WHY NOUN LECTURERS ARE NOT PART OF ASUU STRIKE, VC EXPLAINS

....As institution graduates 25 inmates, 22, 250 others Saturday

THE Vice Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria,NOUN,Prof. Olufemi Peters,has explained that academic staff of the university were not part of the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU because of the university’s structure.

Prof. Peters also said students of the school have special motivation to read and study,a development he said, made the university discourage its staff from joining the national strike.

This even as he said they “have every reason to have unions among themselves.”

 The NOUN Vice Chancellor,who spoke, Tuesday,at a media briefing ahead of the school’s 11th Convocation ceremony billed for Saturday, further explained that unlike the conventional universities,his institution cannot embark on strike attributing to its structure. 

" In regard to ASUU agitations, yes, we do have agitations, that is normal in any human association but these universities do not accept that for the fact that our students are different from conventional universities,”he said.

Prof. Peters added:“Our students have special motivation to read and study because of that we discourage our staff from joining the national strike but they have every reason to have unions among themselves but we have restricted that because our students are not students who are different.”

On why graduates of the school had not been mobilised for the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps,NYSC,he explained that the management was in talk with the management of the scheme on the issue.