Nigeria Is Backward, Education Is Expensive... More Private Universities Needed — CEO
High fees and low quality of education in Nigeria causing education pilgrimage
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Nigeria is 'backward in education' and needs to licence more private universities in order to lower the cost of acquiring it and also improve the quality.
This much was said by the Chief Executive Officer of Bratim, Tijani Ibrahim, who spoke while presenting certificates to 22 students of Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN) at a ceremony held in Abuja.
Ibrahim noted that the high tuition fees and low quality of education in Nigeria is inspiring an exodus of Nigerian students to other countries.
"Nigeria is backward especially in education," he said.
The CEO urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) to address the shortage by licensing more universities.
"We would have expected NUC to licence more universities even as university colleges so that most of our people that are actually going to Ghana and Benin Republic will refrain from going there, not that the quality of education is actually better there but because they don't have alternativ," Ibrahim said.
He explained that the presence of more universities would invariably lower the prohibitive tuition fees charged by most private universities.
"The few private universities we have are very expensive and it is making us not to be developing and growing.
"If there are more private universities, it will bring down the cost and the quality can be assured if they are small."
Ibrahim urged the NUC management to act quickly in order to save the sector and stop education pilgrimage.
"This is what NUC need to do to make us be in the forefront of education so that people don't pack N10 Billion abroad because of education.
"Do you know how much goes to London, Ghana and Benin every year?"
Bratim is an Abuja based career development organisation
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