“Oil is going to dry out. The Stone Age ended not because there were no stones…but because new ideas and knowledge overtook them. We have to think more and invest in a knowledge economy”
For two intellectually absorbing days a fortnight ago, a mini crowd of scholars, ranking professors, former and serving Vice-Chancellors, public intellectuals, journalists and administrators converged at Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo for the first leg of a regional conference on higher education in Africa.
Though the academic feast and fiesta lived up to its billings, it would have been more delicious still if top policymakers participated as well as exchanged ideas at the conference. Imagine if Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who has declared his ambition to be Nigeria’s next president, or the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yet to declare his ambition but considered in some quarters a prospective runner, had participated in such an auspicious intellectual exercise with bearing on policymaking.
Discussion and analysis ranged over the entire gamut of higher education, as we pored intently over such topics as reforming public universities, the role of academic staff unions, curriculum reform, founders and promoters of private universities, universities of education, pitfalls in funding, reintroducing merit and global standards, staff-student relations, the role of gender.
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