… In any case, personal universities are pioneers of technological progress, compete with higher education establishments in evolved countries and raise the point of universities in Nigeria.This is basically at a time of mismanagement of public universities.Given the above, it is imperative that the government start taking note and providing much-needed assistance to personal universities.
The afterlife is a prologue. It is 2020, and more than any other year, it adds a touch of litmus of how well those establishments are aware of their daily work to the trend of conversion in education, studies and studies. carrying out other educational activities. Babcock University celebrated its graduation rite in the third week of August, demonstrating that a personal university can also serve and compete successfully with public universities. The scholars took their exams on the most sensitive of COVID-19. I do not base this point of view on second-hand wisdom, but on first-hand experience, adding the login on the institution’s online page to participate in the display of the graduation rite. In partnership with Arizona State University, we had a successful Zoom assembly on collaborative efforts. From my objective evaluation, I can verify the genius of Babcock University over many public universities, not only in Nigeria, but throughout Africa. Once again, in some other example that transcends existing circumstances, Lead City University, Ibadan and Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, in their infrastructure, are impressive for almost any state university in the country. The landscape of Caleb University is far more exciting than many federal government universities that are emerging as archetypes of suffering establishments, with replaced libraries, reading rooms and hostels. and overcrowding. Anyone with more than informal knowledge of the Redeemer University, Nigeria (RUN) campus and program, Ede, would see a more sensible quality program implemented. I do not judge universities on buildings, but also on concepts and ideals. I have reviewed doctorates in public and personal universities. I have lectured at either one and I can authoritatively tell you the quality of those establishments.
In fact, it is much less difficult for me to convene a convention at Lead City University than at any federal university, in terms of immediate response, organizational efficiency, immediacy of the attention of senior university officials and peace of mind than a strike Action through any of the unions will not result in cancellations of last-minute plans and schedules.If a PC is not painting, there is a touch user who takes care of it.Drivers have cars to drive, unlike some federal colleges where they move on to communicating without paintings to do.They are also organized. It will take me thirty minutes to succeed in Professor Ademola Tayo, Babcock’s humble vice-chancellor, and two weeks even to meet the tactile user of the vice-chancellor of a federal university, where the spirit is that of oga ta, oga o ta, owo alaru a pe.
The fact is that some of these personal universities are not only making progress, partnering and, in some cases, outpervising the quality of the comforts and training staff of public universities, but have also trained academics who are doing well in various fields.have placed many of their academics in leading universities for graduate systems because of their quality.
Although many of those personal colleges are still profit ventures, they at least get greater opportunities for their students, as opposed to their opposite numbers at public establishments. On the other hand, the profit query may even be exaggerated. I am a member of the Board of One and I can assure the establishment that no profit has been made in the last ten years. I speak with the vice-chancellors of two of those establishments: they are constantly wasting money. Pastor Adeboye, for example, supports the University of the Redeemer with monthly contributions. One owed 10 billion naira at a time. Noted and insightful Professor Kayode Makinde, a former Babcock vice chancellor and world leader, has established a medical school with loans that the establishment is still struggling to repay. I recently had a long meeting with the president of the board of one of those universities; wondered where to put the cash to pay staff salaries. Perhaps those personal colleges deserve to open their monetary records to the public. Someone is exaggerating the benefits they get. Logically, if you have to build your roads, stock up on electricity, stock up on water, and stock up on all the other facilities like garbage collection, recycling, and disposal that state and local governments deserve to stock up, where will the benefits come from?
COVID-19 has once again shown the gap between these establishments and those owned by the government.An acute joke circulating on social media recently made academics at federal universities laugh, who like to brag about their school degrees, with silly nicknames and exaggerated hymns labeling them “bigger,” forgetting that their personal college classmates are moving away from them during this lockdown and constantly in other circumstances.Many scholars of public universities are aware of their spaces and their sufferings.When they say “Amazing!” It’s nothing but a case of pride, the guy who has a son who insists on his mother’s oatmeal is superior.The scholars are fully aware of their deviation, just as I protect Nigeria in the worst circumstances, my expression of pride miswhere.
There is no doubt that the pandemic has widened an already massive gap between personal and public universities, and it is therefore no surprise that these establishments remain the saving grace of parents with the means to send their students to the universities of the country.and possibly become the redeeming quality of the relevance of higher education in Nigeria in the new post-COVID-19 global order.establishments, especially public establishments. Ironically, these opportunists formed at these public universities in their excellent beyond and benefited from the formula before their decline, but now they sit comfortably to oversee their funeral projects.
… While ASUU control maintained that online commands would work, Babcock University organized a virtual call.In August, Benson Idahosa University completed a full consultation and summer and resumed a new online consultation in September. Covenant is actively in consultation, while Afe Babalola University and Bowen University have recently completed their exams.
Given the current state of the school sector and relations between government and university unions, in particular the University Academic Staff Union (ASUU), an unpredictable school calendar can continue in the long run, implying that personal universities can simply be the long-term of higher education in Nigeria, just as personal schools number one and high schools have taken over other grades of the school formula in terms innovation, infrastructure, schooling and impact.
