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"In 2021, Nigeria still has one of the largest birth rate in the world with 5.4 children per woman"

Are people still obsessed these days with giving birth to so many kids that they can't even give the best to

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HigherEd:
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.

Nigeria - where right is wrong and wrong is right.

Gamer999:
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.

Why is there no Yahaya Bello to bless in your post...abi is he not worth your blessing..?

5.4 children per woman?

Are you serious?

Emmerlee:
"In 2021, Nigeria still has one of the largest birth rate in the world with 5.4 children per woman"
Are people still obsessed these days with giving birth to so many kids that they can't even give the best to

It's shocking, disturbing and annoying at the same time.

Haba!!!

HigherEd:
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.

Cut down on the effing birth rate...
Most of Nigeria’s problem today stems from a runaway population.

And unfortunately it’s generally those who can least afford it who have the most kids...
At IDP camps, they are busy breeding like rabbits when some already have more than double-digit kids.

Unfortunately, there’s no consequence for having kids you cannot support...
Sadly these kids are consigned to begging, Almajiri or simply abandoned to their own devices.
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Quality is very important. They destroyed elementary education and I hope this doesn't happen to tertiary education.

GboyegaD:
Quality is very important. They destroyed elementary education and I hope this doesn't happen to tertiary education.

Who destroyed elementary education?? And how?

Focus on providing JOBS... You bunch of dull heads


When they graduate where do they work if not that you are scamming them with education ... Jobs is what you need to provide idiots....


Jobs!!!! Kai

The bigger problem are jobs.
Not more universities.

The higher institutions in Nigeria are already enough.

There's really need to check population growth in Nigeria especially the northern part of the country! The rate at which our population is soaring is alarming! Think about how bad things could become when we hit a population size of 1billion. With just 200million, the poverty rate is this bad not to talk of when we are up to a billion. Cannibalism might become the order of the day that time o!

The southern part of the country at least have a system that helps check population already, viz-a-viz late marriage, not giving birth to too many kids, and monogamy coupled with better education and interactions with the western world. However, same cannot be said about the north where they believe in political and religious dominance through population explosion, hence they encourage polygamy, early marriage, giving birth to many kids with less number of people (especially girl child) being exposed to western education. In fact, the way the country is going right now, everything is tilted in favour of northern dominance such that they determine who becomes the president of the country. If this continues, I fear that even the "islamization" people keep talking about might just materialize effortlessly one day.

Please I support the building of more universities especially in the north, so that those our brothers up there could be educated enough to see the dangers they're putting the country into when they reproduce uncontrollably.

After all the money spent. Majority will go into bitcoin sales, import and export, hair and cream business. These things dont even need a degree

You have your points. The people against the licensing of more private universities also have their point.

What do you think is one essential macroeconomic objective of government?

It's wealth and income re-distribution....

Nigeria is heading for doom, not necessarily because of poverty. She is heading for doom because of the gap between the rich and poor.

Ask yourself...

If millions are getting poor education, don't you think the few who get world class education will take away all the opportunities there are in the economy?

I'm not telling you what I'm imagining. I'm telling you what is happening already.

Go to Big 4 firms, for instance. The majority there are from private universities. Not because they are necessarily more intelligent, but because they have had "assumed" better education and better exposure.

And how were they able to do it? Well, because their parents can afford to give them an un-subsidized higher education, of course.

Licensing more private universities makes economic sense. But think again does it make social sense? Does it help create a society with equity?

TSBO:
Who destroyed elementary education?? And how?

Private schools did. When the government was in charge, they maintained standards. With private schools, many things changed. Kids no longer fail otherwise the parents move them to the next school. Quite many lacked basic facilities.

CodeTemplar:
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.

you this HigherEd and your alternate monicker sef

Very correct

The container of Gari used to be #2,200 from the producer, we are buying it now at the rate of # 9,000 within the period of less than 2years and no UNIVERSITY foresaw this especially UNIVERSITY of Agriculture yet we are building more Universities with no or little Economic impacts. Las las everybody go dey alright.

What will it profit a country if it has hundreds of Universities and still can't produce toothpick indigenously

cross the T's and dot the I's let see who will get my point.

At the end of the day, we will be giving employment yo quacks who will further breed more quacks turning the country into a greater sh*t hole....

I expect all public universities to finally get dilapidated,
The fact that people are getting poorer means the poor would keep getting poorer,
Getting stuck in the system that has ensured they are destroyed,
See the game?

Our politicians act without first thinking...
Do we want so many universities without the necessary facilities to groom graduates out of schools or...
Have we been able to manage the ones we already have.
Our school are not yet standard, make them standard before thinking of other ones.
Somebody said it will create more jobs especially for PhD holders, why are our thinking so shallow?
The school we already have suppose to assist us in a way to create more jobs even outside the school system if we are serious...

Omokowa:
Our politicians act without first thinking...
Do we want so many universities without the necessary facilities to groom graduates out of schools or...
Have we been able to manage the ones we already have.
Our school are not yet standard, make them standard before thinking of other ones.
Somebody said it will create more jobs especially for PhD holders, why are our thinking so shallow?
The school we already have suppose to assist us in a way to create more jobs even outside the school system if we are serious...

You don't know what you are saying. Read again. This time with a open mind.

We need more

HigherEd:
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.

You forgot to add that a university open up areas, creat jobs for the immediate environment, boost the local economy. What about the non academic staff??

CSTRR:
The bigger problem are jobs.
Not more universities.

The higher institutions in Nigeria are already enough.

University also provide jobs.

ABU, Zaria has more staff (workers) than NNPC Kaduna

Start rejoicing if you have the qualifications to become a lecturer, technologist, Librarian, administrator/secretary, security staff, Sport scientist, hall administrator, e. t. c.

Nawa.

CSTRR:
The bigger problem are jobs.
Not more universities.

The higher institutions in Nigeria are already enough.

They are not enough