It also called for improve funding of education and provision of critical infrastructure for learning rather than establishing new institutions.
Speaking on, ‘Engineering education in Nigeria, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ delivered by the Professor of Electronics Engineering observed that engineering education started from Yaba Higher College where there has been a phenomenal growth in both the number of students and the numbers of universities in the country.
Salawu said it has been predicted that within the next ten years, increasing number of students will turn to granting Massively Open Online Courses , causing a major shakeup in high education. In his speech, the outgoing President of the Academy, Alexander Ogedegbe, said the academy under his leadership integrated the goals, principles and procedures of the academy’s five years strategic plan into its activities. This, he said resulted into restructuring process that allowed all the existing Council committees, refocus them on its core obligation concerning current national priorities and empower them with specific terms of reference derived from the strategic plan.
The new president of the academy, Prof. Azikiwe Onwualu, pledged to carry on with laudable plan already set out by the Academy, provide critical knowledge inputs to public policy and chart new path for the body.