While other Universities in the country are doing everything academically possible to attain excellence and high rankings, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi is not moving with the tide, thereby remaining stagnant, IgbereTV reports.
The lamentation was made by management of the University which attributed its recent abysmal performance in the university ranking by the National University Commission (NUC), to lack of siting of research work, non upload of research work on Google scholar and lack of collaboration, among others.
Director of Research, Innovation and Development of the University, Professor Fatima Sawa while speaking during a Step-down workshop on Grants Winning proposal writing for ATBU at the Gubi permanent campus of the University said that, “As you are all aware, the ranking of the universities were out, and you could see that ATBU performed abysmally”.
Professor Fatima Sawa, added that, “Some of the things that affected us are things that we considered as not very important. For instance, we don’t site our research work, we prefer to site research from outside, we don’t upload our research work on Google scholar, so we are not visible”.
According to her, “We also do not have collaboration, we don’t have international students, we don’t have international lecturers and our students to staff ratio performance, this are some of the criteria that were used and we are having issues there”.
Fatima Sawa recalled that similar workshop took place sometime in September, involving institutions in the Northeastern states of Nigeria in anticipation of the advert for the national research fund of TetFund and also for other possible accessible research grants
