quality and standard will be compromised when the curriculum is often crashed for the purpose of catching up with...