The Pro-Chancellor of Fountain
University, Osogbo, Professor N.O.
Adedipe, has called on the Federal
Government to fund the private
universities, arguing that the future of
quality-assured access expansion lies
mainly in them.
Speaking at the 2013 Al-Hikmah
University Convocation on the subject,
“Strains and Stresses in the Nigerian
University System: Sustainable Quality
Assurance Prospects by Private
Universities,” he observed that
increasing student enrolment in the
Federal, and to some extent, State
Universities, is counter-productive as it
would compromise the carrying capacity
component of quality assurance.
Since the private universities charge
tuition fees between N300,000 and
N1,500,000, the potential access
enhancement is “actually unattainable”
due to the high fees,” he said, following
an exhaustive exploration of the history,
structure and state of the sector
today.
“It is, therefore, logical for the Federal
Government to make some “grant
funding” to private universities to
enable them expand access, or more
appropriately, to fill the gaps.
Increasing student enrolment in the
Federal, and to some extent, State
Universities, is counter-productive since
this would compromise the carrying
capacity component of quality
assurance.”
He stressed that the Federal
Government must now face the reality
of the need for reasonable tuition fees,
as practiced by State Universities.
The State Universities, he suggested,
must now differentiate fees charged
between “in-state” and “out-state”
students as is the practice in the United
States, and higher fees charged from
foreign students in the UK.




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Can u imagine what this confused man is saying. Maybe he isn't aware of what ASUU is fighting for. Mtcheeew