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The Nigeria govt is filled with irredeemably stupid people.

Why don't you fashion out laws that mandate Doctor - Patients Privacy and use the same law to prosecute those who violate the law, rather than give foolish excuses.
As a President or Minister of Health you have the power and resources to go to any country of choice with working models and copy their templates, then modify it to suit your peculiarities and then implement it.

Don't come and be giving us useless stories. BTW a president should have disclosed the nature of his ailment to the people who elected him. John McCain came out to tell Americans that he had cancer of the brain - he is not a president but a senator.

This is the problem I always have with people, that you were appointed as something and want to show loyalty doesn't mean you should start talking like someone that never went through school.
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dvee2:
The question learned minds should be asking is what changes to make JAMB to be remitting hundreds of millions now while pre Buhari they are remitting zero? who was eating the money? Can this be attributed to the change brought about by this regime?

If you are still asking this questions then you probably was just born in Nigeria. We all know the money was siphoned previously and is most likely going to be siphoned again...

lanre316:
He's happy that his FreeTheSheple movement is yielding positive results and pastors are doing things to give back to society instead spending tithes to benefit themselves.

You must think this your freezer is so relevant lol. The audience reach of freeze are people that have not gone to church in years. The people whose funds really move churches don't even have time to be fighting on social media enough for the pastors to worry.

Yeah i heard about this too...awesome!
Lalasticlala

Ojogbon! This man is an extremely humble and kind man seasoned with grace. You would need to converse with him to know. A three time Alumnus of the University of Ibadan, he is also a deacon at the Living Faith Church. I do pray he would one day be brought to pilot CU after his service in Landmark...

Why should JAMB be making revenue from applicants? It is just immoral. Why not just charge them the cost of running the exams than using students as a revenue outfit? Yet this same ppl would tell cash strapped universities not to conduct post ume so as not to 'exploit' students. At best any proceed from Jamb should be shared for universities across the country or used to fund a joint university research funding pool. It is simply because of this money they've refused to allow jamb result reusable. The inability to reuse the jamb result has created a quagmire for applicants, thereby worsening people's chances of getting admitted- Jamb is an unnecessary obstacle created so just some greedy ppl can line their pockets.
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genuinechimere:
According to QS, the highest ranked university which is Catholic is the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) Belgium , which is ranked at #71. Notre Dame is top notch too. It has produced so many global icons.

Yes KU Leuven was founded by the catholics in 1425, just like Yale university was founded by methodist and harvard founded by puritian clergies. But I am not sure KU still retains that religious theme anymore. Many of the IVY Leagues and top 100 universities were founded by churches but the churches lost control of them..

brodalikeme:
Thank God for the Catholic educational systems, it’s has impacted billions worldwide.

You can say that again. I'm not Catholic but I can testify that the Catholic church, Adventist have made huge investments in Education that even surpasses that of Nations.

TheVictorious:
Wow this school is indeed very beautiful bro!

yea and the structures are from the 1800s

RandyX:
All the students from wealthy homes are abroad.

Majority, not all

Basilica of the Sacred Hearts
Father Jenkings leading Opening Mass

Morris Inn

Touchdown Jesus(Library)

University Of Notre Dame Football Stadium
ND vs Rice University

The Golden Dome

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Out of the 1,300 higher institutions founded by catholics and scattered across the world, One uniquely stands out. The University Of Notre Dame. Founded in 1842 by Father Edward Sorin in Indiana USA, the university of Notre Dame remains the best Christian university in the world. It manages to edge out Georgetown university(another catholic university) to be number one christian practicing university in the world. According to Times Higher ND is one of the top 1% Universities in the world and is a university all catholics should be proud of.

In beauty, Notre Dame edges out Stanford and MIT and can only be rivalled by the likes of Pepperdine and a host of others.

Annual Budget: $1.3 Billion(N450 Billion)
Endowment: $11.8 Billion(N4.3 Trillion)
Tuition Fees: $45,000/Annum
Student Population: 8,530
Admittance Rate: 16%



Lalasticlala Seun Mynd44

Very credible argument

BethelD1:
https://www.nairaland.com/jman06
You are very wrong bro!
Public universities in Nigeria are really waking up. Come to Uniben and see how new infrastructures are springing up on daily basis. It'll only continue to get better!

I would rather send my children to the US, Canada or UK for their university education than waste money in a Nigerian private university'



Sending your child to a University abroad(Undergraduate) should be exclusively reserved for children/wards of very very rich nigerians .
A middle class man sending his 18 year old to a forieng university where the parents have no access to him /her for sometimes 2-4 years is psychologically challenging for these kids .

These kids are still growing and they need ongoing support and care , there is really no significant advantage in academic terms over the good private universities in Nigeria .

The mid class Nigerian who sends his kid to a naija private university has definitely improved the child's chances in life and created a very good platform for the child to compete very well with even the richest kid of the land .

