Skilled advocates tuition charges in federal universities

The Federal Authorities has been suggested to introduce the cost of tuition charges in federal universities to satisfy the calls for of the hanging lecturers and finish the continued strike launched into by members of the Tutorial Workers Union of College.

An educationist, Dr Oluwatosin Adebayo, stated this on Friday whereas talking in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on the 2022 stakeholders’ discussion board and presentation of scholarship awards to over 1,000 indigent admission seekers from the South-West.

Adebayo, who’s the African Regional President of Scholarship Aids Initiatives, a non-governmental organisation, insisted that cost of tuition charges by college students of federal universities remained one of many viable options to the poor funding of schooling within the nation.

The Federal Authorities as a part of efforts at selling free schooling had in 2018 barred all federal universities from charging tuition charges.

However Adebayo argued that free schooling, particularly on the tertiary establishment degree, was now not achievable within the nation, therefore such universities should cost tuition charges to enhance the subventions coming from the federal government.

Talking on the theme, ‘Incessant strike motion within the tertiary establishments: The current and future impact on Nigeria schooling and financial system’, Adebayo lamented that strike had by no means made any optimistic affect however destroyed the schooling sector.

“We now have by no means seen any optimistic affect that this strike methodology has introduced out. I consider that there needs to be different methods during which ASUU and the federal government come collectively and resolve their variations.

“Strike is just not the perfect answer as a result of it’s killing our instructional system, the system goes down, our certificates should not being acknowledged anyplace any longer and we carry on deceiving ourselves.

“I’m a lecturer as nicely and we’ve advised many issues to resolve disaster as an alternative of strike. A part of what we’ve advised is that, college students of federal universities needs to be paying faculty charges. College students of Federal universities don’t pay tuition charges.

“Schooling is pricey; the Federal Authorities should enable college students of Federal universities to pay faculty charges. The mother and father are able to pay and the cash generated from this faculty can be utilized to finance no matter the issue is”, Adebayo stated.

Adebayo that though, schooling stays the fitting of each Nigerian, “however the Federal authorities lacks the capability to supply free schooling”, urging the federal government to cease making guarantees it can not fulfil.