1) Nigeria's Birth Rate Is Too High:

Every year, Nigeria adds about 200,000 more candidates to UTME. The UTME candidacy of 2021 is largely predicated on the birth rate of 1998 - 2004 which hovered around 6.16 births per woman.
In 2021, Nigeria still has one of the largest birth rate in the world with 5.4 children per woman. However, unlike 1998 - 2004 there's even far greater appetite for education and a dwindle in child mortality. What this means is Nigeria is set for serious admission crisis in the near future.

Any nation which wants a purely public funded education must keep her annual birth growth to less than 3.0 per woman. E.g Finland has 1.3 birth per woman, Sweden has 1.6 birth per woman, China has 1.7 birth per woman.

2) The Public Universities Are Simply Not Enough:

For public universities to solely handle admission would require admitting 21, 000 students per annum currently. Where is the infrastructure and finance for this? Note that even the mighty Harvard University admits less than 2000 students per annum even when it has 45000 applicants. Caltech admits only 300 students per annum.

It is popular knowledge that the smaller a university the better the experience.

3) Ministry Of Education Has Little Business With Industrialization:

I have heard many say "build factories". This is not the business of the ministry of education. The ministry of education is to provide well trained graduates, ensure quality curriculum and access to esucation. It is the business of the Ministry of Finance and Economy to create policies that fosters industrialization and uptakes graduates.

As long as people give birth with no discretion, there would be need to create more universities or regulate the number of children.

4) Your Education Budget Would Not Increase Anytime Soon:

In case you don't know, Nigeria has multiple challenges in varying sectors. No one is going to lower appropriation to health sector, security etc to increase allocation to education. So the attending inflation combined with population surge would only create worse classrooms, hostels etc. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.

This is because students in public varsities aren't paying the full cost of education. So as the purchasing power of the naira dwindles, the quality of education dwindles.

5) Every Private Varsity Starts Really Small:

Quite a number of folks easily scream substandard when they see a private university with five buildings. Having five buildings on startup doesn't necessarily equate substandard education.
As a matter of fact, most great universities actually start that small and grow rapidly over the decades.
A good example, Covenant University started with less than 5 buildings in 2002. But in 2021 it has over 200 buildings. Unlike the public sector, the private universities can grow because their business model is in tune with the realities of the economy.

6) Your PhD Graduates Need Places To Work

Academia is a service industry on its own. Most PhDs need to be absorbed by research centers, universities etc. The industry can only be robust when you have sufficient diverse institutions that can absorb the number of academics being churned out annually.

Very true

Valid points.

True talk but many may not understand. The only language most of us understand is whatever puts food on our table immediately and that seems to be employment for now, however education and sustainable employment (not like n-power) go hand in hand.

CodeTemplar:
True talk but many may not understand. The only language most if us understand is whatever puts food on our table immediate and that seems to be employment for now, however education and sustainable employment (not likely n-power) go hand in hand.

As in. it seems our people don't understand the power of data and economics.

I remember one Adamu garba during elections say he would ban private primary and secondary school and invest in public education like Rwanda.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What I found amusing was the number of people cheering the stupidity on.

Imagine taking Children away from Ambassadors college where there parents are fine paying their fees and go give them free education. Imagine the collapse of the public education sector. Did Adamu check the birth rate or the amount private sector represents in education.

I pity for this country.

You can license as much as you want but please fix all loopholes with ASUU so I'd graduate in jejely

God bless Sony interactive entertainment ;God bless the United States ;God bless Nigeria ;God bless Kogi state; God bless the good people of Okene.

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We just need a university of employment

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We just need a university of employment

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The bigger problem are jobs.
Not more universities.

Nearly every local government area in Europe has a public university.

Public Universities are not enough in Nigeria.

Nigeria government establishing university in every state but ignores providing more universities mostly in the southern states where too many qualified candidates for university exist, is purely a method to arrest education advancement in such states with very high numbers of qualified candidates.

Really

Enough of theotrical universities, we need practical polytechnics, with adequate research & development grants.
Another condition for private university licence should be, prove of financial Sustainability for research & development secured by a bank.

Birth rate is too high without job opportunity for the graduate and insecurity every where, kuku kill us to reduce our population, oloriburuku everywhere.