Confidence that personal universities may be only Nigeria’s long term has also been echoed through the National University Commission (UNC), i.e. in light of the shortcomings and massive mitigation disorders of public institutions.In fact, it is prudent to assume that the availability of Limited Resources would mean that many, if not all, parents and guardians would prefer to enroll their students in personal universities, knowing full well that the return would be investment-worthy.
We have serious questions to ask ourselves: what would become of those who cannot have a personal education?Can Nigeria cope with the pressure of an increasing number of uned education people?Is the ASUU paying attention to how moves can harm public establishments and the symbol of Western education as we know it?Do federal and state governments realize that the failure of public establishments allows good fortune from personal establishments?If personal universities become essential and necessary, how does the country allocate its resources to teaching?
That’s why I’m writing, to start starting conversations about whether we want to destroy public establishments and therefore do so more effectively.Crucial questions are wanted: Do states want to maintain their universities or continue to apply for funding from the Higher Education Trust Fund (TETFUND)?I once laughed while visiting a state university, many of whose buildings were made imaginable through TETFUND.So why would the state government create the university, if not to take advantage of the center’s resources?Do we want to sell public universities to personal investors, as the country has done with many state corporations to move national investments to a small group of rich people?Or do you deserve to be offered for free? It deserves an explanation why remain ibadan University, if the government does not want to fund it.
The effect of COVID-19 in the country has resulted in the closure of higher education establishments throughout the country. The same expectation as always would have been the suspension of school activities such as teaching, exams, registration and even calls. In fact, while this is true for federal and state universities, personal colleges have once proven to be leaders in the technological advancement of the school sector in the country. The imperative and complex use of ICT in all facets of daily life has become the norm in evolved countries around the world. ICT programs / media, especially WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Meet, Webinar and Telegram, are among the maximum true platforms used for school purposes, serving audio and audiovisual communications. In fact, these media have been followed in the main personal universities in the country, such as Babcock University, Covenant University, Bowen University, Benson Idahosa University, Afe Babalola University, American University of Nigeria. and the University of Crawford, among others. With the help of those technologies, while academics at government-controlled universities grow older at home, their colleagues at personal universities only feel that COVID-19 has an effect on communicating with their professors and friends through social media and not physically. With the state of technology in the 21st century, how can anyone explain or perceive that one of the famous federal universities simply does not provide academics with their transcripts due to the COVID-19 lockdown? In other words, personal colleges have temporarily embraced virtual / online learning, fully integrating their academics into a school procedure that, in effect, the effect of COVID-19 has been unable to slow down school progress. of their scholars, which retards them at all. As I noted earlier, while the ASUU leadership made sure that online commands would not work, Babcock University held a virtual call. In August, Benson University Idahosa finished a full semester and a summer and would resume a new semester online in September. Covenant is actively in session, while Afe Babalola University and Bowen University recently finished their exams. I’ve been tracking all of this, doing my research, to make sure those universities aren’t letting the public down. They were honest.
This shows that personal universities are pioneers in technological progress, compete with higher education establishments in evolved countries and raise the point of universities in Nigeria, this is basically at a time of mismanagement of public universities.On the road to public universities, it becomes imperative that the government start taking note and providing much-needed assistance to personal universities and establishments that have done a big deal to prevent a bad scenario from getting worse.
However, the enormous prestige and convenience of the aforementioned personal universities should not be misinterpreted in the sense that the scenario is the same in all personal universities in the country, that is, because there are personal universities, that is, those of new creation, that fight against the effect of COVID-19 and cannot serve at all.
… The TETFUND formula is expanded to include personal universities.After all, these are Nigerian universities that provide quality education to Nigerians.I sense the argument to the contrary: public money will not be used for Americans to make a profit.But scholarships for Nigerian academics who attend these schools give strength to our citizens.
1.The government provides moderate tax relief to “troubled” universities to help them financially.A tax relief or general exemption is the least the government can do;
State governments can help personal universities by contributing to infrastructure development.In fact, the Ogun state government, for example, has an annual budget to help Babcock, pride of the state.academics in the state of Ogun who attend college ?;
In addition, the TETFUND formula will be expanded to include personal universities.After all, these are Nigerian universities that provide quality education to Nigerians.I sense the argument to the contrary: public money will not be used for Americans to make a profit.Yes, but the scholarship for Nigerian academics attending these schools gives strength to our citizens; The corollary is that in doing so, it contributes to the state economy Funding studies that benefit society does not put cash in the wallet of founders No one refuses a scholarship to a Stanford University professor because he or she teaches in a personal school;
According to councils 1 and 2 above, the passing government can inspire beloved personal universities to reduce their enrolments and fees, which would allow more academics, thus reducing the number of failed programs each year.part of a million fellows a year who have not been admitted to universities. Perpetual disorders in these spaces and the inability to access personal establishments have led many other young people to abandon formal higher education.Using only any of the parameters would be a big step in strengthening those personal establishments, expanding their popularity and reducing the number of academics who cannot be admitted to the aforementioned establishments.
