Despite underfunding of existing institutions, Nigerian lawmakers want 200 new universities, colleges

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The National Assembly has over 200 bills seeking the establishment of new universities, specialised colleges and polytechnics.

Nigeria’s 98 public universities suffer from chronic underfunding; often leading to strikes by lecturers and staff over payment of salaries and other welfare issues. Experts including lecturers blame the unedrfunding for the poor ranking of Nigerian universities globally withmaking the list of top 1,000 universities in the world. Like the universities, Nigeria’s over 120 public polytechnics and colleges of education suffer a similar fate of poor funding.

Three years before that, the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities had reached what is now popularly referred as theUnder the agreement, the government would, among others, pump N1.5 trillion into the universities within three years, work towards committing 26 per cent of annual budgets to education and make education funding a first-line charge.Eleven years after the agreement, industrial actions by ASUU remain.

Meanwhile, very little attention is paid to the perennial strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics . Just like their counterparts in the universities,at federal polytechnics are frequent and disruptive. All of these are primarily because of the failure of the government to properly fund its tertiary schools.

 

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