Epurogonogono:




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I know that the class of education gotten in public tertiary institutions in Nigeria is very poor, but it's better than none.

I can tell you for a fact that if people could afford it, they wouldn't even send their children to these public tertiary institutions.

Your proposition, if carried out by the government would not even affect the rich man's children who either attends private or foreign universities.


Let me tell you, if we end up paying higher taxes, who does it affect the most? Is it not still the poor man whose salary is barely enough to for his family that would get affected the most? Taxes have not yielded a lot of benefits for the common man in Nigeria.



The problem with the Nigerian government is that they don't take education as a very important sector in the country as they do with some sections that affect them and there loved ones.
I can tell you that if any of their children attends any of these public tertiary institutions, there would be any strike in the first place.

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Tareq1105:


What's the difference between Yar adua and Jonathan 2007-2015?

PDP signed Agreement in 2009 with ASUU but never implement it till it left in 2015. Everybody including PDP members are now shouting APC APC APC over the Agreement they couldn't implement.

Unfortunately these students are indomie children with no knowledge of history.

If I have access to government, I will make our Universities autonomous. I'll allow them to charge fees and run their schools. No government intervention. Then, students whose parents cannot afford the school fees, will have access to Students Loan. I'll bring back Education Loan Board.

This will end corruption in Education Sector from the Ministry to Vice Chancellor, Senate, etc

eminikansoso:

Government always play politics with institutions.
Okay from ASUU to SSANU.
Now in order to break ASUU power, they (Federal government) romanced with SSANU and NASU.
History will not forgive This APC government.

rusher14:


You keep talking rubbish for the sake of it.

The Nigerian public is antagonistic by nature.

Nothing would ever make sense to them as long as it is government's action.

ASUU doesn't have the interest of the students at heart and sadly, the students don't understand it.

They would spend 6 years in becoming half-baked instead of 4 years to be half-baked.

Absolutely nothing would change apart from higher remuneration for the lecturers.

The high-handedness of the lecturers wouldn't change.

If lecturers feel they deserve more, they shoulf go to the private sector which is known to pay higher except to lecturers who can always hold government hostage.

29kobo:



And in response, I am going to be a bit harsh and say that you should stop complaining about how government runs education then. At the end, the public universites will become worse than the private universities...and you know what that means for the job market? The rich kids get an advantage since they can afford the better education in private unis (AND it is already happening.).

If government realises how important education is, they would raise the money for it by taxation and/or fees. Not by hoping that the price of oil , cocoa, groundnut and so forth goes high enough for us to pay for 'quality education' because it can't happen.

Yeah, in the past we were able to pay for quality universites and high grade lecturers with revenue from cocoa, palmoil etc, because back when my dad went to university, there were six of them and none of them had more than 4000 students apiece. Naturally there was more than enough money for things like student housing almost free food, and so forth.

Not now , where there are nearly 40000 students in one university. Even if we threw our entire national budget at the problem, it won't solve much.

At the end , fees have to go up, or taxes go up to fund expensive universities. The poor can be helped by a combination of grants, scholarships and loans. In South Africa, fees are sky high, but if your parents earn below a certain level, government will step in and help (and they enforce that level strictly...I once read of one South African lass who did not qualify because her parent's earning was a few hundred rand above the financial cut off point. She had to hustle for more money).

Either we want good universities or we don't. Either we get good quality education, or we don't. We cannot be complaining about problems, and then when solution comes, complain that the solution is not to our liking..we take the solution or we don't. And God knows I wish there was a way we could have world class unviersites for just 10000 naira a year per student...without going into debt, or high taxes, or paying for it somehow.

FreeStuffsNG:
Thank God that good sense and patriotism has started setting in.

FG took ASUU and all of them to the court of public opinion and Nigerians got bewildered on realising the cost implication of the 2009 agreement is N1.1 trillion
Where will FG get N1.1 trillion from that national budget? FG should stop creating new universities abeg.

FG , ASUU, NASU, SSANU and all the stakeholders must meet and agree on realistic way forward.
May God bless Nigeria for ever!
check my signature for freebies!

bigpicture001:


Government has a fundamental duty to secure her people, educate her ppl, guide the health of her ppl, among others...

So if it goes quite high, the ppl will b mostly illiterate and human capacity will reduce and den economy will crumble

rusher14:


We aren't going to attract anything of note to ourselves.

We can't keep wishing but doing.

FreeStuffsNG:
Thank God that good sense and patriotism has started setting in.

FG took ASUU and all of them to the court of public opinion and Nigerians got bewildered on realising the cost implication of the 2009 agreement is N1.1 trillion
Where will FG get N1.1 trillion from that national budget? FG should stop creating new universities abeg.

FG , ASUU, NASU, SSANU and all the stakeholders must meet and agree on realistic way forward.
May God bless Nigeria for ever!
check my signature for freebies!

dogmart:


smiles. You think University education is goverment's duty? and that developed countries give free university education? please do your research better.

Why do we hear students owing hundreds of thousands of dollars as educational/students loan that must be paid back after graduation in so called developed countries? Maybe u dont know. standard University management is very expensive, that is very reason realistically Tuition fees are expensive.

It is not compulsory for the goverment to shoulder responsibility of University education if they are not realistically financially capable. what ia important is maintaining and ensuring a good standard. What is the point in having thousands of poorly educated graduates who cannot defend their certificate yearly. graduates who only went to school to earn a degree for "degree sake" . and who has no point being in the university in the first place.

They can only gve scholarship to high flying students who have distinguished themselves and who the goverment is sure will be an asset ro the nation.

it is high time we face reality.

29kobo:


Yes, I know that only too well.

But the truth is, either we pay for quality education, or we don't and we stop complaining about how bad universities are.

And anyway, school isn't where all the learning is done. Maybe as technology improves, the way we do education may change, and we won't neccesarily need a university per se...and a lot of things might get cheaper to do.

bigpicture001:


Very fast quaranteed good education can also b gotten from private varsities... Let the average to the rich people use them...

For these govt owned institutions, it need be subsidized lest we compound our already too much problems

bigpicture001:


Nobody said varsity education is cheap anywhere in the world... If u research, u wwill notice government varsities still exist in large number even in the US... That cuz government dou still wouldn't pay for ur tuition feez but they realized cheap education will heal the land of vices that come from non educated populace

TheNiceGuy:
Hope they'll not be paid for those period they were on strike

29kobo:
The only way to solve this strike issue is for government to allow universities to be autonomous and to set fees as high as they want to.

That way they can make enough money to pay lecturers what they want and to pay for any new facilities, and equipment and suchlike.

Also, at the end of the day, we need more money in things like tetfund you are correct

TheNiceGuy:
Hope they'll not be paid for those period they were on strike

Olidan:
Hope the lecturers will not continue from where they stopped?

Ebubu9:
Sinkhole NASU and SSANU have called off!

Accept what FG offers and negotiate with a new government by next year, besides whatever you agree with this FG, likely next Govenment will renege on it or refuse to bow to it with excuse it was not their government or times have changed and crude oil has sunken in price. So what’s the point insisting on getting most of everything with this outgoing government ?


Three years of admission years are piling up in universities!

ASUU shouldn’t let this strike ENTER September.

politicoNG:


https://www.channelstv.com/2022/08/20/just-in-ssanu-nasu-suspend-strike-after-meeting-with-education-minister/

Yankee101:
“If we agree on that, therefore, the lectures we should have given [to students] for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 [sessions], should be allowed to go so we start a new session, 2022/2023, in September,” Professor Osodeke said

Greedy lecturers