IMMINENT STUDENTS ASPIRING FOR RAPID CHANGE

Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) is task with no doubt, creating and impacting knowledge in students that intends to study journalism as a whole. It’s common to find students on campus been hard-working to be outstanding journalists.

Although, the school aims at improving academic recognition of National Diploma, Higher National Diploma, Post Graduate Diploma and period of study in the practice of this noble profession.

On other occasions, most students find it difficult to cope with how the school functions in particular, which reflects their academic and professional performance. More so, some students call this great citadel of learning an “advance secondary school” due to inadequate social activities on the campus.

Prior to this prospect, the school management approves a-week for students designed activity, which a former student of NIJ Chiemeka Chidozie said in the NIJ professional training publication that, it’s unbelievable that the student week can be granted in NIJ.

There were only a handful of students that are referred to as fun seekers, and also some lecturers on campus. In any case, the management of the institute had served them a notice to be careful of irrelevant familiarity and irresponsible act among them, which suggested that too much familiarity should be placed in minimum.

For sure, one can easily tell from how the school runs it programme, that few social activities are held for students in the campus by the management; compare to academic activities which is the primary assignment given to the school.

For a right thinking man, the social aspect is an integral part of human life because every man is a social animal. Thus, if any man is denied of this enjoyment, he feels disconnected from the entire globe and feels nostalgic. Life seems solitary, sedentary, and brutish like such life in a state of nature in the dark ages to him.

A student of National Diploma, who claims anonymous, stressed that “the school is presently boring to everyone; just lectures only, even majority of the students call it a bore-doom. The school itself needs to ice-up our social life a bit to make it interesting and for NIJ to be a better place for students to study”.

It’s of no doubt and very obvious that students at such advance level are still treated like kindergarten pupils; for example a national diploma 2 students, Olaniyan Solomon said, “We are being compelled to leave the campus not long after the school hour, which is not meant to be so, because majority of us are engaged in doing one thing or other, either academically or socially.

In an ideal institution, you are not expecting students to be taken as those of under age; owing to the reason that it is believed that whoever gains admission into any higher institution of learning is not under age. As a matter of fact, irrespective of the laid down rules and regulations of any tertiary institution, the authority should in every essence deem it fit to take into cognizance that, students should be treated, approached, addressed, and recognised as adults”.

Perhaps, most students try to flirt around, to get themselves relief and more relax which has added some distinctiveness among their fellow colleagues. Observing the school at this time, students are often time sitting under the coconut tree, playing football and even hanging around with their love once, for all work without play makes Jack a dull boy.

On a standard level as this, college student are not meant to be treated like the management of the school has been doing. Speaking in retrospect, even the security guards harass students that intend to give funny excuses when they are asked to go out of the school compound.

The fact is that they are old enough to make decisions on their own, choose what is right at the right time, and know when is good for them to go home. Not until anybody come to make a vivid instruction for students to leave.

He further noted that, every higher institution of learning students is believed to have got an IQ that is sound to withstand the academic stress therein.

Many students don’t like how the school is constructed and been a Nigeria premier Monotechnic; it’s expected to be glamorous and well equipped to make the practice of skilled journalism less laborious and more interesting.

It should have made a complete sense, if the school itself or even the students are practicing core journalism in the campus, to enhance the professional performance and the true commitment for the job; the school is not opportune to own either a functioning broadcast station or any newspaper either within the school premise or even outside.

A lecturer noted during his class of recent that, a newspaper itself; aside from paying it reporters, require considerable financial layout, there are so many factors attached to it regarding the number of students that will buy the publication, because “We are all expected to make profit”.

The school needs to balance up the academic standard with the social standard to make the school worth studying and interesting for students on campus.