21/08/2022
The direct implication of no work no pay policy in the present circumstance is that 2021/2022 session stands cancelled or at least a semester and whenever the University resumes, they are resuming on a clean slate of the 2022/23 session or the second semester of the last session afresh for the following reasons:
Spilled-over students whose results are yet to get approval from Senate would not be attended to because these are academic works in arrears of (the 2021/2022 session) that government does not want to pay for.
Final year students who have written exams or are yet to write will remain on campus because their scripts will not be marked and the outstanding semester exams will not be conducted. These are academic works in arrears (2021/2022) that government does not want to pay for.
For other levels (1 to 3 or to 5 & 6 as the case may be), each student should be ready for an extra one year. If exams have been conducted for the second semester, then those students have one semester more. But if the results of the first semester have not been released, then one extra year. This is because no academic work in arrears would be attended to because the government does not want to pay for the conclusion of that academic year.
The rules of engagement of University lecturers baring some exceptional variation based on tripartite legs of; Teaching 15 – 40%, Research 40%, and Community services 20%.
So when lecturers go on strikes, it’s mainly the teaching/conduct or grading of examinations aspect that is affected, in fact, we have some academics that do not teach at all or do not have course/students to teach in some semesters.
The Minister does not seems to understand the operations of the University’s academic calendar system, rules of engagement of academics globally as well as the ILO’s concept of social justice as it affects Industrial dispute resolution.
Prof Olaiya Abideen
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
