Emeritus Professor Pai OBANYAInstitute of EducationUniversity of Ibadan,

Nigeria

Situating our deliberations in a much broader context

Focusing on the sustainability of our efforts

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As the going gets tough, the tough gets tougher

Creativity and Innovation: Where the answer lies

Igniting and Sustaining Innovative Funding for Universities

The Central Message

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Colonial Period Regional Universities Overseas OutletsHigh SelectivityControllable numbers

Immediate Post-independence

Movement towards national universitiesEuphoria

More of national funding/external aid boom

The Lost Decade

Multiple national universities

Massification/diversification/vocationalizationLooming funding crisis

The Democracy Movement Decade

Unplanned expansion Serious quality threatsIncreasing social demandIncreasing threats to university autonomy

The 21st Century Private university boom

Hyper-massificationSevere inpust decline

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INTERNAL◦ Increasing social demand◦ Steady funding decline◦ Increased denial of autonomy◦ Restive staff associations◦ Declining quality-inputs/processes/outcomes

EXTERNAL◦ Employability◦ Globalisation ◦ Decline of foreign assistance

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SINCE Every corrective response would have a price tag BUT Government has been the sole provider AND Funding patterns have been a combination of Inadequate Inappropriate Fluctuating

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INADEQUATEProvisions well below requirements

INAPPROPRIATENon-targeted funding that neglects the essentials

FLUCTUATINGWhims and caprices approaches to government budgeting

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SUSTAINABLE FUNDING◦ Adequate◦ Appropriate◦ Timely◦ Targeted

FOLLOWING THE PROCESSES OF◦ Scientific /consultative budgeting ◦ Planned development of higher education◦ Political will/commitment◦ Transparency/Accountability at all levels

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We often use the words "creativity" and "innovation" interchangeably

but we should not Creativity is about ‘’coming up with ideas’’ while innovation is about "bringing ideas to

life’’ Organizations that do not innovate

effectively may be destroyed by those who do.

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How to Develop, Apply, Sustain, CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE RESPONSES To the challenge of Sustainable funding of universities.

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A service-intensive university Moving from being an Ivory Tower to a

social engineering laboratory A philosophy of responsive social

engagement

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Enlarged partnerships Participatory process of strategic planning An entrepreneurial posture

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Marriage of academic and business governance and management models

Pursuing university tripartite mission with larger society as major determiner and determinant

Development-oriented curricula, embedding 21st century skills.

OUTREACH as functional units of University management

University teacher re-orientation (next slide)

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Require Business model of Designing thinking And A culture of innovation at the institutional level Design thinking has three main phases Inspiration-ideation-implementation Cannot grow in an atmosphere of weak institutional

governance and Zero-level academic freedom

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