NUC Scraps PGDE Training For Lecturers With PhDs

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has adopted pedagogical training as an alternative to postgraduate diploma in education (PGDE) for academics with PhDs.

Director of Research, Innovation and Information Technology in NUC, Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf, who made the above disclosure in Abuja at the end of a weeklong training for lecturers on pedagogical skills, jointly organised by NUC and Nile University in collaboration with University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, said NUC does not believe university professors needed to acquire PGDE to be good lecturers, adding that though some opinion leaders have tried to force PGDE on the Nigerian University System, NUC has adopted Pedagogical training as an alternative route to PGDE.

The NUC director further maintained that over 80 lecturers took part in the weeklong course, adding that the training was one of the series of steps taken by the commission to ensure that over time; more Nigerian lectures are exposed to the modern method of teaching in line with global best practices.

Also speaking, the University of Sussex Director of International Recruitment and Development, Prof Richard Follet, described the training as absolutely astounding by the quality of participants who engaged in everything that was done.

Follet said the training was a new venture between University of Sussex and NUC, working with different universities, adding that in the past, the research centre at the University Of Sussex Centre Of International Education historically carried out a lot of research in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.

Culled from Daily Times.