5.Se identifies here that such government intervention, as indicated in numbers 1 and 2 and its imaginable implications as indicated in the fourth point, can bastard personal universities, and may be only a matter of time before they reflect the conditions.public counterparts. Therefore, to ensure that government aid for these establishments does not erode the gains made through personal actors, who first reported these proposals, the National University Commission, the regulatory body, should be reformed for effective monitoring and operation.system.
In addition to the above, the government seeks to inspire wealthy Nigerians to invest in personal universities, especially troubled universities.These investments can take two forms. First, a wide variety of scholarships can be awarded to smart academics willing at those personal universities.The volume of these scholarships would lessen the tension in public universities.He’s purely altruistic. The other way is for Americans or commercial homeowners to invest with the mentality of reaping dividends.The government can inspire them to do so with dividends that do not come from school, but in the form of other mutually favorable concessions (i.e. tax relief, percentage reduction, etc..). It is a smart and popular global practice for governments to advertise charity with a tax-free allowance for Americans and a similar allowance for personal corporations for their spending on social media/services facilities and network progression projects.
7.De the same thing, government, at all levels, can necessarily sponsor the most productive academics in other states in a proportion equivalent to user universities.The construction of academics generates building income for user universities with almost the same expenses.therefore, the tuition fee, when distributed globally, will automatically reduce the fee according to the student.For example, if the charge of maintaining the resources used through five other people is 1 million naras and therefore the user pays 200,000 nars; Using the same resources with equivalent maintenance consistent with ten other people means that a user would be charged 100,000 nars.As a result, tuition fees are reduced and affordability increases.In the meantime, there will also be less tension in public universities.
8.Government, out of necessity, can inspire personal establishments such as banks, businesses and industries around newly created schools, some of which are in the middle of nowhere, to help personal establishments.This would not only be the progression of the infrastructure in the domain around it.schools, by reducing the monetary burden on schools and also draw attention to them, but also in achieving various objectives, as it means that more industries are being evolved and ”sterile” or not used until now.The country’s spaces are being positively transformed.
Our features are now accurate: expand public universities to their full capacity and expand personal universities to their full capacity.The truth of my answers proposed above is that they are simple to achieve, citizen, not only for personal universities but also for public universities and the country at large.
10.De with the above, the curriculum wants to be redesigned to reflect the truth of Nigeria’s labour market and social environment.Although people’s transnationality, skills and professionalism provide a job market of choice, it is not certain that, due to the complexities of this global system, only a few have access to this opportunity.Therefore, the programme will have to serve the developing group of “Nigerian diaspora”, whose only hope of developing their skills and diplomas remains their flight.A centuries-old link between a state economy and its school system.If SMEs are to be promoted, the economy will need to be reorganized and the school curriculum reinvented.
11.This domain is non-negotiable due to the centuries-old link between a state economy and its school system; if SMEs are to be promoted, the economy will need to be reorganized and the school curriculum reinvented.
If lack of public investment is the main challenge facing public schools, asking the government to fund personal universities can also be equated with direct confusion of priorities.Tax exemptions and discounts on other application fees in exchange for reduced rates to accommodate more Applicants would possibly seem more attractive to politicians.Helping devoted organizations continue to promote their universities without minimizing the rewards of secular knowledge, science, and generation can bring rewards.Universities like McPherson and Glorious Vision can take advantage of the vast charitable donations of members of their church..
13. The NUC thinks in terms of a national university system, but establishes a check on personal universities so that they cannot be as artistic as they need to be. And after the suspension, they are denied access to financing, creating a double jeopardy for those establishments. Education is a public social service. Therefore, all education ministries, departments, and other agencies, such as the NUC and review boards, are targeting all citizens, not just public establishments, excluding the country’s young Nigerians. personal sector. established establishments. Therefore, a Minister of Education is not a Minister of Education in the public sector, but the Minister of Education in the public and personal sectors. The goal deserves to be to facilitate and develop capacity, not to discourage under the guise of securing standards. Colhard’s efforts deserve to be encouraged to alleviate the deficit and increase capacity. Education in Nigeria wishes each and every hand on the bridge! If you need personal sector establishments, at least know that the academics are Nigerians, entering the same hard job market and contributing to our collective development. We cannot abandon these scholars and hope to turn them into patriotic citizens who will not seek tactics to catch the next flight to Canada, the United States, or anywhere else where they will find greener pastures.
None of my recommendations will be implemented eroding the strength and autonomy of personal establishments to pursue their visions and missions.My fear is also that if the government can be so attached to the highlights discussed above, from the tax relief formula to scholarships, and from access to public resources through these personal universities to the creation of tasks, even public establishments would not suffer from a known disease without a cure to this day.The unanswered question is how to get the government to see, appreciate and implement these suggestions; after all, our challenge as a country was never due to a lack of ideas, yet to be implemented.
Our features are now accurate: expand public universities to their full capacity and expand personal universities to their full capacity.The truth of my answers proposed above is that they are simple to achieve, citizen-centered, not only for personal universities, but also for public universities and the country as a total with better educational opportunities.Most of all, let’s take a look at a scenario of mutual benefit for all.Nothing less is a recipe for disaster!
Toyin Falola is professor emeritus of professors and president of humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
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