Mentoring Young Academia: A Prerequisite for Scholarly Publishing

Mentoring is a key determinant for quality assurance and effective performance in every organisation for career growth and job satisfaction for both the mentors and the mentees, which will increase the mentee’s academic confidence and boost their writing and publishing skills. It is pertinent to note that the absence of mentoring in higher institutions of learning has been a quandary that needs to be revisited. This paper emphasizes the importance of mentoring programs for young academia as a prerequisite for scholarly publishing. Surveys and several related literatures were analysed to determine what is practiced at different higher institutions of learning concerning mentor and mentee programs and the findings show that the majority of young academia complained about the absence of mentoring programs in their higher institution of learning, which makes the young academia adaptation difficult in most academic environment and hindered their performance. It was suggested that, there should be training and retraining of staff at regular intervals to be abreast of the ever-revolving technology and to enhance the quality of practicum by making use of research-based knowledge, which will boost the quality performance in the education sector.