The Vice-Chancellor (VC), Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Prof. Joshua Olalekan Ogunwole, has appealed to the National Assembly to review the enabling law establishing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) with a view to accommodating private tertiary institutions in the country. Ogunwole also challenged private universities’ operators and other stakeholders to lobby the National Assembly members, who according to him, “ also have students in many of the private universities while some are relatives, friends and stakeholders in private universities.”
The Vice-Chancellor , Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Prof. Joshua Olalekan Ogunwole, has appealed to the National Assembly to review the enabling law establishing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund with a view to accommodating private tertiary institutions in the country.The Vice-Chancellor , Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Prof.
The Vice-Chancellor said reviewing existing TETFund law in favour of private tertiary institutions was a legitimate demand and was in consonance with the extant constitutional duty of the government, by making education accessible to her citizens. Instead of promoting cooperation, collaboration and healthy competitiveness in research and academic excellence needed by every country for transformation and development.
On incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities , the scholar cautioned both the Federal Government and ASUU, and lamented that as commendable as ASUU’s demands were, especially in the overall development of education and making university education accessible to all Nigerians, the union ought to face the stark reality that Nigeria is running a capitalist economy and not a welfarist state.
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