The Lagos State Government in
line with the recommendations of
the visitation panel report has
approved new regime of tuition
fees for fresh students of Lagos
State University (LASU) starting
from 2011/2012 academic
session.
The new tuition fees
arecontained in government
views (white paper) on the
report of the visitation panel to
LASU dated September 2011,
even as it directed the
governing council and the
Senate to take action on the
implementation.
New students admitted to the
College of Medicine are expected
to pay the highest amount of
N348,750 with N80,000 being
tuition, accommodation attracts
N60,000, N50,000 for
laboratories/practical/workshop/
studio, examinations N25,000
while acceptance fee and
manuals go for N20,000 each.
But in a swift reaction to the
tuition fees increment, the
Students Union rejected the
action and vowed to oppose the
implementation on campus,
saying the body was not carried
along by the government and
the university management
before it was approved.
The report states: “In view of
the enormous financial
commitment required to run a
university vis-à-vis other
competing demands in the public
sector, government accepts the
recommendations to increase
tuition fees and therefore
directs the governing council and
other authorities of the
university to effect the following
graduated tuition fees for the
following courses.”
A breakdown of the new tuition
fee per faculty indicates that
fresh students in Faculties of
Arts/Education would cough out
N193,750. Further details
revealed that tuition fee is
N50,000, acceptance fee,
laboratories/workshop/practical/
studio attracts N20,000 each
and it also include N15,000 for
field trip/teaching practice and
development levy.
For Faculties of Social and
Management Sciences, the new
students would pay N223,750
from 2011/2012 academic session
with N60,000 going for tuition
fee, laboratories/practical/
workshop/studio attract
N25,000, acceptance fee is
N20,000.
The new fee for Law
programmes is N248,750, with
breakdown as follows, N80,000
for tuition, N50,000 for MOOT
court Law, while examinations
and acceptance goes for
N20,000 each as development
levy is N15,000.
Communication/ Transport
faculties new intakes are to pay
N238,750, with N60,000 going for
tuition fee, N30,000 for
laboratories/practical/workshop/
studio, N25,000 for examinations
and N20,000 for acceptance fee.
According to government, fresh
students in Science Faculty
would pay N258,750, made up of
N60,000 as tuition fee, N40,000
for laboratories/ practical/
workshop/studio, examination
N25,000, and N20,000 each for
acceptance fee and manuals.
In Engineering Faculty, the new
intakes would cough out N298,
750 with breakdown as follow,
N80,000 for tuition fee, N45,000
for laboratories/practical/
workshop/studio, N25,000 for
examinations, while acceptance
fee and manuals attracts
N20,000 each.
It further stressed that
“Government directs that the
new tuition fees shall not be
applied retroactively as current
students are exempted from the
increase. The new tuition fees
will take effect from 2011/2012
academic session.
Government will mitigate the
impact of the increase in tuition
fees on indigent students by
provision of bursary and
scholarship through its bursary
and scholarship schemes”.
The new President of the
students union, Durojaiye
Olalekan told Daily Sun that the
current or former executive
were consulted by the
government or the university
management stressing that
many students would be forced
to abandon their programmes.
His words: “If there is any
element of truth about the
increment, we will resist it. It is
unjust. In LASU 70 per cent of
students are from less privilege
homes, they will be affected. It is
exploitative in nature”.