Obafemi Awolowo University is a ‘great’ institution that has over the years developed a culture of glorifying students’ failure.
The school is one of the Universities
that rarely produce first class students and the reason for this is best
known to the lecturers.
Some lecturers in Nigerian Universities
like to form bad guys with their students and they do that with
first-class arrogance. A lot of students have had encounters with
lecturers telling them they will not graduate, the lenient one would
promise you a poor very grade irrespective of your performance in the
test.
Lecturers like these according to the
students abound in OAU and they wear their principle glorifying failure
like a badge of honour. Graduating with first-class from Obafemi Awolowo
University is one of the most difficult things to achieve in Nigeria.
It is almost impossible because some
departments in the University have developed a culture of not producing
first class graduates.
While other departments produce
graduates year in year out, these departments have proved that first
class award is not a for everyone in their domain, not even for the most
brilliant students.
Recently, Aarinola Olaiya broke a
28-year-old record in the University as she emerged the first student of
Surgery to graduate with distinction in 28 years.
This prompted a conversation based on
the conclusion of a Twitter Nigeria influencer that lecturers in a
faculty or department that does not produce a first-class student in
five years should be fired.
A lot of people reacted to this tweet and called out the department in OAU where it is difficult to make first class.
So, if you are considering admission
into these departments, you have to prepare yourself for the culture.
The culture of glorifying failure in OAU.
1. English:
The OAU English department has not
produced any first class student in more than three decades. According
to a student of the department, the last distinction graduate of the
department is now an old senior lecturer in the department. And ever
since, no student has been dimmed brilliant enough to merit the award.
2. Geology:
If making first class in the study of
the earth and its structure was a passport to heaven, no student
studying Geology in OAU would make heaven.
It is that certain. So certain that the
lecturers usually prepare the minds of the students that they can not
get first class no matter how brilliant they are. Geology is one of the
most dreaded departments in this university and for decades, no student
has been celebrated in the department.
3. Surgery:
In Surgery department, it is a good news
that no student has been able to make first class for the past 28
years. This seems to be a department where making first class is
seriously frowned at.
Unfortunately, for the department, a
student of the department, Aarinola Olaniyan recently broke the jinx and
her fellow students could not but celebrate her victory over the
department.
4. Political Science:
This department has also failed to
produce any first class graduate in so many years. This culture has even
made some students to give up on chasing first class because first
class has not happened to any student in the past and is not likely to
happen in future.
5. Chemistry:
According to a graduate of this
department, graduating with distinction in Chemistry is not as terrible
as it is in Geology but it is rare to come across a first-class student
in the department.
It takes like three to four years to see
a first class graduate in this department, it is a serious issue but
not as serious as the case in Geology and medical faculty.
However, this is not to say Nigerian
Universities should distribute first class award to every Tom Dick and
Harry, nevertheless, the students deserve to be rewarded appropriately
for their efforts rather than victimizing them because the department or
faculty wants to maintain a record of no first class.
Source: Pulse.ng
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