₦airaland Forum

Slurity:
Wake up from your dream to reality my friend. What is the population of students then and sophistication of courses offered in those days as compared to now? If you want free education please go back to 1970s and enjoy yours.

martowskin1:
i get u, we keep spending heavily on governance and complaining about cost of education.... do u know how many student the upkeep of one senator will train?

put it what ever way.... it becomes expensive when the masses are involve, but is not expensive when it involves paying them large salaries

tactius:
Look, according to the 2009 ASUU/FG agreement, universites need at least 1.5 trillion in EXTRA funding per annum to be 'adequately funded'

Since 2009, more government universites have been set up, and the amount should now be 3 trillion in extra funding.

It costs N1 trillion to fund our national assembly, and possibly 500m for ASO rock.

Assuming we want to cut costs, we would at best get 750million from that.

And at the end of the day, we still have to fund primary and secondary schools. And polytechincs and colleges of education.

See the problem?

martowskin1:
now lets take for example.... our government universities, do u know there is hardly any government own university that its school fees is bellow 6figure?

is not like the government is carrying all the burden.... the issue is some individuals are some where looting this funds without puting them into use

IvarTheTerrible:
[b] I paid approximately 14,000 pounds GBP for a Masters online with University of London. Regular international students pay like 25,000.

The local students pay 7,000 GBP.

My point is this if a professor in the school is on a salary of like 60,000 GBP per annum, 3 international students with their tuition have paid his annual salary. NOTE - we are over 600 students online for this session.

But in University of Ilorin, their tuition is like 23000NGN per YEAR and a professor on a salary of like 400 - 600k/ MONTHLY. It means it would take like 20 students' annual tuition to pay for ONE professor's salary.

This wide disparity will never help us. The sad truth is that a lot of students will drop out but tuition fees have to be initially increased....when standards become high and we get international patronage, we can now reduce the fees for locals (Nigerians) Universities should be given more autonomy in generating funds

Call me callous and devious, but Universities should do steady brainwashing of its students. Keep reinforcing this message "ALUMNI SHOULD GIVE BACK" and increase standards. Stanford University alumni got $1 billion dollars in alumni donations in 2013 ONLY! Professors too shouldn't just be PROFs in title only. Their pay should be commensurate with their contributions to knowledge/research/community.[/b]

I will edit this rather clumsy message later, i am off to work!

starstaz:
Mr Thinker man . Good points. Well articulated.

Before preaching nonsensical idealism and shoving it down our throat. Can you also correlate while this your beautiful idealism is hindered when there is no parity between dollars and Naira and pounds.

As at last check

1 Pound: will fetch u how many naira

1 Dollar: will fetch you 350 naira.

I will support this your idealism if the Government who deliberately turn the masses to pauper thorough incompetent economic policies throughout the years and decades past can restore the strength of the naira to something like 1 dollar to Ten naira.

I conclude that there is a positive correlation between the strength of the economic power of a country and the strength of their University education.

U cannot destroy our economy by your incompetence and turn around to blame us that the only way to receive Qualitative education is by paying what Cambridge or Oxford offers.

Nwaforj44:
The Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), has said universities cannot continue to survive on government largesse, adding that they must learn to invest and improve on revenue generation.

Speaking during the conferment of postgraduate and honorary degrees at UNILAG’s 50th Convocation Ceremony, the senior lawyer said Nigerians universities cannot continue to survive as “government departments expecting government largesse”.

Babalakin said while there had been a raging battle on whether education should be funded by government alone or by government and all stakeholders, his position was that quality education “is an inescapable necessity”.


“It is a must that we all have to be properly educated; so, if government can afford to do it all on its own, so be it. But if government cannot afford it, then we all must join forces to do it. If the choice is between quality education and free education, I choose the former.”

Citing examples of universities that have worked hard to be self-sufficient, Babalakin said: “Harvard University today has an average of $36 billion; while Oxford and Cambridge Universities jointly have 22 billion Pounds (about $30 billion). One College in Cambridge (Trinity College) has $1.3 billion. How did these universities achieve this? The founders of these universities realised that universities must invest, create value, save money and be productive.

“Our universities cannot continue to survive as government departments, expecting government largesse. We have to take advantage of what we have got. There are no less that 50 Nigerians today, who can rebuild UNILAG, but they have to know that their contributions would be used appropriately and they would be able to measure performance and monitor their money.

