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nairalanda1:
Actually, it is cheap to study in NIgeria.

Want to read medicine in the UK? 19 million naira yearly

How about the USA? 100 million naira yearly.

That means their students take loans. (One American student owed 150000 dollars in student loans when she finished her medical studies. And it has to be paid back.A non-medical student doing his masters had to live in a van for the duration of his studies to do them without taking loans).

Nigeria is still cheap, especially since that 800000 naira is just less than 500 dollars. Per annum.

The reason why we have bad universites is because fees are dirt cheap here. SO, unis don't have cash to pay for many things.

Dbegining:
Nairaland and propaganda.

What the ate not telling you is that EKSU has just increased their school fees where sme students are to pat as high as N800,000 per session.

Those saying it's cheap to study in Nigeria and doctors should stay in Nigeria, Gid will punish you.

darc:
Very Good, Other States should do the same.

Architect Active

bcomputer101:
You're always bitter.
Is your brain doing menstruation?

djseanjohn77:
See how you sound? That's still $500 compared to over $25k in abroad, the question you should ask yourself is, in abroad, how many of their children are able to pay those fees without loan from government?
If the truly have the number cos people assume they earn well, if truly that's the case, they should be able to pay for these basic things outrightly and no need for loans, mortgages, finance or credit -
While it is good to have credit, loan etc facilities to assist you meet your goals, it remains a debt on your neck for a good time of your life, that's why inability to pay back by these people pushes them into drugs, depression etc.
I decided 2 years ago, to put my credit card away, i am not on any loan as i speak, or any form of mortgage, but have been able to manage my fundings within this period effectively.
While in Nigeria, they say people are poor, but most of those poor build their homes from scratch with their hard-earned money, buy rickety cars with their hard-earned money. Pay school fees with their hard-earned money.
$500 to $25k that's ration 1: 50,000, you wouldn't even spend 30% of the 25k to finish your studies in Nigeria.

Caseless:
How much you go charge for a design of a trailer park that can house 3000 trucks with filling station, clinic, hotel, convenience, fire station, mechanical workshops, relaxation point, administrative block, security outpost, etc?

Tommydare:
Very useless talk. Where you go see the 800k wey you dey talk

nairalanda1:
Enjoy your bad education then.

It's what you paid for

Tommydare:
Still a very useless talk. This same bad education has produced heroes.

nairalanda1:
It has, but the thing is, people like you will want our unis to be like the ones oversease without thinking about how much the people oversease spend to get there.

Tommydare:
The economy of those countries and Nigeria are not the same. You work and earn dollars, pounds which is far higher than naira. If you earn dollar you pay in dollars. You earn naira, you pay in naira for people wey dey naija. As people overseas dey complain say tuition fee is high, same shit dey go on here. Before you go see 800k pay as school fees you no know wetin your eyes go see? You might not even see it self. Only if you be yahoo boy na ein u go talk say 800k no be anything. The fact that overseas school fees are high doesn't makes school fees here chicken change. Btw, schooling abroad isn't a guarantee for success. Na government I blame sha, I no blame you

Osiris12:
where is the lie zombie.

Is the state rich?
Are there jobs in the state.

Seems part of becoming a zombie is denying what’s evident

bcomputer101:
Let me get you a bucket. You can cry me a river

nairalanda1:
1. It's also the truth. NO one said that the truth need be palatable

2. Again, the reality is university education...if you want it at quality level, is very very expensive.




Okey dokey.



It's also because medical education is very expensive on its own. UK used to have 'free medical education' until the number of students entering university grew so large beyond its government capacity that fees were charged

(I work in medicine, full disclosure).

Even with exchange rate, it is still very very expensive.





Our grandparents also went to universities

1. When there were only 4 of them

2. When the average population of a university was less than 3000 students

3. When most people did not go to university back then (of my parent's generation, they were of a tiny minority to go to university. Most of their generation never went there

4. When we had regional government, meaning that the education budget back then for say eg Northern Nigeria, was enough to pay for a beautiful university (and back then, most primary and secondary schools were shit and inadequate).

5. When we needed to train a lot of people to replace the whites leaving us.

By 1980s, the population had outgrown the ability of the government to maintain cheap quality education. The government chose cheap and threw away quality. Everything went downhill.

Also, the number of universites went up, way beyond the budget to keep them running well. That's why we have so many universites, sharing something like 4 billion dollars....which in the USA...probably would be used by one university to expand facilites.





Partly that, but the main reason is lack of adequate funding.

Nigerian universites, by my estimate, need at least N10 trillion naira for adequate funding to stay cheap. Our education budget is not up to 3 trillion, and it has to fund primay schools, secondary schools, poly, monotechnics, and coe, and universites.

Either fees go up, or we do as the Danes do. Take half the income of every Nigerian to fund a hefty budget.




It isn't. That's the sad thing. University is even the worst. Unis are research and educational areas...which means, as research is a changing thing, that you got to spend billions upgrading facilites every year. Also students need to live in comfort, so that is another billions . In dollars not naira.

Even those countries with 'free education'...most of their citizens pay taxes to the max at rates that even t-pain won't consider bringing into Nigeria. Here in Nigeria, only 30% of us pay taxes. OIl income, even if it went to T-pain's mythincal 4 million bpd...is not enough for a nation our size. And those taxes are used to fund the free education among other things.

Nigeria tried free quality education which worked until the cracks appeared in the 1980's...after which quality was sacrified for free.







LOL....I am telling you the very harsh truth. And in saner climes, many people complain about the cost of education. Infact, the best way they pay for student fees there is to open savings accounts for their kids as soon as they are born, and pay into it over time. Maybe the amount of loans would fall when the time comes for them to pay for university.

God knows I am not victim blaming, but if you want to think that way, na your own funeral.




Nigeria became a victim of bad governnance when our first post independence government chose to run our economy on revenue from raw materials instead of industrial development and extensive taxation. Result...we became the broke ass nation we are now.

Dutch disease.





Still cheap. That's 700 dollars approximately . US fees are fifty times that, UK fees are about 8 times that. Denmark? Free in return for you paying half your annual income to government coffers at the federal level.