Jarus:


Jeojonah,

1, Kindly substantiate you claim that Academic Board of institutions have anything to do with finances of institutions.

2, Remind me of what academics has got to do with subsidy removal.

Thanks.

For the first question, I want to emphatically say that Nigerian higher institutions do have active and workable measures that remit the tuition fees being paid by students, directly into the federal government account. Those monies will have to pass through the school academic and management boards where they deduct, parts for the scratch cards, ICT management and all the deductible.

For the second question, I made an instance, the tuition fee is only a minor percentage of the money required to run the school and can be said the federal government is paying the major part.. Otherwise referred to as being 'subsidized'. If the said tuition fee subsidy is removed by hiking the school fees, something can happen to the money realized as it do occur in Nigeria.

Ehisdan,

In most countries, especially non-English-speaking countries, there are no or only nominal tuition fees for all forms of education, including university and higher education which is the pivot of this debate.

You seem to know more about the educational system of "non-English" speaking countries. Kindly tell us two Francophone countries using the "nominal tuition fee"? We need examples for further research.

Judges can do well, to turn in the results to




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Xynerise
Jarus

Ehisdan did you see that?

xynerise:
Ehisdan,


You seem to know more about the educational system of "non-English" speaking countries. Kindly tell us two Francophone countries using the "nominal tuition fee"? We need examples for further research.

France: a French country and Germany

ehisdan:
France: a French country and Germany

I asked for Francophone......anyways, thank you.

Hi Ehisdan,

With the state of infrastructure in our higher institutions, what is the alternative source of funding if tuition fees should not be raised?

ehisdan:
Good day the creator of this Forum, the moderator, panel of judges, my co-debaters and fellow nairanders viewing this thread at home.

My name is Ehisdan an electrical/electronic student of Auchi polytechnic, Auchi. I am writing to oppose the notion ‘’Increase of tuition fees in Nigerian Universities is necessary for a better educational standard’’.


I start my opposition by first explaining the sentences ‘’tuition fee and educational standard. ‘’Tuition fees are charged by educational institutions in some countries to assist with funding of staff and faculty, course offerings, laboratory equipment, computer systems, libraries, facility up keep and to provide a comfortable student learning experience’’. While educational standard define the knowledge and skills students should possess in their educational carrier. I believe with this explanation many will support that there is a need for tuition fee increment forgetting the word ‘’assist’’. Since the fee is to assist the necessary body or board in charge of education why should there be hike on the fee? In other countries of the world tuition fee increment is a little addition to its original amount while in Nigeria it is a hike. In most countries, especially non-English-speaking countries, there are no or only nominal tuition fees for all forms of education, including university and higher education which is the pivot of this debate. To back up my stand, are few of the many points outlined below:


Corruption: Nigeria has been so drown in corruption that nothing is worth writing good for/about the country. Corruption has affected the way funds are allocated within the national/state budgets diverting expenditures from education to high kickback areas thereby using hike in tuition fee to cover up. Former EFCC chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, at Babcock University convocation ceremony, acknowledged that education is our destiny in the journey towards freedom and progress, but as reality of our nation has shown he warned: “If we do not build this project of education on the important values of honesty, transparency and accountability, education itself can become a rapacious, self-consuming monster that nurtures nightmarish visions”. He revealed that Nigeria has spent over N1.1 trillion on education in the past five years – “a whopping budget that appears to have deepened more private pockets than any national institution”. If Government money can be embezzled what do you think will happen to the money gotten from the masses? So increment of tuition fee will only be to enrich to pocket of some certain people in power.


Financial barriers to education impact: merit and desire to education should determine who goes to the university, when the ability to pay becomes a deciding factor, then our country loses the chance to benefit from the skills and capabilities of its citizens. Many are on the streets that are supposed to be on the four walls of our tertiary institution but are unable due to high tuition fee. The first decade after independence, there was free-flowing access to education at all levels – primary, secondary and tertiary (university specifically) and the standard of education was very much ok. My mathematics lecturer, who happens to be a beneficiary of this free education in his cause of lecture once, told us that the standard of education in Nigeria has gone down the lane. He said and I quote: ‘’this is not school you people are attending, during our time everything was in order, well composed by the government, when corruption has not Crip into the government of this country. We were taking three times free meal a day, the government is the one providing our textbooks and notebooks and everything needed to standardise education were readily made available by the government’’. Then I said to myself will this ever happen again, all these were possible without assistant of tuition fee. Now that there is assistant through tuition fee everything has turn upside down. Which means if tuition fee is increased more than what it is now the education system in Nigeria University will totally fall apart.


