This academic year, at least 15 universities in the UK have announced job cuts and additional cost-saving measures to save finances.
Earlier in March, more than 120 staff at Sheffield Hallam University were served with "risk of redundancy" letters, which gave them until 18 March to apply for voluntary redundancy or one of a "limited number of roles". The University of Kent in February proposed to cut 58 jobs along with nine courses in an attempt to respond to "financial challenges".
Due to a freeze in tuition fees, most universities have covered their costs by enrolling overseas students, who pay far more than domestic students.

StOla:
Lol

Without good funding, any country's tertiary education system will be in financial turmoil.

"poor and suffering" Nigerians whose parents work for the best companies in Nigeria, have been going abroad to study with funds earned in Nigeria and removed from the Nigerian economy, and depriving the Nigerian tertiary education system.
Pay Nigerians like UK and increase tuition fees like UK. In a country where minimum wage per month is less than 15 pounds sterling

"poor and suffering" Nigerians who enjoyed a subsidised undergraduate education in Nigeria, secure good jobs in Nigeria and use it to raise funds to go for post graduate courses abroad,
without any benefit to the Nigerian economy or
our own education system.

Let us keep subsiding the education for UK and Canada with our Nigerian funds and economy, while our own keep rotting away with students and parents protesting and insisting that session school fees should remain N20k in the federal Universities - even cheaper than the federal Polytechnics.

StOla:
Lol

Without good funding, any country's tertiary education system will be in financial turmoil.

"poor and suffering" Nigerians whose parents work for the best companies in Nigeria, have been going abroad to study with funds earned in Nigeria and removed from the Nigerian economy, and depriving the Nigerian tertiary education system.

"poor and suffering" Nigerians who enjoyed a subsidised undergraduate education in Nigeria, secure good jobs in Nigeria and use it to raise funds to go for post graduate courses abroad,
without any benefit to the Nigerian economy or
our own education system.

Let us keep subsiding the education for UK and Canada with our Nigerian funds and economy, while our own keep rotting away with students and parents protesting and insisting that session school fees should remain N20k in the federal Universities - even cheaper than the federal Polytechnics.

ehikwe22:


Education is not subsidized in Nigeria - it's sub standard. I doubt that you've ever stepped your foot out of Nigeria

zuchyblink:
Pay Nigerians like UK and increase tuition fees like UK. In a country where minimum wage per month is less than 15 pounds sterling

StOla:


It is substandard yet you used it to get jobs abroad at same pay with the citizens who schooled there, while your citizen colleagues at work are still paying the student loans that funded the degree they obtained to share the same intellectual space with you?

Dude, I have travelled the world and also benefited from foreign education.

But we must put an end to the denial of funds to our own education system by "poor and suffering" Nigerians that seem to be able to afford greatly higher school fees abroad.

StOla:


No one is saying Nigerians should pay as high a school fees as it exist in the UK.

But did you take note that many professionals in the UK, cannot even earn half of £9200 pounds as monthly salary in that UK?

To equate it to Nigeria, that Nigerian who can earn N800k to N1. 2m monthly salary, should have been able to pay annual university school fees of about N1. 6m to N2m.

That is what is the Nigerian equivalent to the UK fees. Not an exchange rate matter, but the worth of the fees to a good salary after graduation within the same national economy.

The problem with Nigeria is that a family where mother is earning N800k and father is earning N1. 5m monthly salary, still think that the university fees for their kids should be removable from any particular month salary, instead of something you save up and plan towards.

We want to spend the same money used for family outing to Mega Chicken, to pay university tuition fees.

StOla:


It is substandard yet you used it to get jobs abroad at same pay with the citizens who schooled there, while your citizen colleagues at work are still paying the student loans that funded the degree they obtained to share the same intellectual space with you?

Dude, I have travelled the world and also benefited from foreign education.

But we must put an end to the denial of funds to our own education system by "poor and suffering" Nigerians that seem to be able to afford greatly higher school fees abroad.

Beautifulday:


Really! Wow. So our degrees are this good?

StOla:
This is the session school fee charges for UK (EU) citizens. Even students from EU countries paid similar fees until the brexit.

This has changed over the years while foreign non-EU students like Africans and Asians have paid much more for each of those fee regimes.

I remember reading in the Economist magazine in 2006 when the undergraduate fees were to increase from £1200 to £3000 for UK citizens, that was the time that foreigners then had to pay about £8000 to £12,000 for undergraduate session fees depending on the university, compared to the £3000 for local students.

By the time the fees for local students moved to £9000, foreign students were paying upwards of £13,000 to £18,000 for undergraduate fees.

What is very evident is that, without foreign students paying such fees, the universities would have to charge the local students more.

I hope the UK authorities would continue with their anti-immigration policies for the benefit of developing countries like Nigeria that keep losing university funds to the UK.

ehikwe22:


You are drunk. It's very obvious from your comment

StOla:
No one...

Skengman:


You say @StOla is drunk ? He dropped wisdom right there. I tell you what, you're the problem of Nigeria, not Tinubu.

zuchyblink:
Most Nigerians traveling abroad are not going there to study,they are traveling to enjoy steady power supply,good roads, security,jobs and to acquire a strong passport. Provide these things in Nigeria, Most Nigerians will stay back.
Study visa is just a legal route to travel.

ehikwe22:


He's making sense? Average income in Nigerian households is 800k - 1.2m?

StOla:


I never told you about average income.

I told you about a good pay in Nigeria versus a good pay in the UK.

Anyone earning £4500 (above £50,000 pa), is earning a good pay in the UK, just as many young Nigerians earning above N800k (above N10m pa) are also earning well.

Don't even begin with the foolish lie that only a few earn well in Nigeria. Everybody cannot earn well but those who cross that benchmark I defined are many.

So if the UK, can be bold enough to charge a university session fee that is about 2months salary of those who earn well, while we are charging a session tuition fee that is less than the monthly pocket money that most students with working parents get, then is it not obvious that our education is heavily subsidised?

In the mid 2000s to circa 2013, when tuition fees in Unilag was less than N20k, only those that can be classified as indigent students did not get monthly pocket money from their parents that was not more than a whole year tuition fees.

I repeat, let us continue to charge money for family outing to Mega Chicken as session tuition fees, while our tertiary education system is in comatose.

When we are ready to get serious, we will admit that nothing good comes cheap.