The increase in tuition fees would also help in the refurbishment of lecture halls and laboratories to a standard level that will be acceptable the world over. The increase would also serve as an incentive to both the lecturers and students to give their best. The unserious students would take their studies more seriously if they pay a high price to stay in school. They would endeavour to give their best, so that they can pay back the huge investments spent on them when they get high paying jobs.

Davo93: To buttress this question, you have to understand that an increase in the tuition fees in our public schools does not equate to an improved welfare for the lecturers. So you can't conclude that an increase in fees brings the required development.

I also want the speaker to understand that there could be infrastructural development while the quality of knowledge impacted on students decline.

king94: I am not a student there, according to my friends there, there is an improvement in the educational standard. There is also an increase in the number of applicants seeking for admission into LASU in my locality which says a lot about the educational standard.

Davo93: Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen,

The debaters have both written well. More ink to your pen.

My question goes to King94,
In your write-up, you obviously admitted the possibility of your opponent to say the hike in school fees may not be affordable by the less privileged. You argued there are scholarship for the brilliant poor ones. I want to ask, what is the fate of an average poor citizen who is not able to meet up with the set standard for the scholarship? We all understand what it means to get a scholarship in our country here except we are not just been real with ourselves. This is not also in exception to the corruption in the processes most atimes.

Thanks!

niyi20:


the state universities are only using the funds for state development not for the universities but the fg won't do that the funds will be strickly meant for universities

alutacontinua:

How do you know the FG won't do that?

Which brings up another issue, what is the assurance that the fees paid would be tailored towards better academic conditions?

alutacontinua:

I don't quite agree with this. A student that would be serious would be regardless of how much he pays. Have you been to private universities to see the level of unseriousness displayed by some students over there?

alutacontinua:

I don't quite agree with this. A student that would be serious would be regardless of how much he pays. Have you been to private universities to see the level of unseriousness displayed by some students over there?

Miscellaneous: Debaters more questions are springing up. The questions need to be answered.

king94: I am a beneficiary of my states' bursary and I will like to define myself as not being the most 'brilliant'. I agree with you on the corruption aspect but the cases are few in student bursaries. Poor average students can have a shot at state bursaries. The increase would also push them to develop themselves so that they can have a shot at private scholarships.

niyi20:


the state universities are only using the funds for state development not for the universities but the fg won't do that the funds will be strickly meant for universities

niyi20:
we all know that government institutions are not meant for profit making so with the helps of different organization or bodies the funds will be well monitor to ensure that it is properly used for universities development

alutacontinua:

The competition out there these days is tough and everybody just wants to get admitted into a university, state universities are a little bit on the easier side, hence, your second sentence. I don't think increase in the number of applicants means increase in educational standard.

As per your first sentence, I don't think I agree with that cos there are no research-based facts to support the statement. The research-based facts don't even put any state university among the first 10 universities in Nigeria.

niyi20:

sure a students knowing how difficult it is for is parents to pay is school fees will definitely attach some seriousness to what ever is doing .

niyi20:

we are doing Justice to there questions

alutacontinua:



I must say the two statements above don't quite agree with each other. Are you now saying we would have to set up bodies or organization to look into the way government spends the fees paid by students? How practical is that?

Davo93: Bursary? How many state pay bursary to students? Even those that pay, how much is it that it will be sufficient for the increased fees you are agitating for?

Let me be a bit pratical here. Ondo State government pays N10,000 as bursary, same thing with Ekiti State. Osun only gives bursary award to students in there final year.

So tell me how effective bursary can be? Infact for those that pay, there is no fixed time for payment. Hence, it may not meet up with the exact time needed.

alutacontinua:

Do you even realise that increase in tuition does not necessarily mean 'difficulty for parents'?
There are students who pay almost a million per annum and their parents don't even feel it. It's much more easier for such parents than some other parents who pay N10,000 per annum. In this case, do we say the increase in fees automatically means increase in seriousness on the part of the student?

king94: A lecturer that taught me Chemistry 101 said that 'Even if your father stole the money that he is using to send you to school,he will surely feel the pinch'. A child is usually admonished at home before the start of every semester. The onus now rests on the child to either pass well or fail woefully. A child that has a conscience would take his studies seriously due to the huge amount that his parents are paying

niyi20:

to give more explanation to my point I will use the removal of subsidy. Government sets up bodies to ensure that the funds from subsidy is use effectively so we should be expecting similar method

alutacontinua:

A child that has a conscience would take his studies seriously even if the parents are paying N20. A child that has no conscience won't even if they're paying N20 million. Don't you think

alutacontinua:

Do you even realise that increase in tuition does not necessarily mean 'difficulty for parents'?
There are students who pay almost a million per annum and their parents don't even feel it. It's much more easier for such parents than some other parents who pay N10,000 per annum. In this case, do we say the increase in fees automatically means increase in seriousness on the part of the student?

king94: Ladies and gentlemen, we can go back and forth and we would still not reach unison on the issues discussed. However, I want you all to know that there can't be an improvement in our educational standard without a steady influx of money to each universities' internally generated revenue(IGR). The government are trying their best but it is not just enough. More money needs to be pumped into the system. I have a resounding faith that our universities would get better. True, the policy might seem harsh but I can assure you that it is for the betterment of our university system. We have no other choice. The status quo is no longer maintanable. Thank you and God bless.