Must Read: “University Fee Is Far Too Little”- Aisha Yesufu Backs Hike Of School Fees By Past FG, Urge Nigerians To Face Reality In Detailed Analysis

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Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu in a recent tweet backed the increase of school fees in Federal Government owned schools. CONTINUE READING

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On Friday, Bushradiogist gathered that they were severe outrage from Nigerians following the increase of school fees in unitary schools (65k-100k) and University of Lagos (16k-100,000) carried out by the immediate past administration (Buhari not Tinubu) as the date in the newsletter published by the Ministry of Education under Adamu reads 25th of May.

Aisha Staunch supporter of the obedient movement, while reacting to the outrage caused by the school fees hike made it known to Nigerians that the price is too small to be expecting good teaching in return.

While reacting, she wrote: “When it comes to education in Nigeria we need to face the reality. What is paid in universities is far too little. I believe higher institutions should be autonomous. Government should focus on good quality early, primary and secondary education. They should be FREE Primary and secondary school is where the real learning take place. Higher institutions are for specialization.”

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“So it is important for government to ensure every citizen has not only access to good quality education but it is compulsory for every child to receive it Quality early, primary and secondary education is necessary for the development of any Nation. Nigeria has a huge population that can be an asset if properly educated. Without good quality early, primary and secondary education our population becomes a liability Early, primary and secondary education is more for the benefit of the Nation (an uneducated populace can truncate the Nation’s goals) while higher education is more for the benefit of the individual.”

“The money that parents currently spend on early, primary and secondary education in Nigeria should be saved and spent on universities and for those who cannot? That is where scholarships and school loans come in With good quality education up to secondary schools many will be able to do so much and there are some that would even attend online universities and co while working if they cannot attend brick and mortal universities direct Most of the situations we have in higher institutions is that many pay x10 or x100 in primary and secondary what they are now paying in universities.”

“I have students I have sponsored from primary to universities. It is when they enter university the financial burden reduces. (My students attend private primary and secondary schools) That should be anomaly. I should be paying more in university. They should not need my help primary and secondary sef.”

Why should one have to pay so much for early, primary and secondary education then get to university and be paying peanuts? Do a survey of universities. Most of the students there attended private schools. The ones from government schools did not get the education to get into university.”

“The greatest injustice in Nigeria is that access to good quality education is dependent on the economic status of one’s family. If you are poor no matter how brilliant you are, you end up in government schools that will truncated your education We then wonder why we have a lot in crime and criminality. A brilliant mind whether educated or not is brilliant and if you do not deliberately channel it to good it finds a niche in bad.”

“Most parents will tell you that a brilliant child gives more stress in upbringing. You have to keep engaging them on the right way or the find the wrong way What we have today is that the poor are usually cut off from universities anyways. The education they had up to secondary school cannot take them to university.”

“The question now is how do we ensure Universities and other higher institutions if allowed to be fully autonomous do not become a place where only the rich can attend? 1) Scholarships 2) Student loans 3) Online schools 4) Job opportunities for well educated secondary school leavers (who can save for higher education).”

“Let me start with scholarship! First of all there are students whose brilliance can earn them scholarships and their parents would not need to pay for them to attend universities ( every parent wish of those ones but we have to live what we have).”

“Universities can compete in attracting the best students to their schools with scholarships instead of the lazy attitude of waiting for government funds and not giving the best they can. If people pay for universities they will question the current practice in most universities in Nigeria where the worst of lecturers are hired due to nepotism or tribalism and low quality education is given Local, State and Federal Governments can also have their scholarships systems based. “

“We can even start a new fad. Instead of the expensive monies we use for burials we can begin to have people set up foundations that give scholarships in memory of their loved ones You might be wondering if only those that are good in academics that should get scholarships. Not at all! There should be sports, music arts etc scholarships Next is student loans.”

“This should be available to everyone and not just those who can be guaranteed by certain individuals. I can tell you a lot of the poor will have no one to guarantee them. There is also a problem of those who might not pay. There are many still owning the scholarship board after 50+ years.”

“We must have a system where everyone can be tracked and made accountable for that to work effectively Online schools is also another opportunity for people to acquire higher education at much reduced rate. It means people can be working and earning what they can use to pay off their fees.”

“The recent system we have where employment is based on paper qualifications will need to be examined. What one knows should trump what qualifications one has. There should be entry levels for those with good quality secondary education and they can learn on the job and grow.”

“They can then earn to go to university if they want to There is someone failed to mention. Apprenticeship! UK has that system. Where people are learning on the job and still working towards a degree. That way the students are paid while schooling. We can even adopt the Igbo apprenticeship program to a university acquiring degree one Another thing is that we have focused too much on university degrees. What about beauty schools? Acting schools? Fashion schools? Agricultural schools?.”

“Fabrication schools? All these can be certified. They can be degree awarding. People get to do what they love and earn a degree in it Why is Nigeria constantly reducing the cut off marks needed to enter university to meet failing standards in education? It should be increased and those with the capacity to excel go in while others find their niches in other certificates awarding schools I mentioned earlier Reducing the criteria for entering universities gives us graduates who have no business with university degrees and end up waiting for white collar jobs that are not available instead of doing things they are good at and can excel and even be providers of white collar jobs Autonomy will most likely force universities and other high institutions in Nigeria to revamp and begin to give education meant for the 21st century instead of 18th century.”

“There might be competition amongst them. As people paying will go for the best rather than what is available Universities do not need to do all courses. They should excel in some very well and let others go. If I want to read creative writing I should have universities that are top in that? Why do we have so many university doing veterinary medicine and we end up forcing people that choose to read human medicine there? Why do we not have few specialize in that and use the resources and infrastructure to train more doctors? We can even train to export doctors.”

“Nigerian doctors are in high demand. We have very intelligent people who want to read medicine but are sent to read courses like anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacy, microbiology lab technology etc who end up as bank tellers. Why don’t we increase our capacity to train doctors and let the other courses be specialized by a few schools. We set up a system that makes it easy for the doctors to japa and remit to the country.”

“Some might say will all doctors not japa? I can assure you that not everyone wants to japa and with better country a lot of the qualified doctors will come back either for retirement or close to retirement. Why do we even have courses like anatomy and physiology at undergraduate level? They should all be for MBBS and then anatomy and physiology can be done at postgraduate studies for those that need to specialize and teach it.”

“Still on the educational system we can have training schools for technology, ICT, even factory trainings to do some specialized jobs in manufacturing so we can have companies come to Nigeria and get their products done. There should be made in Nigeria i phones. That would need the required good governance and enabling environment.”

Source: Bushradiogist