ijustdey:


https://guardian.ng/news/crisis-looms-in-varsities-over-mass-exodus-of-lecturers/

Splitmind:


Yes we don't care if you like cry!

nairalanda1:


1.This shows that there has been 8 years of disaster, and the effects of corruption. I have to mention this

2.It also shows the effect of low fees, low fees and did I say low fees and low income.

In 2018, the then VC of ABU Zaria gave a speech. In the speech, he made two comments that I am going to list below

1.His overhead costs for the previous year were 600 million naira. Government gave him 120 million. Where is he going to find the remainder of the money

2.If you want Cambridge level universities, pay Cambridge level fees.


Now, you are free to insult, abuse, mock, call me insensitive, call me the son of a canine, etc.

But our universites are and always have been BROKE. And underfunded. As a result, we cannot do high quality research, pay high quality salaries, and pay for high quality facilites. The hostels and living accomodation are shanties, and the staff accomodation is no better either( by the late 1980's, staff living in university accomodation had to pay for repairs out of their pocket, because the unis had no money)

Back to ABU. ABU's budget was N25 billion naira or 26 million pounds.. Cambridge uni.. 2 billion pounds with an endowment of 9 billion pounds.

Let that sink in.

Let that sink in.

And yet, many people come here and expect our universites to be like Cambridge on such small fees. Expect them to conduct world class research on such small fees.


Nigerians, make we think.

We have these choices.

1.We can raise fees, or let the unis set fees...so that they can earn money and pay for improvements, and retain staff..

2.We can do as Denmark does and pay for free education with half our annual income...that is everyone from Dangote and Ned to the beggar on the street.

3.Or we can pretend university is cheap, and continue to lose staff numbers, and lose retention of people.


It goes beyond APC, PDP, and LP....because this headline...awas the same headline in the 1980's 1990's 20000's and even as recently as 10-15 years ago. University lecturers have been japaing for DECADES. I mean for decades. We don't have enough lecturers, and enough spaces....because we think that cambridge level education costs less than N20000 a year, when it is actually more than 2 million.

But we got to let the poor breathe, eh?

xandy84:
Like I said earlier, you have valid points but the term "world class" is subjective. I graduated from Unilag and I presently live in an area that has 3 universites. Namely, ODU, NSU and EVMS in Virginia. These universites are considered top notch but add all these universites together in term of structure, they are below Unilag. Our educational institutions need urgent financial interventions but still not the worse and our best will compare and compete with the so called world class universites in US and UK.
I used to live few miles down the road from Chicago state university. CSU is not bigger, not finer, does not have a better structures than Unilag. That is a fact



But they have better facilities. Check that out

pongwa:
Mr. Man if you wanna leave, leave

Bizibi:
mtcheeew.....

vislabraye:


Stop all this selective arguments. Why must you compare our schools to those of UK ?
WHAT about Germany, Sweden, Russia to mention but a few that offer free education or pay nominal fees ?

RepoMan007:

You and your stupid arguments again. After petrol subsidy, it is education subsidy.

Is Cambridge the only school in the world? If we pay lecturers by Cambridge standard, will they pay utility bills at same cost in UK? Or eat at same cost in UK? Or move around at same rate as UK? Or pay taxes at same rate? Or leave girls alone like Cambridge lecturers do?

Your brain should tell you it isnt the same thing to live in UK and Nigeria so same labour should never be rewarded based on profession but on many factors.

grandstar:


Never argue based on sentiments. nairalanda1 made a lot of sense.

When he said Cambridge, he isn't saying pay the same wage as Cambridge but pay them sufficiently so they can put in their best.

It would be nice if university tuition could be free but if free means poor quality and substandard graduates, then why live in fantasy?

xandy84:
Like I said earlier, you have valid points but the term "world class" is subjective. I graduated from Unilag and I presently live in an area that has 3 universites. Namely, ODU, NSU and EVMS in Virginia. These universites are considered top notch but add all these universites together in term of structure, they are below Unilag. Our educational institutions need urgent financial interventions but still not the worse and our best will compare and compete with the so called world class universites in US and UK.
I used to live few miles down the road from Chicago state university. CSU is not bigger, not finer, does not have a better structures than Unilag. That is a fact

RepoMan007:
I will pretend I believe you in entirety.

He has that trait of going allout to serve as mouthpiece for western ideas here. Western ideas that enslave us allover again.

This same argument has been repeated by him before and is very wrong. If you pay lecturers by western standard, will you pay doctors, lawyers, teachers, and public servants generally by same standard. If I charge you N500 for a 75cl bottled water will you willingly pay? We want to westernize cost of service but not service standard. That's severe stupidity in my opinion.

nairalanda1:


Germany, Sweden all pay tax rates at a very high state that if your government implemented it, you would cry well well.

They also got higher GDP than Nigeria.

Try harder.

vislabraye:


UK pay higher rate than the countries I mentioned. Just check out the list.

Here are the top 10 highest taxed countries:

Belgium: 79.5% 🇧🇪
Finland: 66.75% 🇫🇮
Portugal: 64% 🇵🇹
United Kingdom: 63.25% 🇬🇧
Switzerland: 59.7% 🇨🇭
Aruba: 58.95% 🇦🇼
Estonia: 58.4% 🇪🇪
Denmark: 57.11% 🇩🇰
Japan: 55% 🇯🇵

If not for corruption, Nigeria knows how to manage it's resources. Just look at the cost of governance in this administration and previous one.
There's paucity of funds yet you collected over N500bn and shared amongst the Judiciary, presidency and the senate.
Nigeria is being mismanaged and it's getting worse

FreeStuffsNG:
They will come back and queue behind those courageous and patriotic ones who stay back We have travelled this road before.

kafeii123:

nairalanda1:



Compared to them, Nigeria is below 10%

There is a reason why they have enough funds and we don't.

Plus 500 bn may seem a lot of money, but the harsh truth is, we should be earning something like 50 trillion or more naira.

Nigeria needs to diversify its economy. Simple.

vislabraye:


That's not true. You're saying what you don't know. Maybe you're talking about VAT which is 7.5%. But there are other types of taxes.

nairalanda1:


Oga, Nigeria needs to diversify its economy. Ouil money is not enough for this country.

vislabraye:


Of course. And what is the FG doing about it ?

FreeStuffsNG:
I am sure that you are too young to get my point. Those who stayed back are the Bosses of those who left to return many years after leaving. After educating you with tax payers money and you immediately leave overseas. Smh, you can't cheat others and think you will get a permanent edge. That's why no single Nigerian in diaspora has made the Forbes.