“If you can assure them of these, then you will be on the road to rebuilding the university system in a manner that it can compete all over the world. There is nothing such as Nigerian education or Nigerian standard. Standard must be universal and world-wide.”

Babalakin thanked President Muhammadu Buhari, for his “very keen interest and determination to reposition education in Nigeria”.

He also thanked the Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, “whose commitment to the cause of repositioning the education system is unparalleled.” He also lauded the efforts of as the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Alhaji Abubakar Rasheed, who represented the president at the event.

Urging the Ph.D graduates to see their degree as a pedestal for greater achievements, the pro-chancellor said: “I want you to be part of a great reformation of Nigeria. I want you to be instrumental to positive change. I want you to be developmental in your various fields and refuse to accept defeat. You are special members of the intelligentsia and you shouldn’t take it for granted.

“I urge you to take the position of United States President John F. Kennedy when he came into power in 1959, that the torch had been passed to a new generation that will not be deterred by the frivolities and obstructions of the former. Let us decide that we’ll turn every stumbling block to a stepping stone for the attainment of greater heights.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/08/babalakin-varsities-cant-survive-on-govt-funding/%3famp

IvarTheTerrible:
Obviously you got the classic Nigerian University education.....

I wouldn't be surprised if you paid for your grades because you sounded so much like an illiterate miracle center dropout.


When you are ready to make sense, try again.

folake4u:
True. That's why you gotta follow Uniben' s footsteps and begin producing bread and table water

martowskin1:
Said by those who went to school with free education from govt..... When I call this nation scam people say I dey lie ....

kolafolabi:
Subventions cannot be stopped in Nigeria unless students pay between 800k - 1million Naira per session. That's the fact!

CodeTemplar:
Lol...they can't step up and produce chocolate or pounded yam machine. Even our academicians appear to be suffering brain clog.

CodeTemplar:
Your estimate isn't far from mine but the schools need to be accountable for the around 300k they are getting per student.
When they become more efficient and transparent then I can support the idea of student being made to cough out huge sums of money.
Let every school be accountable to all students and the public at large and let's see what they spend their money on.

CodeTemplar:
Why aren't the missionaries who offered free education then still offering it free or even cheap today?

martowskin1:
Said by those who went to school with free education from govt..... When I call this nation scam people say I dey lie ....

martowskin1:
now lets take for example.... our government universities, do u know there is hardly any government own university that its school fees is bellow 6figure?

is not like the government is carrying all the burden.... the issue is some individuals are some where looting this funds without puting them into use

asuustrike1:
The population of then and now are not the same. The stupidity of the universities admitting more students beyond its capacity is absurd

CodeTemplar:
Is there any good alternative like polytechnic or technical school? Hardly.

asuustrike1:
None but education then was better off. No crowding of students in class, some students eat free meal daily, the hostels were good. Instead of the government establishing more federal or state universities as the case may be, they should have upgraded the existing ones.

CodeTemplar:
Let's be honest, those good old days of freebies are gone forever.
If they should admit few students on order to preserve those privileges then many people will seat at home. in fact profs will be organizing jamb lessons because it will become much more lucrative.

asuustrike1:
Yes it is better than churning half baked graduates. So what do you suggest anyway?

tactius:
Look, according to the 2009 ASUU/FG agreement, universites need at least 1.5 trillion in EXTRA funding per annum to be 'adequately funded'

Since 2009, more government universites have been set up, and the amount should now be 3 trillion in extra funding.

It costs N1 trillion to fund our national assembly, and possibly 500m for ASO rock.

Assuming we want to cut costs, we would at best get 750million from that.

And at the end of the day, we still have to fund primary and secondary schools. And polytechincs and colleges of education.

See the problem?

wink2015:
BABALAKIN,

Our politicians are very corrupt that is why the government is finding it very difficult to fund education in Nigeria.

There is a lot of money in Nigeria that can guarantee FREE AND QUALITATIVE EDUCATION.

It is the political class that is the problem.

Allocate money for education, the money is embezzled or looted.

Our universities can not run research centres, can not develop alternative revenue base.

ALL THIS ARE THE RESULT OF OUR CORRUPT WAY OF LIFE IN NIGERIA.