Some universities still using obsolete teaching methods – UNILAG VC

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Folasade Ogunsola has said some tertiary institutions of learning are still using obsolete methodologies. Speaking at the 4th African Research Universities Alliance, ARUA, held in UNILAG, Ogunsola said: “We cannot keep teaching the way we have always taught. A number of our institutions are teaching obsolete […]

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Folasade Ogunsola has said some tertiary institutions of learning are still using obsolete methodologies.

Speaking at the 4th African Research Universities Alliance, ARUA, held in UNILAG, Ogunsola said: “We cannot keep teaching the way we have always taught. A number of our institutions are teaching obsolete forms of knowledge with obsolete pedagogies.”

She described universities as moulders of the future of Africa carrying out educational and social functions.

“It is my firm belief that universities have both an educational and social function.

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“Universities are the place where a desired future can be imagined – and our business today is to imagine a desired future for Africa and going beyond that, to establish the steps required to produce a new generation of African thinkers and doers that can take us to this desired future,” she said.

Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the state government was committed to improving the quality of education in the state.