Nigeria rejects all online degrees

The National Universities Commission warns Nigerians against patronizing online universities.

NUC Repudiates Online Degrees, Condemns Maryam Abacha University |too bad these benighted people don't understand the diff between online degrees and degree mills.

 

Thank goodness we have Nigeria to protect against scams.

 

*Checks spam folder, shudders...

 

I reject all degrees from Nigerian universities. So there.

 

It's kind of like what would happen if Kansas declared they would no longer accept Harvard Law degrees as bar qualifying.

On the one hand, wow, kind of a big deal in terms of news.

On the other hand, it would probably only affect two people so...whatevs.

 

Don't think so. Nigeria has a population of over 173 million and despite numerous internal problems, it's one of the richest countries in Africa. There are distance schools - good and bad - here and elsewhere - that serve many, many Nigerians. Nigeria's mainstream universities cannot accommodate nearly all who apply. Many people - just as here - must work while they study. I think they should just abolish distance ed. from the BAD schools. :smile:

It's going to have a bad effect on the Nigerian economy - to cut people off from education. I think it's knee-jerk reaction by officials looking for an expedient way - however ill-conceived - to stop the flood of bogus and/or substandard degrees - some knowingly obtained, others innocently.

Anyway - there are 'way more than one or two people - my sole point here.

J

 

My sense of it is that the degree mill problem has become big enough there that they had to just slam the door until they can put some system into place to screen the degrees/schools in order to weed out the junk. In time legitimate online degrees will again be allowed.

 

I agree. What I don't understand is why Nigeria finds it so difficult to systematize weeding-out the junk. Here at DI, WE do it all the time! :smile:

J

 

I've recently had contact with a Nigerian Prince. Perhaps he could help shop your idea to the Ministry of Education.:lmao:

 

That's nothing, I have contacts with the Emperor of Africa

 

While I'm waiting to hear from the Prince again, here are some stats about higher education in Nigeria.

http://www.uis.unesco.org/StatisticalCapacityBuilding/Workshop%20Documents/Education%20workshop%20dox/2010%20Windhoek%20-Regional%20Workshop%20on%20Education%20Statistics%20for%20South%20and%20Eastern%20Africa/NIGERIA-Higher%20education%20statistics-%20National%20experience.pdf

 

Interesting, are they rejecting Nigerian DL degrees or all DL degrees from around the world.

For example MSW degree from University of Southern California is a DL degree.
The school it self is B&M well respected Unversity in US and the rest of the world.

Lets say a graduate from USC DL program would go as instructor to teach in Nigerian University?
Or work based on their MSW degree in some UN organization in Hegira?

 

That lying weasel, he told me I was the only one he contacted and to keep it a secret. Does this mean I will not receive my $100 million dollars? I'm getting a hold of Doctor Evil. I'm so mad, that lying Son of :censored:

 

Here's an editorial on the subject

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: The Ban On Online Degrees in Nigeria

 

I'll help you hire a lawyer. It just so happens I won the lottery in Nigeria. As soon as the check clears I'm going to make it rain. This will complement my job holding foreign transfer funds in my account.

But seriously, one of the aspects of Distance Learning is that it, in a sense, takes some control away from our local governments and that means Nigeria as well.

A Nigerian faced with the reality of either not receiving an education or receiving an education that is recognized pretty much everywhere other than Nigeria may very well choose the latter regardless of the government's position.

 

This theory has been around a long time. It is the contemporary, Servant-Leadership or more recently Group-Centered Leadership.

 

I think, as a principle, it extends beyond the theoretical.

At a certain point leadership tends to capitulate (usually while trying to save face) when they realize that they exert very little control over the situation.

If I'm King Neuhaus and I declare that all subjects should wear pantaloons I really only have two choices:

1. Vigorously enforce my pro-pantaloons initiative and create sever consequences for non-compliance and/or incentive for compliance
2. Do nothing to enforce the rule and hope my word is strong enough to cause a cultural shift

Things like what Nigeria did often take the form of path 2. The problem is that as fewer and fewer people appear on the streets of Neuhausia wearing pantaloons I now have two further choices:

1. Declare that, upon further study and reflection, it is my royal will that pantaloons no longerbe required (i.e. save face because people were ignoring me anyway and make like the people who refused to wear pantaloons are still in keeping with my royal wishes) or

2. Let people figure out that my decree was toothless and that my decrees can be ignored without consequence

The danger of the latter is obvious for any ruler, be they absolute or democratically elected. The former worries of revolution and the latter worries of losing a revolution. The end result is the same; a loss of power.

It happened a few times in the Navy where off-limits bars were so often filled with sailors and marines, and no amount of negative consequence was enough to reduce those visits, that the CO simply lifted the restriction and took other methods to ensure safety and security.