alutacontinua: Co-ordinators, can we ask questions now?

The professors and lecturers on the other hand,would also see the increase in tuition fees as a chance to double their efforts. They would have to step up their game in order to convince the students and their parents that the quality of education being turned out is commensurate to the huge amount being paid for the service

niyi20: .
For the past decades none of our universities have been rated among the best 10 in Africa not to talk of the world at large .

alutacontinua: @king94, you wrote:



How exactly is this feasible?
The increase doesn't necessarily increase in the pay of the lecturers, how exactly do you think an increase in fees would make them increase their efforts?

king94: True. However, the lecturers would endeavour to increase their efforts because the students now pay more for knowledge. The lecturers would understand that they need to double their efforts to give the students the quality that they required when they paid huge fees.

alutacontinua: To both speakers;

You have both stated that an increase in tuition fees would guarantee a better academic environment.

However, looking at it critically and practically;
State universities in Nigeria tend to pay much more than Federal Universities...at least, I'm sure schools like LAUTECH and LASU pay more than schools like OAU and UI. However, there is nothing like better academic environment in these schools. Infact, while schools like OAU and UI tend to still provide 'places that look like hostels', most state universities cannot boast of such. Academic standard in the federal universities still beat the state universities' standard hands down. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS?

The academic standard of private institutions cannot be compared to that of federal universities inspite of the increased tuition fees. How do you rationalize this with your submissions that increased tuition fees would guarantee better universities?

king94: I live close to LASU. There has been an improvement in the infrastrustural and educational standard of the school, according to what my friends there say. We must not rush to compare them with Federal universities because they are still building up.They can't reach a specific standard in a day.Give them a few years more and the revolution shall be complete.

alutacontinua:

And how does increase in tuition fees change this fact?

alutacontinua:

The students are not paying to the lecturers, what exactly makes them increase their efforts


For example, there was a drastic increase in the Acceptance fee of OAU some semesters ago, I think about N15,000 increase (more than 100%) if I can still remember, but I didn't see any increase in effort of any of the lecturers. They still had the same 'Idon'twanttotalkaboutit' attitude they always have!

alutacontinua: To both speakers;

You have both stated that an increase in tuition fees would guarantee a better academic environment.

However, looking at it critically and practically;
State universities in Nigeria tend to pay much more than Federal Universities...at least, I'm sure schools like LAUTECH and LASU pay more than schools like OAU and UI. However, there is nothing like better academic environment in these schools. Infact, while schools like OAU and UI tend to still provide 'places that look like hostels', most state universities cannot boast of such. Academic standard in the federal universities still beat the state universities' standard hands down. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS?

The academic standard of private institutions cannot be compared to that of federal universities inspite of the increased tuition fees (judging by the university ranking for 2013). How do you rationalize this with your submissions that increased tuition fees would guarantee better universities?

alutacontinua:

Fine, I agree with the academic environment part, how about the academic standard?

alutacontinua:

The students are not paying to the lecturers, what exactly makes them increase their efforts


For example, there was a drastic increase in the Acceptance fee of OAU some semesters ago, I think about N15,000 increase (more than 100%) if I can still remember, but I didn't see any increase in effort of any of the lecturers. They still had the same 'Idon'twanttotalkaboutit' attitude they always have!