The School of Business in Amsterdam University, Netherlands, has stirred reactions with a post on its website which tends to underrate degree certificates from African Universities.
The School of Business in Amsterdam University, Netherlands, said in particular, “An African bachelor’s degree is generally the equivalent of two years of academic education in the Netherlands. “For eligibility, applicants with an African bachelor’s degree (except for South-Africa and Ghana) will need a bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in the field of Economics and Business, in order to be eligible for one of our M.Sc programmes.” Following this, the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) kicked against such supercilious argument. Its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview with The Punch on Tuesday, said the struggles of the union for repositioning Nigeria’s public universities for global competitiveness were aimed at preventing and countering such a damaging report from Amsterdam. He said, “Despite the various challenges confronting our universities, Nigerian graduates, who enrolled for higher degrees in universities in Europe and American universities, are excelling in all fields of academic pursuits. “While we acknowledge that there are great scholars in Ghanaian and South African Universities, a close study of leading scholars in universities in the two countries will reveal a heavy presence of Nigerian academics.”
The school however, as the report indicated, “made effort to edit some of the information afterwards. The spokesperson for the school, Marja Meer, in an online report said the information on the school’s website was incorrect. She also apologised for the inaccuracies.”
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