Tuition fee increment is not what universities in Nigeria need for standard education but government proper agenda toward the standard of tertiary institution: Education of this country should be the responsibility of the government, especially at the University level by providing the necessary needs for better educational standard in the country. This is the only way the education sector in the country can grow and compete with other countries of the world. If it’s swerved to tuition fee, a good standard will never be attained because the higher the fee the lower the number of people who can afford it.


High tuition fee is not a determinant of better educational standard: Countries like Finland, Austria, France, Germany, to mention but few have a better educational standard compared to Nigeria, their tuition fee is low. Another example is some of the universities and polytechnics in Nigeria whose tuition fee is low yet their academic standard is better than that of the universities whose tuition fees are high, the likes of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Benin (UNIBEN), Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, and University of Ibadan (UI). These are the best Universities and polytechnic in Nigeria yet their tuition fee is at the lower rate.


Education is a right not a privilege: high tuition fee in the name of a better educational standard will prompt education to be a privilege in which only the rich will be able acquire it. In 1977 the government of Nigeria declared that education is an instrument of national development. If cost of acquiring this instrument is a burden on the people of the country and only the rich are able to overcome it how then will the country develop? The need for low tuition fee is very necessary so that there will be equality of educational acquisition.


Having written all these, I draw the cotton of closure for the time being, with believe in my heart that I have bring to your understanding the reasons why ‘’Increase in tuition fees in Nigeria universities is not necessary for a better educational standard’’
Thank you.

References
Vanguardngr.com -- boosting access to education
Policynote.ca
Education.stateuniversity.com
Dictionary.reference.com

xynerise:

I asked for Francophone......anyways, thank you.

France and Canada

Hi JoeJonah,
I stand to be corrected, I believe your argument did not lay emphasis on only Federal/State universities? If yes, in a situation where there is an increase in tax, Naira devaluation and other economic instability problems, how would the private universities fund their projects in school without an increase in tuition fee?

Joejonah:
Good day the owner of this wonderful forum, the coordinators of the debate, our unbiased judges, efficient moderators and super moderators, my erudite Co debaters, fellow nairalanders, students present, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is jeojonah, the first representative of Auchi polytechnic, Auchi and I write to oppose the motion which states that “increase of tuition fees in Nigerian Universities is necessary for better educational standard”, with the points outlined below.

There is no correlation between the amount you pay and the quality/standard you get in this our Corruption sick governmental establishment. The above statement is prompted by the current monetary mismanagement in this country, so increasing the tuition fee will just be a plot and conspiracy to enrich the academic board of the institution and anyone that doubts this should write for the expenditure of monies realized from the fuel subsidy removal in 2012 as the said little fee being paid for our academics could be likened/referred to as being subsidized. It will be a weakeness on our part forgetting why 10 higher institutions in Nigeria is currently being probed by EFCC.

The facilities in our institutions, is it being utilized to its greatest efficiency? I believe ‘’No’’ will be the answer anyone that genuinely passed through the four walls of our institutions will give. And this is the major thing that must be put in place if standard is to be mentioned; the morals of our lecturers, their attitude to work, their passion to impact knowledge, the need to better our darling nation Nigeria. And it's very unfortunate that any of this can't be related to tuition fee the students are paying but government policies. Increase in standard is a product of the personality involved not the amount you pay to get it, hence high standard education are not bought by students but earned. This left me wondering how increased tuition fee will stop our corrupt lecturers from compromising standards by allowing "blocking" to eat deep into them.

Taking it to economic implications, in a country where the minimum wage is N18,000 / month and an average Nigerian will have to accumulate as much as two months’ salary to pay for the current tuition of just a child in the University and some have up to four children to train at a time. This is why I concluded that if the fees are hiked in an attempt to raised standard as being supported by my opponent, is nothing but a plot to economically stratify most Nigerian (the poor) of the benefits of education.

Nigeria as a developing country, increasing the tuition fee to maintain standard of education will lead to increased drop-outs, loss of opportunity for education, irregular attendance to school and absenteeism by students, exposure to rape and crimes as many students will move out of the school hostel to off campus, others will skip classes to cut cost, Some will combine schooling and doing odd jobs and minimum attention will be paid to studies, hence poor academic performance sets in. Many will be unable to buy text books because of increased fees, no proper power supply to research the Internet; this makes it difficult for students to study when they want. I am wondering the monetary standard that can curb all these menace.
Students will resort to vices In order to cope in the face of fee increased. Many females will go into prostitution, males will go into robbery. These conditions will lend breath to failure in examinations.