A middle class kids schooling abroad is quite vulnerable , they tend to struggle to pay school fees , cant get student loans, might have to work odd jobs /illegal jobs . Many times they behave like kids attending a bad government university in naija . Most times are never visited by their naija parents due to the expenses , infact some of the parents expect the kids to send some money home to help with other siblings!
The very rich guys in foreing unis , they dont need to work and their fees are paid upfront . They are visited by their parents -very significant psychological boost .

The Private unis in naija is a good competition for the poorly run federal/state unis . They are also a very good platform for serious minded mid class families to improve the future of their children .

The fact is that the graduates of these schools are now the preferred workers in many off the top firms in Nigeria and west african sub region .

Personally i thinks its is worth investing 700k yearly on a child's education for 3 years , who is most likely to get a good jobs straight away than pretending that spending 400k for a 4 year course in another university where children are psychologically damaged and educationally made substandard is worth it .

If we stop spending 100k every 3-4 months on unnecessary social functions and divert such funds to good education we will not be arguing about the obvious .

Lastly i think the very top end private universities will survive , definitely the ones jumping into the bandwagon are mostly going to dissapear with time .
Private unis are a good addition to our existing tertiary education system to compete and raise the bar higher and eventually the state institutions will catch up . The long term view is that education will eventually have to be paid for by loans and grant like the other countries .

You make so much sense sir.

This man has one coded sense of humor

Lalasticlala abeg o

Gerrard59:
This is not entirely true. Using whatever of methodology will always have public universities, especially federal as the best. Although in the future, there will be more private universities. But trying to blame the public for their misconception is quite false.

Do you know that the 4icu and unirank rankings are based on web popularity. However most Nigerians think it is based on quality. So how does an Elizade uni with 500 applicant clicking her website compete with Unilorin with over 100,000 applicants clicking her website? Do u know that all NUC rankings in the past 10 years were all false? Do you know that webometrics is heavily biased against small university e.g uni of Ibadan with 190 faculties produces 1000 research papers covenant with 32 faculties produce 500. Webometrics would rate UI above covenant.

Yeah. This is true. But the wealthy especially informed class will tend to prefer a Covenant as opposed to a Novena. However, the private schools in Abuja have been surviving sha.

I'm so sorry I didn't capture this Abuja issue. The likes of Baze and Nile would survive very well because they are focused on Luxury based education. The super wealthy would generally go there. As per Covenant, Babcock, Abuad, PAU, AUN, BAZE and Nile they are exempted from this write up. I am really talking(warning) about the likes of Novena, western delta uni, Samuel adegboyega uni, Edwin Clarke uni, pamo, evangel, leadcity, bellstech, tansian, Madonna, coal city uni, ritmon ikot uni, easternpalm, Monash, adetiba, spiritian, crown hill etc

You mean like Madonna University? But they are still getting students. How they do this is mind-blogging.

Finally, private universities (CU, ABUAD, BU, RU, AUN,Bells Tech and few others) will be among the most preferred schools in the future

Madonna, Igbinedion's enrollment and popularity has reduced drastically over the years. What they initially enjoyed was pioneer status but they failed to keep up and might be completely lost in the next few years.

Ifelola Olaleye

Currently, the NUC has revealed it is processing the application of 292 new private universities. This is in response to the inability of over one million students who are unable to get placing in Nigerian tertiary institutions and a way of weakning the impact of ASUU-led industrial actions on the higher education sector.

While it is true that Nigeria has a low number of university per population unlike the likes of United States and India with 5,000 and 8,000 universities respectively, Nigeria must however be very careful to anticipate the challenges ahead.


Low Popularity and Reputation: There are tons of private universities today which are unknown by the Nigerian public. Students generally do not want to study in schools they cannot brag of, irrespective of it's academic potentials hence a university's inability to secure popularity and reputation might be the path to its doom. Second generation private universities(created after 2010) are particularly bedeviled by the challenge of low reputation.

Poor Funding: Private Universities generally manage available funds better than their public counterpart and that might be the reason why the Nigerian public has missed the cry of Private universities in Nigeria for inclusion in Tetfund as just greed. However, private universities are finding it hard to balance accounts between paying huge amounts as wage bill, utilities(electricity), infrastructure development and so on. Despite the accusations of exploitative fees, private universities are struggling because the money they charge isn't even enough to cover their expenses. In most private universities it would take an average of about 12 students school fees to pay jut one Professor's annual salary. This then makes many private university resort to employing lecturers on part time.

Rising Debt Profile: In a bid to keep up infrastructurally, most private universities are resorting to financing their budgets through humongous loans while others are using loans as seed capital for setting up infrastructure. Debt in itself isn't bad as universities the likes of Stanford also use debt in financing their budget. Though for Nigerian universities there is usually one way to repay and that is raising fees.

