EMPOWERING THE VICE-CHANCELLORS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CLIMATIC CHANGE IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The importance of university education needs not be over-stressed. It prepares the individual for life and helps to reform the society. The potential of university education system in Nigeria to fulfill these responsibilities is frequently thwarted by long-standing problems of climate change and empowerment of universities Vice-Chancellors which have generated a lot of heated debates in recent times among education stakeholders. This paper examined the climate change and management of climate change in Nigerian universities. The paper also looked at influence of climate change on university education and factors responsible for climate change. To meet the various challenges recommendations were given towards empowering the Vice-Chancellors for effective management of climatic change in Nigerian universities.