I want to quickly add that it is laughable to say that the schools in Europe, United States and other developed countries that offer tuition free education at all levels to its citizens are of less standard, because they choose to practice "education for all" (EFA). This singular act has not only improved their educational structure but reduced illiteracy, crime, and unproductiveness to its minimal level. Continuous increase of tuition fee in our own part will allow Nigeria develop newest acronym "education for the rich" (EFR).

On this note, I want to say that anyone arguing that the tuition fee should be increased for better educational standard in Nigeria, should not be listen to, except maybe the standard we are talking about is to make Nigerian University an association of the rich which I strongly believe it's not.

I hope these few of the numerous reasons why increments of tuition fee in Nigerian Universities will not help in improving standard will convince and shot the thought away from our Hearts.

References

Effect teachers/lecturers has in maintaining standard: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/10/improve-schools-leave-teachers#img-1

Ways to improve educational standard
http://www.edutopia.org/big-ideas-better-schools

Countries offering tuition free education: http://www.study-domain.com/tuition-free-universities-in-finland-germany/

http://europe.graduateshotline.com/free-education.html

Tuition free education
Www.wikipedia.com

Impact of increased fee on University students in Nigeria education, by Dr. (Mrs). Nkechi J. okolie. Merit research journal. February, 2015.
http://www.meritresearchjournals.org/er/content/2015/February/Okoli.pdf

The rational behind increased fee
http://thenationonlineng.net/the-tuition-fee-issue/

Jarus:

Hi Ehisdan,

With the state of infrastructure in our higher institutions, what is the alternative source of funding if tuition fees should not be raised?

Like I wrote before, education is a right not a privilege. The infrastructures u made mention of can be realised through government budget in education and if tuition fee is raised it simply means the running of education is a dependent of the fee which shouldn't be so, and it will be a burden on the masses. UNICEF has more good in our educational system in Nigeria than Government itself. In Nigeria if meeting infrastructural needs is the key then the Government is capable of doing that without placing it a burden on the students in the name of high tuition fee.

Please moderator be patient with us. You know the problem of network in Nigeria.

xynerise:
Hi JoeJonah,
I stand to be corrected, I believe your argument did not lay emphasis on only Federal/State universities? If yes, in a situation where there is an increase in tax, Naira devaluation and other economic instability problems, how would the private universities fund their projects in school without an increase in tuition fee?

May I remind you that the private Universities in Nigeria is owned by individuals or organizations and the sole/their major concern is how to make profit. They do not care if the students have to pay from their blood, business must continue. Fees must be constantly hiked, not just for standard but for their personal benefits and concerned. Besides, private education is for the well to do. No poor Nigerian is found there.

I am very much interested in the bolded. Based on your argument, an increase in tuition fee will motivate students to study harder and also add more value to the degree. Please, kindly name two successful universities in Nigeria currently using that strategy to develop students' intelligence. Also, tell us if the likes of OAU, UNN and other notable Nigerian universities adopted that strategy for them to be the best in Nigeria?

Shynaboy1:
Without any prejudice, it is pertinent to frame up an introductory foundation that one of the leading causes of poor educational standard in Nigeria is inadequate funding of most Nigerian universities. Apart from the undiluted fact that standard infrastructural facilities use to be a moral booster for students, the colossal amount in form of salaries to lecturers will put them in a good frame of mind to teach the students in toto and clarify every grey area in their discipline with the view that the amount is justifiable and commesurable when the former and the latter are being juxtaposed.

Mr Chairman, the meticulous Chief Judge, indefatigable panel of judges, accurate time keeper, distinguished co-debaters, ladies and gentlemen. I am Shynaboy, a student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba who will be swinging his interlocutory pendulum to the supportive side of the motion "INCREASE IN TUITION FEES IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES IS NECESSARY FOR BETTER EDUCATIONAL STANDARD".

