USA has 6,426 higher institutions. They admit over 95% of students that apply for admission.

China has 5,852 higher institutions that admit almost 98%.

Nigeria has less 220 higher institutions that can only admit 22% of UTME students.

There are 187,941 accredited primary schools in Nigeria feeding 104,434 secondary schools. How come these 104,434 secondary schools are feeding less than 220 higher institutions? Wahala dey oo!..

An average of 1.7million candidates sit for UTME every year but only 410,000 are admitted..
Worst still, these 220 schools turn out around 320,000 graduates every year and less than 15% of them get a job each year. E jikwem ogu o.

N/B - 39,620 Nigerian students are studying abroad.

It's because our president is an illiterate

Because 9ja is one of a country

anuma1:
It's because our president is an illiterate

It is because our present president is illiterate that Nigeria had only been able to build only 220 tertiary institutions after close to 60 years after independence and trillions of dollars of oil money?

izzou:


So, are you advocating for more tertiary institutions to be created?

If yes, where are the jobs for those who graduate from the system?

Obviously.

There is a direct correlation between development and the number and standard of tertiary institutions a country has.

A reasonable government would design an educational policy that would foster it's developmental objectives and agenda. In Nigeria there is no educational agenda, citizens just go to school with the sole aim of collecting certificates.

220 higher institutions is grossly inadequate for a population of close to 200million.

Now, have you sat down to ask yourself why Nigerian graduate are unable to find work? It it because there are no work, there are no demand for goods and services, they are not skilled enough to find or create work or simply because they are lazy?

How can you say there is no work in a country with a population of 200 million? Will the whole 200 million people not eat everyday, not drink, not wear cloths, not fall sick, etc. Nigeria is seen as a gold mind by other developed and developing countries. Countries like Morocco are ready to do anything to get free access into the Nigerian market.

anuma1:
It's because our president is an illiterate

Hmmmm

Talk of opening more school our youth who will benefit from it will land with excuse of why not use the money to upgrade old ones as if building more school means abandoning old one.


Nigerian selfish university management are the one who started the opposition against new universities so that the student they control will not reduce.

This thread pretty interesting since it poses many open ended questions. I think it deserves front page. Maybe we can get some answers and simple solutions.

If theres a shortage of tertiary institutions states and local governments should establish them. One issue is the currenty schools that exist are underfunded. These campus require mainly tax money to run and maintain. Then students may have to be willing to pay more to attend.

An average of 1.7million candidates sit for UTME every year but only 410,000 are admitted..
Worst still, these 220 schools turn out around 320,000 graduates every year and less than 15% of them get a job each year. 

Front page: Lalasticlala

what is the essence of going to school when there are no jobs out there?...we have lots of graduates out there with wonderful grades.. no jobs..taking 15k jobs...what can 15k do?...the charade called university education in this country is in a state of comatose?.we have lecturers using outdated notes since 1983 to teach students.. how do we want to progress?..it is one of the reasons the owner of this forum ..one of the brightest in elect elect left school...see the outcome?..even professors cannot create an app..not to talk of a booming forum like this(it can be better though).... The country needs to get its priority right.....we have all been programmed that if you go to school..you will make it..that is one big lie....

Blue3k:
This thread pretty interesting since it poses many open ended questions. I think it deserves front page. Maybe we can get some answers and simple solutions.

If theres a shortage of tertiary institutions states and local governments should establish them. One issue is the currenty schools that exist are underfunded. These campus require mainly tax money to run and maintain. Then students may have to be willing to pay more to attend.

Government (whether federal, state or local) can no longer fund university education alone, because of sheer number of candidates seeking admission. The existing federal universities are overcrowded, underfunded and no qualified lecturers. Private universities are using the situation to exploit Nigerians seeking higher education. Atiku, OBJ and some others have exploited these situation by charging exorbitant prices and absurd admission conditions.

What we need is to declare a state of emergency on the education sector. Education professionals and the government should get together and chart an educational policy that is relevant to our economy and nation. A new curriculum should be designed from primary school to university level.
Incentives such as loans, tax breaks and cheap land should be provided for genuine investors in the education sector. If government is ready to provide land, grazing reserves and ranches for cow herders, why not provide the same incentives to educational investors, on which the very survival of the country depends on.

What do you mean by funding education alone? The options are to expand current ones and build more. Local governments and state governments have plenty of ways to fund higher education. Example local governments can form districts to build polytechnics commuity colleges.

The qualified lectures is all about vetting new hires. The going through quagmire or firing tenor profesdors and unionized professors. The university president how to institute policy of continuing education for staff. Its frankly absurd for a any professional to stop learning after getting degree whether they be in the private sector or academia. Thats why you find professors who dont understand how to use emails or update curriculums.

Private universities can step in but they will naturally be more expensive. Again if you dont like the prices or admission requirements nobody forces them to attend. They are free to go to universities where professors strike ever year over what ever.

If they government wants to give tax breaks they are free to. The loans are ok as long as its capped or else prices will increase. All land is vested in state so state governments are free to do it anytime.

wirinet:


Government (whether federal, state or local) can no longer fund university education alone, because of sheer number of candidates seeking admission. The existing federal universities are overcrowded, underfunded and no qualified lecturers. Private universities are using the situation to exploit Nigerians seeking higher education. Atiku, OBJ and some others have exploited these situation by charging exorbitant prices and absurd admission conditions.

What we need is to declare a state of emergency on the education sector. Education professionals and the government should get together and chart an educational policy that is relevant to our economy and nation. A new curriculum should be designed from primary school to university level.
Incentives such as loans, tax breaks and cheap land should be provided for genuine investors in the education sector. If government is ready to provide land, grazing reserves and ranches for cow herders, why not provide the same incentives to educational investors, on which the very survival of the country depends on.

Blue3k:
What do you mean by funding education alone? The options are to expand current ones and build more. Local governments and state governments have plenty of ways to fund higher education. Example local governments can form districts to build polytechnics commuity colleges.

The qualified lectures is all about vetting new hires. The going through quagmire or firing tenor profesdors and unionized professors. The university president how to institute policy of continuing education for staff. Its frankly absurd for a any professional to stop learning after getting degree whether they be in the private sector or academia. Thats why you find professors who dont understand how to use emails or update curriculums.

Private universities can step in but they will naturally be more expensive. Again if you dont like the prices or admission requirements nobody forces them to attend. They are free to go to universities where professors strike ever year over what ever.

If they government wants to give tax breaks they are free to. The loans are ok as long as its capped or else prices will increase. All land is vested in state so state governments are free to do it anytime.

Government agrees that the private universities are the the future.
https://www.nairaland.com/4621725/future-higher-education-belongs-private

Read it seems they abondoned their responsibility over to private university since they dont want to adress their own faults. Oh well if thats case they should shut down the public ones and stop wasting tax money. The issues with public universities seem beyond these academics and politicians.

He listed some of the problems to include access, resulting in the emergence of degree mills and satellite campuses; preponderance of social vices, instability of academic calendar, indiscipline of staff and infrastructural decay.

wirinet:


Government agrees that the private universities are the the future.
https://www.nairaland.com/4621725/future-higher-education-belongs-private