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, âAs you are all aware, the ranking of the universities were out, and you could see that ATBU performed abysmallyâ.
Professor Fatima Sawa, added that, âSome of the things that affected us are things that we considered as not very important. For instance, we donât site our research work, we prefer to site research from outside, we donât upload our research work on Google scholar, so we are not visibleâ.
According to her, âWe also do not have collaboration, we donât have international students, we donât have international lecturers and our students to staff ratio performance, this are some of the criteria that were used and we are having issues thereâ.
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