Unequivocally, it will be sacrosant to define the words. "Tuition fee" according to the Oxford Advanced Learners' dictionary is "the money that you pay to be taught especially in a college or university". "Education" according to the same source "is the process of teaching, training and learning especially in colleges to improve knowlege and develop skills. Going by this definitions, Educational Standard can be seen as the level of quality in teaching, learning and training to improve knowlege and develop skills. This qualitative training can not be gotten anywhere on a silver platter. In other words, quality in education can only be improved with sustainable funds on ground. However, let us look at some salient points to back up the argument.
First and foremost, the increment of tuition fees in Nigerian universities will assist the government in improving not only the infrastructures but also the apparatuses needed in these moribund universities. As widely known, the government alone can not do everything and if that is the case, an increment in tuition fees alongside government's contribution will augur well in improving educational standard.

Furthermore, the jeopardy of non-payment of lecturers' salaries will be exterminated if this motion is actually embraced. The popular quote "an hungry man is an angry man" comes to play in this regard because even when compelled to do so, an angry man will never give you what you deserve. In comparison to international scene where better educational standard exists, Nigerian lecturers payment are meagre.

Finally, an increment in tuition fees will make degree more valuable. Also it would bring out the seriousness in the students. The "increase in tuition fee" thought will also serve as a motivating factor to the students in the course of their academic journey. This will however improve educational standard in Nigeria.

Before closing the chapter of my argument, I will like to give you an analogy as to why tuition fees should be increased. It is indeed very sad that no Nigerian university was among the top 100 universities in the world, neither is any among the top 10 in Africa. Looking at other countries with standard education, Harvard and Cambridge universities' fees ranges at §47,600 U.S dollar and £38,283 respectively which sums up to a large amount of money when converted to Naira. It is without doubt that increased payment of fees in this universities has improved tremendously their educational standard.

In conclusion, it is necessary to affirm that university education in Nigeria can only be standardized if and only if there is an increment in tuition fees.


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REFERENCES
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tuition-payments
debatewise.org/debates/723-tuition
oxford advanced learners' dictionary
www.ukcisa.org.uk
www.thefreedictionary.com/tuition.

ehisdan:
Please moderator be patient with us. You know the problem of network in Nigeria.

ok

Joejonah:


May I remind you that the private Universities in Nigeria is owned by individuals or organizations and the sole/their major concern is how to make profit. They do not care if the students have to pay from their blood, business must continue. Fees must be constantly hiked, not just for standard but for their personal benefits and concerned. Besides, private education is for the well to do. No poor Nigerian is found there.

Ok, you are saying their priority is not to better their educational standard but to make profit?

xynerise:

Ok, you are saying their priority is not to better their educational standard but to make profit?

Yes most times. This could be seen in their mode of entry, if anyone finds jamb difficult and unaccessible, they embrace the much profit oriented educational institutions that are willing to accept them, even when they are not fit and equipped enough for rigorous tertiary education in Nigeria.

We could also see that a number of them was banned earlier this year by NUC for operating on low standard, despite the high fees leveled on students

Here is the link supporting the claim

Www.dailypost.ng/2015/08/27/nuc-bans-57-illegal-university-in-nigeria-warns-students/

Joejonah:


Yes most times. This could be seen in their mode of entry, if anyone finds jamb difficult and unaccessible, they embrace the much profit oriented educational institutions that are willing to accept them, even when they are not fit and equipped enough for rigorous tertiary education in Nigeria.

Ok, thank you.

xynerise:
I am very much interested in the bolded. Based on your argument, an increase in tuition fee will motivate students to study harder and also add more value to the degree. Please, kindly name two successful universities in Nigeria currently using that strategy to develop students' intelligence. Also, tell us if the likes of OAU, UNN and other notable Nigerian universities adopted that strategy for them to be the best in Nigeria?

first and foremost, it is important to note that Nigeria's educational system is defunct. There's no way an average Nigeria student will go to a university with high fee when he sees others with low fee. This undoubtedly will exterminate any form of motivation in them.
Secondly OAU, UNN, UI and the likes were able to be ranked among the best because of infrastructures, apparatuses needed to teach and study at pace e.t.c. If other universities could get all these(with monies from increased fee), they will attain the height of OAU and others.

Shynaboy1:

There's no way an average Nigeria student will go to a university with high fee when he sees others with low fee.

Do you now accept the fact that low tuition fee attract all to education?? Why then are you advocating that fees should be hike to make Nigeria hopelessly flooded with uneducated youths?

Shynaboy1:

first and foremost, it is important to note that Nigeria's educational system is defunct. There's no way an average Nigeria student will go to a university with high fee when he sees others with low fee. This undoubtedly will exterminate any form of motivation in them.
Secondly OAU, UNN, UI and the likes were able to be ranked among the best because of infrastructures, apparatuses needed to teach and study at pace e.t.c. If other universities could get all these(with monies from increased fee), they will attain the height of OAU and others.

