The Federal Government is working on a funding structure for public universities in the country as part of moves to tackle the incessant strikes by lecturers in these institutions.
A former Minister of State for Education Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba stated this, noting that the government’s funding of public universities was unsustainable.
“I have proposed, and the Minister of Education (Adamu Adamu) will continue discussing this with Mr President, a new scheme in which universities have a different way of earning money to be able to care for themselves,” he said on Channels Television’s “Sunday Politics”.
The presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election maintained that with the number of public universities in the country, “these schools have to get new ways of making money to fund their institutions.
“Because you see, there are only 50 of these federal universities and there are 200 others. However, these 50 alone are more than 75 percent of the number of students in the entire university structure – about 2.2m of them.
“So, it is important we give them a funding structure; we need to bring a funding structure to the table because this coming cap-in-hand to the Federal Government at all times cannot be continued and is not sustainable.”
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