Federal University Otuoke (FUOTUOKE) 14th Inaugural Lecture
Speaking as the Chief Host and Chairman of the Lecture, the Vice Chancellor of FUO, Professor Teddy Charles Adias in his opening remarks said the series will continue as long as the University exists and will be a platform for Professors to showcase what they have been teaching together with researches conducted to promote and enhance knowledge for societal development.
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Federal University Otuoke held her 14th Inaugural Lecture at the East Campus Skills Centre Auditorium with fanfare.
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Speaking as the Chief Host and Chairman of the Lecture, the Vice Chancellor of FUO, Professor Teddy Charles Adias in his opening remarks said the series will continue as long as the University exists and will be a platform for Professors to showcase what they have been teaching together with researches conducted to promote and enhance knowledge for societal development.
The Inaugural Lecturer Professor Pac Ordu in his presentation on the topic “Breaking The Barriers In Tertiary Education Curriculum Contexts Delivery: The New Entrebusiness Education Solution”, defined Business Education from a Dahiru perspective as learning by doing occupational programme that focuses at the provision of practical skills to students. He went on to inform the audience that entrepreneurship education was introduced by Shigeru Fijii in Kobe University, Japan in 1938 which spread to Universities in other parts of the world before being adopted as Business Education in Nigerian Universities in 2006.
The Inaugural Lecturer informed that there was a form of informal business education before the advent of the Colonial Masters, who brought their system of education with religious bias to prepare people for white collar jobs to serve their interest.
Professor Pac Ordu noted that there was nothing like unemployment then, because the moment students graduate, they became self-employed.
He posited that vocational training gave rise to Business Education adding that from the early ’80s and beyond, students were made to undertake vital business education courses such as type writing and shorthand, and bright students were recruited from school. He wondered what went wrong that the jobs are no longer available.
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According to him, from the foregoing it means the curriculum is no longer relevant as jobs are no longer being created.
He advocated for a change of the current curriculum as its failure has been evident in order to move from consumer students to produce producer graduates.
Speaking further, Professor Pac Ordu stated that series of studies have been carried out in several institutions on the creation of jobs by students and noted that many of the jobs manned by fresh graduates in USA were created by students when they were in schools emphasizing that 20% of students graduated into jobs created by them while in school. The Chinese took advantage of the USA experience and have replicated it in their country saying that laboratories in China are like factories.
The Professor of Business Education said Secondary School Students and young people are producing cellphones, computers, laptops, transistor radios among other gadgets and have become major exporters of these products.
The Inaugural Lecture Laureate observed that one common thing among researchers is to present the field reports and expect government to implement it and urged researchers not to be contented to use their reports only to gain promotion.
According to him, the blame game between Government and ASUU, Professional Institutions , parents, and vice versa should be addressed in order to promote effective learning, teaching and conduct of research to migrate the students from theory learning to practical’s that will empower them to create jobs.
He suggested that something urgent should be done to review the curriculum to suit current realities otherwise the programmes will soon exit and painted a gloomy picture of students becoming “Yahoo Yahoos”. (Dubious People).
In his recommendations, the 14th Inaugural Lecture Laureate stated that Lecturers should learn and unlearn to teach students from classrooms to the industries as obtainable in China .While presenting his contributions to knowledge, Professor Pac Ordu stated that his Book , “The Actor of Change in the 2020 Curriculum of NCCE” which contains chapters on ; instituting the annual entrepreneurship students exhibition, creating practical teaching of entrepreneurship model, consulting for NCCE on new entrepreneurship roadmap, introduction of informal apprenticeship to run consecutively with formal curriculum among others. This has empowered students with practical skills before graduation.
He expressed gratitude to God for life, protection, provision and bringing him so far in his career.
Others appreciated include Professor Teddy Charles Adias for facilitating his migration to FUO in 2020 and the opportunity offered him to present the 14th Inaugural Lecture, the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Professor Seth Accra Jaja who employed him as a Senior Lecturer in 2020, Professor Chris Onyema, and others within and outside the University, FUO staff and family members that supported him to attain great heights in his educational pursuit.
Professor Teddy Charles Adias in his closing remarks described the 14th Inaugural Lecture Laureate as a man that rose from a humble background by dint of hard work and stated that Management has noted his postulations on paradigm shift to teach students from consumer to become producer graduates.
The Omoku Development Initiative led by the Chairman, Mr. Amaechi Obuah
presented a Plaque to Professor Pac Ordu in recognition of his contributions to educational growth in the country and for making his community proud.
The Deputy Director, Centre for Continuous Education, Dr. Charles Ikimi read the citation of Professor Pac Ordu and described him as an innovative academic giant with track records of achievements.
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The Chairman, Inaugural Lecture Committee, Professor Ihuoma Adekunle gave the Vote of thanks, while the Man O’ War Crocodile Combatant Command of FUO was on the band stand and provided high level parade which added colour to the event.