So the infrastructures in these universities were achieved from increased tuition fee?

Joejonah:



Do you now accept the fact that low tuition fee attract all to education?? Why then are you advocating that fees should be hike to make Nigeria hopelessly flooded with uneducated youths?

"what is worth having is worth fighting for". It won't augur well if "half-baked" graduates were made from these universities. What will then be the hope of Nigeria in the future considering the fact that these 'half-baked' graduates are the future of the nation.

fynestboi, mizmacoli are we free to ask our opponent some questions regarding their write up?

xynerise:

So the infrastructures in these universities were achieved from increased tuition fee?

These universities have been in existence for a very long time. There were few federal universities then compared to nowadays which made it easy for the federal(regional then) government to pump money into this universities. An increase in universities' tuition will however lift these "nowadays" universities up to their standard. Then there will be uniformity in these Universities which will subsequently improve educational standard in Nigeria.

ehisdan:
fynestboi, mizmacoli are we free to ask our opponent some questions regarding their write up?

Free

Shynaboy1
Content presentation - 5 Points
Logic of argument- 3
Strength of Fact... - 3.5 Points
Persuasiveness- 3.5 points


Demonstration of Knowledge and Understanding of the topic- 4.5 Points
Total Points = 19.5







JoeJonah(Auchi Poly)
Content presentation - 3.5 Points
Logic of argument- 3
Strength of Fact... - 4 Points
Persuasiveness- 4 points
Demonstration of Knowledge and Understanding of the topic- 5 Points
Total Points = 19.5

Ehisdan(Auchi Poly)
Content presentation - 2.5 Points
Logic of argument- 3
Strength of Fact... - 4 Points
Persuasiveness- 3 points
Demonstration of Knowledge and Understanding of the topic- 4.5 Points
Total Points = 17


TOTAL: 36.5

Doff my fedora!

ehisdan:
Good day the creator of this Forum, the moderator, panel of judges, my co-debaters and fellow nairanders viewing this thread at home.

My name is Ehisdan an electrical/electronic student of Auchi polytechnic, Auchi. I am writing to oppose the notion ‘’Increase of tuition fees in Nigerian Universities is necessary for a better educational standard’’.


I start my opposition by first explaining the sentences ‘’tuition fee and educational standard. ‘’Tuition fees are charged by educational institutions in some countries to assist with funding of staff and faculty, course offerings, laboratory equipment, computer systems, libraries, facility up keep and to provide a comfortable student learning experience’’. While educational standard define the knowledge and skills students should possess in their educational carrier. I believe with this explanation many will support that there is a need for tuition fee increment forgetting the word ‘’assist’’. Since the fee is to assist the necessary body or board in charge of education why should there be hike on the fee? In other countries of the world tuition fee increment is a little addition to its original amount while in Nigeria it is a hike. In most countries, especially non-English-speaking countries, there are no or only nominal tuition fees for all forms of education, including university and higher education which is the pivot of this debate. To back up my stand, are few of the many points outlined below:


Corruption: Nigeria has been so drown in corruption that nothing is worth writing good for/about the country. Corruption has affected the way funds are allocated within the national/state budgets diverting expenditures from education to high kickback areas thereby using hike in tuition fee to cover up. Former EFCC chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, at Babcock University convocation ceremony, acknowledged that education is our destiny in the journey towards freedom and progress, but as reality of our nation has shown he warned: “If we do not build this project of education on the important values of honesty, transparency and accountability, education itself can become a rapacious, self-consuming monster that nurtures nightmarish visions”. He revealed that Nigeria has spent over N1.1 trillion on education in the past five years – “a whopping budget that appears to have deepened more private pockets than any national institution”. If Government money can be embezzled what do you think will happen to the money gotten from the masses? So increment of tuition fee will only be to enrich to pocket of some certain people in power.


