Former executive secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Peter Okebukola, has raised the alarm over the high level of academic corruption in the country, saying that over 60 per cent of project reports of Nigeria undergraduates are plagiarized.
Speaking at the first Kwara State University (KWASU) Education Lecture at Malete on Thursday, Professor Okebukola said that rate of plagiarism as a form of academic corruption at the Masters level is between 15 and 20 per cent and eight per cent at the PhD level in the nation’s tertiary institutions.
“It’s academic corruption when lecturers don’t show up in classes as required or teach only 10 subjects out of about 20 in a semester, and when students negotiate with lecturers for marks”, he said.
On the topic of the lecture, Declaration of state of emergency in education in Nigeria: The day after, Professor Okebukola said that solving problems in the education sector might be challenging, but not impossible.
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“Government must place a high premium on education by providing adequate financial resources for the sector. Our institutions of learning must also look for innovative ways to raise funds. The teaching profession must be considered as one of the most important jobs and accorded due regard. The Minister of Education must appeal to state governors to give special emphasis to addressing the problem of low quality of basic education. Also, there is the need for an enabling environment to be created for teachers and students through improved conditions of service, provision of basic infrastructures for the delivery of quality education.
“It is not in doubt that in the next six months or so, attention will turn more to the election process and less on the emergency that has been declared on education. The closing prayer of this lecture is that when the hurly-burly of elections are over in May 2019, the priority for government should be in implementing the road map on rescuing the education sector from the emergency situation”, he said.
Okebukola, who is also the president, Global University Network for Innovation,
said that Nigeria universities are grossly under-resourced in human and physical resources, called for adequate funding of public educational institutions in the country, adding that weakly served funding had led to the unacceptable level of decay in the education sector.
He frowned at activities of some state governments in the country, who he said were quick in establishing state universities but very slow in funding the institutions.
The educationist, who said that inadequate funding of education at state universities had led to non-accreditation of courses and low standard, charged state governments to stop asking the management of state universities to fend for themselves.
“Yet, these state universities admit an incredible number of students above infrastructure put in place. What they are doing is literally selling certificates to gullible graduates and bleeding Nigeria education system”, he said.
ALL OF IT!
sure…..
Agreed
What have you done with the other 40% not plagiarised?
90%
Bright Bros I wonder ooooo….
You are absolutely right
Omorilewa Victor Olutayo They’re only good at talking but can’t act when you need them to solve basic problems in our academic institutions…
When our leaders plagiarise governance from Europe & America. Sir, pls what do you expect from us?
Before nko?
95%
But the name is RE-SEARCH not SEARCH then what do you expect from the name?
Wetin concern us?? After all, are there jobs to justify the projects?? Please, leave us alone to manage our lives as it is now..
Oga even nigeria itself is plagiarised, 90% lecturers in the class plagiarised yes!!
And The Voodoo Lecturers Nko?
100%
Of course but the facilities to conduct new innovations is tasky
from my own research, 85 % of them plagiarised.
60%? 99% oga. That 60% should be attributed to MSc. Ask MSc students this days to publish their thesis and they will start running away and calling u wicked lecturer coz they know it’s trash and copied
This man is so funny…. He wanted to prove that the life he’s living is not plagiarised….? ???? I challenge him to quote me wrong for this.
The projects that are dumped in the dustbin after suffering the students
Nah, it is higher than that. I’d say 90%
What do you expect from a porous educational system. Before you guys start complaining, fix the system and see if it won’t work. How many federal and state own higher institutions do give out research grants to students as being done in other countries?
All d geniue and original ones in ur achieve did they make use of their suggested recommendations? Thast’s why d present stu keeps reminding u o.,
Universities should start using vericite for thesis authentication, for plagiarism detection
99.82%
I will never answer such professor again & let him continue plagiarism & what i acknowledged stand4eva
Lols
You can easily google and then make the writer to defend their work .
Thanks
When some people are getting home delivery certificates …hmmmm… Make I no talk sha
60% ke? It’s somewhere around 95%
What is the used of the project? When all our educated people are supporting primary school certificate holder
80
Not with mine. moreover,what have you done to change the status quo?
My dear speak less, if there are facilities in this country, we will definitely do better than most of the western world, we are too bright, so came down.
60% kee? More like 99.99999%, let’s leave the balance for the self acclaimed righteous ones.
The Nigeria as a country is plagiarised so what do you expect final year students who know that they will stay for one year before being deployed for service, come back and be jobless for God knows when to do? Kill themselves for RESEARCH? You only get motivated to do something when you know that something will be fruitful in no distant time. Those that did theirs by themselves, where are they working now? Bet Naija!
What are you do with the projects after spending a lot of money you lecturer’s will dump them in dust bill
Fact
Does government make use of the recommendations and suggestions, after a while they sell the projects to toilet roll manufacturing company
Better still, 90% of undergraduate, 75% of MSc and 60% of PhD projects are plagiarized.
Abii 101%
The remaining 40% nko, what is the impact on the educational sector, after the project you pack the project materials and sell to those that sell akara and puff-puff
even more
Most of the lectures aren’t better than the students, the only difference is their experiences and age.
Jerome Achir true
He is right. The figures should be higher than what he mentioned. He forgot to add that at least 60% of published works by academics in Nigerian universities and polytechnics are equally plagiarized.
Not on architecture.
97 percent.
Oga is up to 90% oooo>>>>
Like lifeless Bushit .
My friend keep quite. If I asked u to solve common quadratic equation for me using almighty formula can u? Corruptible yeye leaders
The truth is bitter u are correct, okebukola,people just carried paper certificate without any performance to justify their certificate. A degree holder who called himself mechanical engineer will still carried his vehicle to road side mechanics for repair,what does that mean,and they are there telling Buhari that he did not hold waec certificate. Somebody became general in army,yet he did not have waec,he ruled as a soldier, he ruled as a civilian yet he did not have certificate. Na jealousy, jealousy because some of them just hold papers they called it certificate and nobody recognised them.
Mikaila Loko nice one
GOD bless you brother…..not to talk of the bribe wey the lecturers gi carry wory person life….
No doubt…. We can’t have our cake and eat it!
Even the lecturers…
More than that, please.
go to the ivy schools, do undergraduates do projects? what do the undergraduates know that they won’t plagiarize. they write projects that after a few years you pack and burn them.
98%
What of Post graduate?
It’s 90percent
You are right sir
Only? Get Your Figures Right Abeg, We Should Be Looking At Something Above 95%
Truth are bitter
Na today.
Honestly More than that
Why won’t it be plagiarised,when the country has no value for intellectual properties, these projects ends up in refuse dump after some years
98%
95% sef
Our own nko make we kill ourselves when una go give us difficult something dat we have little knowledge on n guys been the supervisor do nothing to help so…. What do u think master u no it all
Juries don’t read 70 percentage of projects.
Even the lecturers too are mostly plagiarism products. So, students only emulate them
Who ask you? Mr. Project
Lol
Yes
This is an obvious but sad fact
I am with optimistic that the figure is more than 75%
90%
True! including the professor’s dissertation.
As if the remaining 40% are being used in national assembly or any other thing less than throwing and burning them
Very soon plagiarism will flow in the blood of all Nigerian students
Talk about Msc PhD and other publications. Undergraduate still the learn work
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That’s why the units be combatted to writing examination.
Who’s fault? Did students study in a serene environment!
Is anyone aware of this???????
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It’s true because they have poor supervision
Quote ur source
What’s wrong with the system called turn in? Any plagiarised materials will be detected and anyone caught will be suspended from the university.
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