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Public Universties May Not Survive Unless, It's Fees Are Increased - UNIPORT VC by mrpackager(op): 9:42am On Jun 12, 2015

. The Vice chancellor of University of Port Harcourt
has bemoaned the poor state of the nation’s
economy and warned that except public universities
are allowed to increase school fees, they may soon
collapse due to poor funding.

He stated this during the press briefing in view of
the institutions 30th Convocation Ceremony.
According to him, the critically needed funding for
institutions by the government is dwindling by the
day, in the face of failing oil prices, while the
average cost of running each university is
correspondingly escalating by the day.

“The truth is that statutory federal allocations alone
can no longer be relied upon to run the universities
as little or nothing is left to embark on meaningful
research and infrastructural development after
payment of salaries.

As I have always maintained,
the plain truth is that we can no longer shy away
from giving serious consideration to the issue of
introducing some form of school fees (or charges)
in the Nigerian university system, if we hope to dig
it out of the deep morass into which years of
unrealistic tuition-free education has placed it.”

In his opinion parents should pay a little more to
sustain the Nigerian university system if they still
hope to see public universities in the next 10 years;
adding that some Nigerians were prepared to pay
huge sums to sustain quality education in other
countries, and yet treat the ones here with utter
contempt.

source: http://myschool.com.ng/uniport/news/37279/public-universties-may-not-survive-unless-tuition-fees-are-increased-uniport-vc.html

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Re: Public Universties May Not Survive Unless, It's Fees Are Increased - UNIPORT VC by yemiisaac: 9:50am On Jun 12, 2015

Whaaaat?..smh

Re: Public Universties May Not Survive Unless, It's Fees Are Increased - UNIPORT VC by christejames(m): 9:59am On Jun 12, 2015

Everyone is now cashing in on the dwindling oil price to perpetuate their selfish task. This reminds me of one guvnor in state of Osun... The VC should devise a way of increasing its IGR instead of making the poor Nigerian parents to keep gnashing their teeth in pain...

Re: Public Universties May Not Survive Unless, It's Fees Are Increased - UNIPORT VC by mrpackager(op): 10:00am On Jun 12, 2015

yemiisaac:
Whaaaat?..smh

abi oooo

***shey increasing fees will now solve the sh**

it won't!!!!.......,..rather leading to
***prostesting then STRIKE....which i FEAR

Re: Public Universties May Not Survive Unless, It's Fees Are Increased - UNIPORT VC by yemiisaac: 10:29am On Jun 12, 2015

mrpackager:
abi oooo ***shey increasing fees will now solve the sh** it won't!!!!.......,..rather leading to ***prostesting then STRIKE....which i FEAR

Na strike dem kuku like

Re: Public Universties May Not Survive Unless, It's Fees Are Increased - UNIPORT VC by mrpackager(op): 10:37am On Jun 12, 2015

yemiisaac:
Na strike dem kuku like

lolz

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