Financial barriers to education impact: merit and desire to education should determine who goes to the university, when the ability to pay becomes a deciding factor, then our country loses the chance to benefit from the skills and capabilities of its citizens. Many are on the streets that are supposed to be on the four walls of our tertiary institution but are unable due to high tuition fee. The first decade after independence, there was free-flowing access to education at all levels – primary, secondary and tertiary (university specifically) and the standard of education was very much ok. My mathematics lecturer, who happens to be a beneficiary of this free education in his cause of lecture once, told us that the standard of education in Nigeria has gone down the lane. He said and I quote: ‘’this is not school you people are attending, during our time everything was in order, well composed by the government, when corruption has not Crip into the government of this country. We were taking three times free meal a day, the government is the one providing our textbooks and notebooks and everything needed to standardise education were readily made available by the government’’. Then I said to myself will this ever happen again, all these were possible without assistant of tuition fee. Now that there is assistant through tuition fee everything has turn upside down. Which means if tuition fee is increased more than what it is now the education system in Nigeria University will totally fall apart.


Tuition fee increment is not what universities in Nigeria need for standard education but government proper agenda toward the standard of tertiary institution: Education of this country should be the responsibility of the government, especially at the University level by providing the necessary needs for better educational standard in the country. This is the only way the education sector in the country can grow and compete with other countries of the world. If it’s swerved to tuition fee, a good standard will never be attained because the higher the fee the lower the number of people who can afford it.


High tuition fee is not a determinant of better educational standard: Countries like Finland, Austria, France, Germany, to mention but few have a better educational standard compared to Nigeria, their tuition fee is low. Another example is some of the universities and polytechnics in Nigeria whose tuition fee is low yet their academic standard is better than that of the universities whose tuition fees are high, the likes of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Benin (UNIBEN), Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, and University of Ibadan (UI). These are the best Universities and polytechnic in Nigeria yet their tuition fee is at the lower rate.


Education is a right not a privilege: high tuition fee in the name of a better educational standard will prompt education to be a privilege in which only the rich will be able acquire it. In 1977 the government of Nigeria declared that education is an instrument of national development. If cost of acquiring this instrument is a burden on the people of the country and only the rich are able to overcome it how then will the country develop? The need for low tuition fee is very necessary so that there will be equality of educational acquisition.


Having written all these, I draw the cotton of closure for the time being, with believe in my heart that I have bring to your understanding the reasons why ‘’Increase in tuition fees in Nigeria universities is not necessary for a better educational standard’’
Thank you.

References
Vanguardngr.com -- boosting access to education
Policynote.ca
Education.stateuniversity.com
Dictionary.reference.com

well convincing.

Shynaboy1:

These universities have been in existence for a very long time. There were few federal universities then compared to nowadays which made it easy for the federal(regional then) government to pump money into this universities. An increase in universities' tuition will however lift these "nowadays" universities up to their standard. Then there will be uniformity in these Universities which will subsequently improve educational standard in Nigeria.

Do you agree with me that those infrastructures provided by the then regional government as u said are no more in place or must have worn out or are not useful any more to modern study if at all they are still in place? These Universities must have been equipped with modern infrastructures for modern learning without any hike in the tuition fee. what do you have to say about this?

sammyscholar:
Doff my fedora!well convincing.

Thanks bros

Judge 2

JOEJONAH: 1. Presentation (opening, flow, closing,
response to judges questions,
audience questions and contestants
rebuttals) - 2
2. Logic of arguments - 2
3. Strength of facts, examples, cases. - 2
4. Persuasiveness - 1
5. Demonstration of knowledge and
understanding of the subject - 2

Total : 9

Ehisdan: 1. Presentation (opening, flow, closing,
response to judges questions,
audience questions and contestants
rebuttals) - 2
2. Logic of arguments - 3
3. Strength of facts, examples, cases. - 2
4. Persuasiveness - 2
5. Demonstration of knowledge and
understanding of the subject - 2

Total: 11
Total 20



1. Presentation (opening, flow, closing,
response to judges questions,
audience questions and contestants
rebuttals) - 3
2. Logic of arguments - 2
3. Strength of facts, examples, cases. - 3
4. Persuasiveness - 2.5
5. Demonstration of knowledge and
understanding of the subject - 2.5



13.

Congratulations TEAM AUCHI POLYTECHNIC..

ehisdan:
Do you agree with me that those infrastructures provided by the then regional government as u said are no more in place or must have worn out or are not useful any more to modern study if at all they are still in place? These Universities must have been equipped with modern infrastructures for modern learning without any hike in the tuition fee. what do you have to say about this?

These infrastructures have been continually sustained and subsequently developed to the tune of modernity. Reason being that these infrastructures were already on ground and low amount is required to 'fine-tune' it compared to the said modern universities which are going through thick and thin to ensure infrastructures are put into place.