There is an unending debate on sources of funding for the universities—especially public universities. First is the unyielding entitlement
philosophy in which parents, students and the labour unions believe that the governmentProfessor Olu Obafemi arouses further our pleasurable curiosities. Alternatives to funding public universities?
Even when verified and confirmed or denied, this is just a droplet from the whooping mass and depths of the corruption cesspit that has ravaged our country, including the frightening disappearing billions by ‘mistake,’ ‘snakes’ or sheer dramatised amnesia of sudden kleptocrats with psychotic streaks! All these and more make it unimaginable that government can come and say that they cannot fund education.
Greater reluctance of government towards funding education is through the eagerness to shift funding from government to students and their parents, referencing, disingenuously, the possible lesson learnt from the Empire, Britain, which at some point, from the 2015 Budget of Chancellor Osborne to Prime Minister Theresa May by an act of policy, resolved to make “future students contribute to the cost of their studies, including the level, terms and duration of their contribution; the replacement...
Historically speaking, there were bright initial climes for Higher Education in our country before this rather bleak season set in. These were periods of the rapid growth of Nigerian universities—First, Second and Third Generations public universities). The truth to be told from the university education of people of my generation in the seventies to the early eighties was that, at least in the North, education was virtually free — funded through States and Federal scholarships, with adequate allowances which we called ‘Bulgaria.’ The case was less so for our counterparts from the Southern States but where many students still enjoyed fair support from the states and federal government.
The Committee of Pro-Chancellors and Governing Councils of Federal and State universities in Nigeria independently worried about the decay in the universities under their watch, started to organise workshops to find a means of intervening and finding alternatives to government funding of universities. Patently concerned that
philosophy in which parents, students and the labour unions believe that the government
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