Every University/ University College has her own criteria for promotion of her academic staff. The major ones known to me are: an expected number of publications; students’ evaluation reports on the lecturer in question and assessment report from the Dean/ Head of Department. From my observations, it appears to me that, when a university is not yet chartered, affiliate universities imposed their promotion criteria on members of University colleges that has not yet chartered. The major questions that arise from these deeds are:
1. Is it possible to have universal criteria for promotion exercises in the academia?
2. Should a potential lecturer of English, for instance, be denied promotion to a Senior lecturer just because his PhD thesis is in the area of Linguistics instead of English?
3. Should a lecturer of French, for instance, who specialized in Sociolinguistics, be denied promotion because not all his publications are in French?
4. Should a PhD holder be denied promotion just because as at the time the promotion exercise, the University Council finds that the said lecturer is teaching a subject other than the one in which he specialized?
5. Is it necessary to state the area of the new position being applied for e.g. Professor in didactics?
administrative practices; promotion criteria, higher education
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