Amadi, who described mentoring as an essential aspect of good scholarship, said it hardly existed in the nation’s ivory towers.
The varsity teacher said this while delivering a paper entitled, ‘Micro Organisms: Indispensable Tools of Science,’ at the 27th inaugural lecture of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
He said history had shown that people could only achieve greatness by learning from those better than them.
Amadi observed that it was difficult to find younger lecturers following the footsteps of their seniors, who had achieved a lot in the past.
He said, “Our younger colleagues no longer respect their seniors, including those who once supervised them. The result is that mentorship ends abruptly and gives way to bad scholarship.
“Some young colleagues from the outset reject mentorship because they are in a hurry to make it.”
Describing merit as an important assessment tool in the university system, Amadi stated that merit was necessary in order to guard against anything that could degrade the system in the award of degrees.
He decried a situation where universities awarded degrees to those who did not deserve them, adding that the university system must fight against such an ugly trend.
“A system where degrees are awarded to less qualified or unqualified friends, without recourse to merit; where theses are written for students at a fee among others, cannot augur well for scholarship.
“We in the academia must divorce ourselves from the syndrome and strive to fight this cancer that has eaten up into the fabrics of the academia,” he stressed.
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