okk4sure:



Which 1 b Hezekiah?

All ds Christians self!

chiefolododo:
How about mosque? Book is haram

Stocking:

You are a bastard

chiefolododo:
How about mosque? Book is haram

Mrbolt565:
Even with all the rubbish church church, still look at the rubbish country! Fvucking apes! Na them they preach pass and na us still dey suffer pass!

Elzak:
How many members of the churches can afford to send their children to these universities?

kolaxed98:



Which one b khadijah?

All these Muslims self

okk4sure:



Which 1 b Hezekiah?

All ds Christians self!

Topmaike007:
is the cup of tea of Those that hate the church

ollah2:


Nairaland should endeavour to limit religious threads that hits front page. It's 2019, we need to put religion aside, think and discuss about meaningful things.

Lalasticlala
Seun
Mynd44
Ishilove

Shalom!!!

theoldpretender:


Nigerians talk a lot about stuff. Religion is one of the most important things to a Nigerian....including the atheist Nigerians.

theoldpretender:


The truth is that many of them CAN afford the universites.

But to answer your real question....why can't these churches allow students to go to school for N20000 per annum?

Because if they did...many of their universites would be bankrupt in one year.

Church unviersities have to raise their funding. Even mega rich churches like Living faith don't have access to the kind of funding that government does to subsidise education.

Also, many of them rich churches have to pay unviersity staff at par with what they pay in public universites. And in addition, many of these churches also have other businesses, as well as pastors, chruch workers, etc who also have to be paid...and who employ lots of people....that have to be paid.

Universites are also very expensive.Average budgets of well funded universites can be above $100million yearly. Many churches don';t have that cash at hand....and even if Papa sold all his fine jets, etc...that would only yield enough cash....for one year. Then fees have to go up again.

I know...I wish educaiton was free. But it can't. Back when our parents went to University for free...getting into university was much harder than it was. It took 2 years...during which you wrote O level, A level, and whatever matric exam the university you wanted to enter set for you. And you must pass at a high level (One of my uncles got 5 credits at Olevel...in the right subjects too. Back then, it was enough for him to get into a teacher's training college.Not that he regretted it...he retired as a Principal a few years ago).

Now, entry to unviersity has become easier. Millions more students are in university than they were in the 1970s. And the funding is becoming more and more difficult. So, fees. Or we end up with half baked graduates...or we pay professors N30000 as salary...and expect them to grin and bear it.

ollah2:



And that has further divided and killed us so what's the point?

HigherEd:

The relevance of a university is not in how many poor people's kids it educated. If it were, Ahmadu Bello Uni would be relevant than Stanford. The relevance is in solving the many problems facing humanity. You may not be able to attend John Hopkins University but in many ways John Hopkins has benefited you and many other poor people across the globe. They do this when they create vaccines, innovate new ways to do surgery etc.

Have you ever wondered why scholarships are giving to indigent brilliant kids in many ivy leagues and not poor dull kids. It is not because they pity them but that those poor brilliant kids should come and improve the mandate of the universities by contributing to research.

As it is here in Nigeria, the public universities have more problems than the society it is supposed to help because govt and the people live under the illusion of free higher education. We have sacrificed the relevance and functionality of universities in the name of access. If the church unis focus on giving access they would also face the problem the public universities are challenged with in greater proportion and would never have the opportunity to make a mark like their counterparts outside the shores of naija.

Don't ask a university if it is free, ask if it is relevant. Expensive is a price we should be willing to pay to have functional universities.

Uselessman:
I disagree with you. Do you know how many times papa told us he is using our school fees to cut grass when I was still in covenant University.

theoldpretender:


And sweeping it under the carpet would make the issue go magically away.?