Chronic Low Student Enrollment Today, Nigerian private universities are competing for a small middle class population and with the rise of newer private universities, the competition only becomes stiffer. Much of the first generation private universities who could easily secure over a thousand students in the early 2000s are now finding it more challenging. However it is important to note that while most private universities are having lower enrollments some are actually having increased enrollments.

Nigerian Public's Misconception Of University Rankings: Perhaps one of the things that has damaged the reputation of private universities are university rankings which are severely misunderstood by the Nigerian public. Today, parents and students alike log onto Google to search for the best universities in Nigeria just to find private universities sitting at the bottom of most tables with federal universities leading. Unfortunately they do not understand the methodology and flaws of such ranking systems. For instance the size and popularity of a university can directly impact on most university rankings like 4icu or unirank. Some other rankings are also made up by individuals with the sole intent to mislead the public. Other research rankings like webometrics has size standardization as issues and would naturally see bigger university take lead to the disadvantage of smaller ones.

Inability To Attract Students From Wealthy Homes: Very few Nigerian private universities can attract Children of the very rich in Nigeria, most usually attract middle class parents who do not want their children to suffer the effects of the rot in public universities. Also, there is proof that while private universities are suffering from low enrollment, the likes of the United Kingdom still enjoys huge patronage from Nigerian students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. For private universities to survive they must be able to attract the children of very wealthy families also. High networth individuals also have the capacity to increase radically the chances of a university to generate larger IGR through their campus purchases and procurement.

Recommendations For Private Universities in Nigeria.
Private Universities in Nigeria can survive but it would be tough and requiring of serious innovations particularly in the next few years as hundreds of more private universities join the Nigerian university system.

Private universities should have strong media presence.
Private Universities should explore recruiting students from neighbouring countries.
Private universities should explore delving into French taught programmes for the West African francophone neighbours.
Private Universities should continue to Lubby for inclusion in Tetfund.
Private universities must drop absurd rules and embrace moderate philosophy.
Private universities must continue to attract local and international scholarships for indigent student.
Private Universities must understand that her student and Alumni community are the best ambassadors of the university. When they speak Ill of their almamater they dreal an irreversible deathblow to the university.

https://educationexplorersite./2018/05/10/why-many-nigerian-private-universities-may-go-into-extinction-in-the-next-decade/

This nonsense has to just stop! Recently heard of how ppl where kneeling in UNN and now this

This nonsense has too just stop! Recently heard of how ppl where kneeling in UNN and now this

Awesome

My own university, Covenant uni protested to NUC as regards NUCs mathematics curriculum(2007) being severely outdated and then decided to go with the 'new' 2014 curriculum created by NUC. Only to be told by NUC that the 2014 curriculum was just a recommendation and that CU must revert to 2007 just as every other Nigerian uni, which is outdated. Even the so called 2014 is outdated not to talk of 2007, yet govt wants industry relevant graduates.

Many private universities have queried a situation where a Computer Science student is compelled to take Physical Chemistry in 100 level while counterparts in the UK go straight to the point... I think its high time govt allows academic freedom and let each university determine its own path and stop this nonsense of creating a central curriculum.

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Now I'm thoroughly convinced that Nigeria is governed by incredibly stupid people.

If this is what so called professors can come up with then I'm truly concerned for Nigeria. Everyone with half a brain ought to know that the problem of higher education in Nigeria is the issue of non functional universities as a result of poor funding and retrogressive lecturers. Instead of talking about equipping laboratories, creating tech clusters, university research park, improving knowledge transfer and pedagogy, reducing class sizes these mumu people are trying to add another useless year to an already useless four of five years.

For a university to produce industry - relevant graduates, the university itself has to be industry relevant. And that relevance can only come as a by product of heavy investment in research. You can add 20 years to the current setting and would still achieve nothing.

The irony is that these wehreys have their children in foreign countries where they complete academic curriculums in 3 years for BSc and 1 year for MSc yet more industry relevant than the ones in Nigeria spending close to 8 years achieving a BSC and MSC...

By Chidinma Okeke


Tens of thousands of Nigerian students may spend extra year in specialized institutions after graduation to make them employable.
The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, put forward the proposal at the ongoing Retreat for Governing Councils of Nigerian Federal Universities, organized by the National Universities Commission (NUC) with the theme, “Elements of Statutory Governance, Procurement and Financial Accounting in Nigerian Universities.”


He said the suggestion was being made because many university graduates were not good enough to be employed by industries.
“Law students attend Law School for one year before going for NYSC and medical students go for one year Houseman ship before they are allowed to practice fully, so it will be necessary for other courses to also go through this process,” Mr Anwukah said.
“The Lagos Business School can also serve as a one year after-school training,” he added.
“The universities are producing products that are not matching the needs of the industries. I urged the Committee of Pro-chancellors and Committee of Vice-Chancellor to end the decline in the standard of education,” he said.


