INTERVIEW: JAMBHQ Approved Low Cut-Off Mark For Varsity Admission To Appease Owners Of Private Universities—ASUU President |Sahara Reporters When we keep proliferating institutions that we don't plan to fund, we compound problem of education... READ MORE:
Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities , speaks with SaharaReporters on the decision of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board , which recently approved 160 and 140 as the cut-off marks for 2020/2021 public and private university admissions, among other issues.
You would have seen that even though we have over 70 private universities in Nigeria, they still have less than five per cent of the students’ population. What that means for them is that they will run out of business if they do not attract more students. That is why we have been advocating that the focus should be on the public university; by addressing quality education in Nigeria. Private universities, essentially, are established to meet the needs of the elites.
It is because of that fear that JAMB must bend backwards to accommodate their interest. That low cut-off mark is to appease owners of private universities, not public ones. What we need are not necessarily new universities but an expansion, renovation of the existing ones, stocking their libraries and equipping their laboratories such that we can have state-of-the-art facilities to train 21st-century graduates.
Why would the government establish universities that they don't have plans to fund? In other climes, when you establish a new university, you would have something like a five-year plan to develop the university, but that hardly happens here. Once they create a new university by fiat, they will turn to TETFUND to get money for the take-off. The 12 new universities established by the Jonathan administration, took money from TETFUND.
We have to place an embargo on establishing new tertiary institutions and come back to our agreement that they will re-fertilize existing public universities with a total of N1.3tn.
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