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- ItemOpen AccessBuilding a Sustainable Future-Ready University: Ideas and Perceptions of a Financial Manager(2024-12-17) Odekunle, L. A.The concept of a 'future-ready university' has emerged as a central focus in today’s educational landscape, presenting both a renewed emphasis and a transformative frontier in higher education discourse and management. The post-pandemic era, marked by rapid technological advancements and global economic challenges, has intensified the need to rethink universities' roles and their readiness for the future. A university is deemed future-ready when it not only addresses today’s challenges but also remains resilient and adaptable in overcoming the uncertainties of tomorrow. Among the sustainability factors contributing to the future readiness of a university, financial sustainability appears to stand out as a critical cornerstone as I view through the lens of a financial manager. By the definition of the United Nations, sustainability encompasses three key pillars: environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and economic viability. In the context of a university, economic viability specifically refers to the institution’s long-term financial sustainability, ensuring that the university can support its academic mission and future growth. This financial sustainability is driven by scalable, adaptive, and growth-oriented financial management, which empowers universities to expand their resources, programs, and infrastructure in response to evolving demands. Such financial agility ensures long-term viability, institutional resilience, and global competitiveness. For Nigerian universities, the discussion around future readiness is particularly urgent. These institutions face significant financial hurdles, including limited government funding, growing demand for higher education, and intensifying global competition.
- ItemOpen AccessCulture, Power and Development: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics of Indigenous Knowledge Devaluation in Africa(Postgraduate School, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Nigeria, 2024-11-28) Odukoya, A.O.Full Texts Attached
- ItemOpen AccessParadigm Shift in University Education: the Alethia University Ago-Iwoye Perspective(2024-06-15) Ogundipe, O.T.A Paradigm Shift for Higher Education We are witnessing fundamental and dramatic changes across different areas of our lives. In fact, since the beginning of the 20th century, the rate of change has accelerated in various fields with the term "acceleration of history" more commonly used to describe this phenomenon. This acceleration continues its course today and will intensify as we move deeper into the 21st century. Today, we are living in a world that is constantly transforming. Our ability to adapt and grow is now invaluable, and the idea of a systemic “paradigm shift” across multiple areas has profound implications not only for our personal and professional lives but also for the area I have devoted my entire professional career to: university education. We are shifting the lens through which we view the world and the new inventions and capabilities being brought to life. For university education, it can lead to a more authentic, fulfilling experience, and greater success for students and learners everywhere. On a personal level, we can take advantage in more meaningful ways of life which has to offer to our day-to-day jobs. We are continuing to engage discussions about the value of a college degree, credentialing, admissions, university costs, student learning outcomes and success, attainment, paths to employment, and policy issues that still remain unresolved. Just as the leap from Newtonian physics to quantum mechanics revolutionized our understanding of the universe, we should encourage a redefinition of our beliefs and perspectives on higher education. By adjusting and changing perspectives, we should transition from old paradigms to new ones, encouraging groundbreaking viewpoints like moving from a 20th century exclusionary approach to higher education to a truly 21st century inclusionary model where the “getting in, getting through and getting out” framework of linear educational institution can efficiently be substituted, reconsidered, and adapted to provide individual and professional success for all learners globally.
- ItemOpen AccessLearned Academies and Social Responsibility(Unilag Press, 2014-06-09) Banjo, A.I should like, to begin with, to thank the Vice-Chancellor and the entire University of Lagos for the honour of being invited to give this year's Convocation Lecture of the University. At a time when the number of universities in the country seems to be increasing by leaps and bounds, we should recognize the special place of a university like this one, which pioneered the offering of degree and postgraduate studies in the area of the professions, at a time when the nation's premier university, the University of Ibadan, was still preoccupied with the traditional image of a university. The picture has changed somewhat since 1960, but the leadership of Lagos in professional studies has to be recognized; and I hasten to add that this has in no way jeopardised the University's excellence in all the other programmes that it offers. The proliferation of universities in this country will inevitably lead us to the position in many other countries, where universities are categorized in terms of excellence. It is mere wishful thinking to expect that all the two hundred universities in the country will be of the same quality. When that categorization crystallizes, Lagos will surely be in the First Division, not because it is today described as a member of the so-called first generation of universities, but because, like a few other universities, it is the model to influence many of the universities at present being established, and those predictably to be established in the future. My hope is that, as in other countries, our First Division universities will receive a special attention both of the government and of the private sector.
- ItemOpen AccessRemarks of Professor Rahamon A. Bello at his investiture ceremony as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Nigeria(Unilag Press & Bookshop, 2013-02) Bello, R.A.Full texts attached