“The SIWES projects introduced for a year industrial attachment for students has failed in the universities. It is not doing its role in bridging the gap between the universities and the industries,” he said.
He said that re-schooling would serve as a training ground for graduates to be well equipped on the rudiments of the course studied.
In his address, the Chairman of NUC board, Prof. Ayo Banjo, said the quality of Nigerian universities product failed due to poor quality research, saying, a graduate who cannot think properly is unworthy of the certification.


While calling for adequate funding to enable the universities fulfil its mandate, he said the presence of government subventions must be felt and visible in the Nigerian universities to meet and achieve excellence.
Prof Banjo, however urged the Nigerian varsities to open their doors to West African students to help them boost their revenue and also consider additional reform of the curriculum to help produce excellent graduates.


The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed said the fundamental problems facing the university system are poor leadership, general underperformance and inadequate teaching and learning environment.
He said the consequence of poor leadership had undermined the capacity of universities in achieving its mandate.
According to him, the NUC in collaboration with CPC and CVC decided to organise the retreat for the governing council of all 42 federal universities to provide solutions to the problems confronting the universities system.
He therefore urged participants to remain focus in the deliberations and better equip themselves with proper leadership to move the universities forward.


We’re trying to sell an idea - Prof Anwukah
Contacted by Daily Trust to throw more light on the proposal, the minister said: “We are trying to sell an idea, the proposal is to get into our university system the re-schooling concept, that is you finish your university degree may be add one more year as a finishing school project, I don’t know how it is going to sell ... but the idea has come as a result of the failure of SIWES system in the universities.


“We try to address the relationship between the universities, the industries and the graduates, how they can fit in and we introduced the SIWES project and it is not working and it is not providing that bridge between the industries because the most industries are unwilling to accept most students on the SIWES programme.


“We want to brainstorm and see whether we can add one additional year so that when a student finishes from the university he can now go out to industries for one year internship for that job. For instance, the law department had one extra year after the law programme they go to law school, doctors go for one additional year.


“Are we going to continue with the SIWESS experiment which is not working or we are going to brace up to introduce an additional year of re-school whereby you spend that one year in any industry.
For instance, the Lagos Business School can serve as one year learning experience for students in business, accountancy and others, the NTA school in Jos can handle that of journalists
Experts’ reaction


Professor of Developmental Education, University of Abuja, Prof Salisu Ingawa said that is not the solution and it may never work.
“Who is going to do it, it is capital intensive, how long will it take to come to practice? So all these graduates will be waiting till such institutions are set so that they can get employed,” he said.
He pointed out that the proposed Technology Village which has not been developed should have been able to address such challenge.


“That is why the industries are crying out that graduates of Nigeria are of no value to them because when they employ them they have to retrain them at a very high cost.
He noted that the synergy between the producers of manpower and the end users is not there, saying, “even if they send them for that one year, who will make the input of the content of what these graduates will be doing in the institutions or whatever he calls it, and who is going to pay for the services there, is it the employer?”
According to him, over 50 per cent of the graduates are employed by the public sector, adding that it.


“It should be the smallest sector, ie the private sector is the largest employer but in Nigeria the private sector is narrowing by the day because the ease of doing business in Nigeria is very difficult.”
He however said the immediate solution is partnership with the industries which is the end user.
He called for review of curriculum of universities because knowledge is dynamic and changing by seconds.


A professor of communication at Bayero University Kano, (BUK) Prof Umaru Pate said it might be difficult but that, it is ideal but the implementation is going to be problematic.
Prof Pate said the industries to absolve the graduate when they come may not be readily available and that could mean that the candidates would have to line up for them to be absolved.


He said: “The availability of the supervisors to be taken to the industries is yet another issue and who will pay for their participation in the system because right now some SIWES that some of the departments participate in are experiencing some challenges or do you expect the students to also raise the money or the government to start another NYSC, so the issue of finance is a problem."


On the solution , he said one probable way of doing it is to encourage the various departments especially those professionally inclined to strengthen their industrial attachment and that could mean separating the attachment maybe from 100 level to say 300 level to spend three months in the industry and the rest of the period in the school.
The Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof Nasiru Idris said the proposal is not something new.


“You may wish to know that, already Environmental courses, engineering courses, medical courses are all running five year programmes and also, all courses in the Universities of Technology in Nigeria are 5 years programmes and the reason for this is to compliment theories with practice,” he said.
“In developed countries, degree programs are 3 years and they produce the best with no even the so called industrial attachment. Furthermore, government should declare state of emergency in the education sector.” he added.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/amplite/minister-wants-one-year-reschooling-for-graduates.html

245 first class - that's cool.

If they had attended a private school, you would start hearing nonsense like come and repeat it in federal unis.
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