University education is a privilege even in developed parts of the world. Basic education is a fundamental human right. Right to free and compulsory primary education. Right to available and accessible secondary education..

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Right to available and accessible secondary education (including technical and vocational education and training), made progressively free.

ASUU should realise that in the scheme of play, they are on the lowest rung of the ladder. The least of our worries..
The reason why we have mass illiteracy, mass under-development and unemployment in Nigeria is simply due to the skewed focus on ASUU and the Universities.

The FG has been subsidizing a privilege while neglecting the basic right of its citizenry.
I said this earlier on my TL..the FG subsidized my Medical degree and numerous other graduates of federal tertiary universities at the detriment of millions of kids out of school who are constantly being denied their basic right to education.
ASUU is not our problem in Nigeria unfortunately the FG went into an agreement to spent such a whooping amount of money on them. The FG is also the highest employer of academic labour ( ASUU ) with huge recurrent expenditure on their salaries and allowances.
FG to shift it's focus and revamp the system. China has 99% attendance in primary schools but only 9.5% of Chinese citizens have bachelor degrees.
My phone was probably made by a Chinese with basic education. Their kids exposed to coding in preschool

bigthink.com/ideafeed/china…
Dwindling revenue in sharp contrast with rapid population growth has now made it impossible for the FG to continue to subsidize tertiary education and fund ASUU. The decay in the educational sector is an obvious result of this fact.

It's time to let go..choose quality over cheap
Let the FG set up an educational loan system and a scholarship system.

The FG cannot afford tuition free system for every Tom, dick and harry especially the lazy and unserious students who on campus to constitute nuisance.

30% enrollment on scholarship..
1m naira per annum scholarship..give this to the best brains. Crunch the figures from JAMB statistics and factor it into our budget..

Grant the universities autonomy, let them charge their fees. Students who did not qualify for scholarship and cannot afford school fees..
Will be offered educational loans to the tune of the fees needed per session for 4 years and 5 years respectively.

Students can pay back once they become gainfully employed.

NUC as a regulator would ensure that Universities don't charge arbitrary fees or exploit students..
I am a beneficiary of the tuition free / subsidized system and I was lucky to get good and quality education. It is no longer feasible and we must tell ourselves the harsh reality.
Somebody must pay for quality education. Either the govt or us the citizens..
ASUU will keep on holding every govt by the jugular, they will go on strike with this system till infinity.
Trending hashtags and sentiments on this issue without valuable discourse around it does not show any form of intellectual acuity..
This present system has outlived its usefulness. My father enjoyed it in University of Ibadan - he had a room to himself, had meal tickets, sponsored exchange programs, free tuition, free shuttle to school..

I enjoyed it with a slight decline in quality, now it is dead..
FG should hands off and channel resources to other tiers or forms of education. We need people with skills, we want to assemble cars, phones, we need textile to boom, we need people to fabricate steel, we need IT programmers, we need skilled and mechanized farmers..
Whopping***
We need business men, the Ladipo type..who can turn 1m to 10m in few weeks. We need e- commerce skills. We need people to make shoes and garments..
We need to quickly grow as a nation..we need people to operate cranes, forklift, excavators ..
ASUU should realize that the method of funding University education and holding the govt to ransom via strike actions is outdated

No sentiments, the FG can no longer fund quality education for everyone.

Let ASUU resume and continue to channel a path to sustainable financing.

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