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Prof Joseph Ushie is the Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and an award-winning poet. He talks to GODFREY GEORGE about his life and career
You recently became a professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in your university. What do these mean to you?
First, thank you very much for the recognition. Well, ‘professor’ is a title. Being a professor without the knowledge to back it up is bad news. A professor is supposed to contribute solutions to the problems in society. As far as I am concerned, what matters to me is not the title, but how much funds I can put into the bank of knowledge, so when anyone wants to withdraw from that bank, there will be something in the account. What this means for me, ultimately, is that I must keep working as if I were still working towards the title. I should not be
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Last week, trade unions at CaixaBank, Spain’s largest retail bank, agreed to the loss of 6,452 jobs, following token warning strikes and face-saving “negotiations” with management.
The unions and management announced they reached an agreement on July 1, only two days after a 24-hour strike which, according to the unions, shut down over 90 percent of the bank’s branches in Spain. The unions called only one other whole-day stoppage, on June 22, following a number of one-hour or half-hour protests.