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Wednesday 29, September 2004 HOME | back to previous page Innovation is the answer to varsity crisis, says UNN V.C By Sunny Igboanugo Metro Editor   It is only through innovative ideas that the current crisis plaguing the nation’s tertiary institutions, especially the university system can be solved, Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Chinedu O. Nebo has said. The newly appointed helmsman of one of the nation’s foremost universities, told Daily Independent on Tuesday that one of the few options available to redeem the parlous situation in the nation’s ivory towers, was the ability of the system to look inwards and tinker with new ideas that would be suitable to the changing trend all over the world. For instance, he said, the universities needed to be logged on to the rave of the moment - the Internet as the panacea for such internal inadequacies as shortage of classrooms for the ever-growing students population as well as teaching, learning and research, adding that putting the UNN on the information superhighway, to commence the E-learning process, was one of the immediate preoccupations of his administration. “As you know the university is located in the rural setting, which means that a lot of commerce and activities and technologies bypass us. The only way we can catch up with what is happening, not only in our country, but internationally, since the world is shrinking to a global village, is to have this E-learning project, where our students would be able from their homes, from their refectories, from their libraries, from their classrooms, their laboratories and their workshops, have100percent access to the internet, 24 hours a day. “That way, students would eventually even be able to take lectures on the internet, do their assignments and submit by the internet, have the grades given by the internet, ask professors and lecturers questions on the internet, and have responses on the internet so that the situation where the very lean facilities for classrooms we have will not be overstretched,” he said.       Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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