Union seeks 70-year retirement age for professors

olamide oni

December 30, 2015 5:18 PM

After retiring at the age of 65, these lecturers usually seek employment in Private Universities where they are allowed to work until the age of 70.

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The chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU) chapter, Dr. Adekunle Idris, has suggested that varsity Professors should be allowed to retire at the age of 70, as opposed to 65 which has been the practice.

Dr. Idris, during the Stakeholders’ Forum on ‘A Bill For A Law To Amend The LASU Law, 2004 and other Connected Purposes’ organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly on December 29, said that after retiring at the age of 65, these lecturers usually seek employment in Private Universities where they are allowed to work until the age of 70.

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According to him, some of the professors that are retiring from LASU use their students to conduct researches and they end up short-changing the university.

Idris said that ASUU-LASU had been advocating single-year tenure of five years for the Vice Chancellor of the university and other principal officers of the institution for some time now.

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