FG Plans To Increase School Fees To N350,000 In Federal Universities - ASUU
;
It has been reported that the
Federal Government was making plans to increase the school fees in Federal
Universities to Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N350,000).
This was disclosed by the zonal
coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ibadan Zone, Dr. Ade
Adejumo while addressing members of the Correspondents Chapel in Ibadan.
According to him, when ASUU
inquired how the students will raise such money, ASUU was told that the
government will establish Education Bank, where students will access credit
facilities and pay back on completion of their studies.
“The union, speaking from the
background that education is the right and not privilege of every Nigerian
child, made frantic efforts to make pragmatic explanations on the negative
implications and the non-feasibility of this scheme to representatives of
government to no avail.” He revealed.
He further disclosed that this
proposal from the Federal Government led to the break down of the 2017/2018
renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement; stressing that there could be
labour crisis in federal universities as a result of the insensitivity of the
Nigerian government to issues critical to the survival of the educational
system in Nigeria.
Adejumo however stated that
ASUU would do everything to resist this move by the Federal Government.
Comments
Post a Comment
Disclaimer: All comments on this blog are the thought and opinion of blog readers, We will not in anyway be liable for them. Thank you.