Nigerian students...

[Ibro2g]

I meant to write this as a reply to the topic "nigerian students", but I though this has enough content to be a topic of its own.



        For quite some time now, the Nigerian child or specifically, the Nigerian student is far more familiar with the word strike than the word education. This is for numerous reasons, either from the mighty ASUU or the mightier Federal Government of Nigeria.
       I dont know ALL the mostly political reasons that trigger and keep the situation the way we see it, but I see its effects:
      Physically, The Nigerian student in his seemingly endless stay at home becomes fatique and lazy. At first begins to roam about uselessly, then later they get tired. They begin to stay at home and begin tobe a nuisance to everyone including themselves. They lack an essence on everything. The Nigerian is used to force, motive or essence, without one of these, he becomes economically and socially useless. Most of this students after some months begin to lack motivation for anything, and if u know what it means clearly, or know someone like that... thy can be very very annoying.
       Mentally, the students loses ambition, and become disillusioned to education. In general, since their minds was curved to education in life, they lose that interest. And then it happens; either thier minds become Idle, or ideas of failing buisinesses fall their heads. Its a belief that money is everything, this students will engage themselves in criminal acts knowingly or unknowingly for money... its disastrous to the nation. And secodly, an idle mind is an evil mind. Those whose minds become idle, the devil begins to work it for them. They begin to calculate little crimes like "daddys closet" and "mommy's jewwelry" for money, even when they do have them. More is better than enough, huh!. And this criminal mind grows to be a real hardcore criminals. For others, their minds waste away in places where they never had the time to go. And they become so wasted that even their parents cant recognise them when they get back. Very few however, perhaps fewer than few, made a positive use of this useless period. By maybe engaging in other certificate courses, or some part-time jobs... but even them, their minds continue to fail slowly as time goes by, preety soon they'll get disillusioned by education and chase other races of life, rough or smooth.
       With all this "felonies" The federal Government still dares compare our standard of education with others( them garra liver). And they'll still expect Nigerian students to exell from the already down graded educational system we have. And as they continue to make things worse by limiting education to the rich alone*, the standards of development and manpower is turning garbage.
May God Almighty help the Federal Republic of Nigeria... though it is bearly a republic now.

*Universities are threatening to resume strike with a fee of about N150, 000.00k per student per session.

[Sas]

I think the money 150,000 per year is not a big deal as long as opportunities will be provided by the students to pay the money like:
1- The government/schools can provide financial Aid to the student who can't afford to pay their fees. This will help those students that are in need.
2- The students can get part time jobs and help pay for their fees. Most Students don't work at all in Nigeria so that can also help them get the money.
3- Are there no loans available to students?
4- I think the educationa system will improve as the lecturers will be paid more so they will teach well.
5- The price will drive away those who only go there to disturb others and not study.

Compare this to the amount elsewhere even though they cannot be comparable but look at it anyway

In U.S the prices ranges from as low as 5 dollar digits (less than ten thousand) to as huge as 6 digits. Just look at MIT for example about $42000 (thats almost 6million Naira). What a difference.

(All this are my perceptions and I don't want someone to start saying ******)

[Muhammad]

Salam

Sanusi i think you missed a crucial point about paying for education in Nigeria. In a country where 60% live on less than 100 naira a day, it makes little sense to fix a 150000 naira year tuition. Education is not a priviledge. The govt of any nation is responsible for educating its citizens whether they like it or not. Infact, in the south-south summit OBJ attends, they resolved to allocate atleast 25% of their budget towards education.

Ibro2g, the ASUU strik has more than meets the eye. The govt is denying making a commitment to the lecturers which in reality id false. The lecturers on th other hand are a bit selfish. there are plenty ways of pressuring the govt other than ?industrial action. They can for example continue studies but no one will graduate and exam will not be conducted. That way govt will have to face the crises of frustrated grduates and................. well we know the rest.

Abun dai sai addua, Allah shi sawwake.
a cousin of mine is spending his 8th year in ABU for a medical degree still in the 6th. with strike and all, he will spending 9 years there.

Allah shi kyauta.
Bissalam

[Anonymous]

na wa 4 u o sunusi alhassan??so u mean if there's a fee of 150,000 (naira) there'll be students in school????plz think again..ka sani cewa akwai mutumin da yake da more than 6 or 7 children in school and besides all those ideas you brought that will soften the 150,000 burden are just impossible in nigeria :-[.pls think of how the govt can continue to subsidise the educational sector and remember almost all the ppl that want to introduce this tuition fee have at one time been sponsored by the govt one time or the other.Why will they then deny others that priviledge >:(.its un4tunate

[Ibro2g]

Somehow, I have a feeling the best way of correcting all this, is to build more univrsities and fix a fee... not that high of a fee, but fix a fee. Because the universities in Nigeria are very few and the demand of them is rising. The universities are overcrowded like 5 or 6 times what it was made for. And worse yet, all this bring stress to the lecturers and professors, but then you need to see what a professor even earns in a year! Just about 4, 5 million a year. I`m talking about to the highest degree with all allowances. This is uncompareable to foreign professors or even our secondary school leaving certificate chancellors in the village in Nigeria. In review of this, since the government(damn obasanjo/atiku) isn`t ready to do anything, I suggest they just fix a few, aboud be realistic about it too!
damn obas/atiku

[lionger]

I think the solution to our education problems is to privatize most schools and subsidize the fees. ?That way the standards will improve and at the same time affordable for the average Nigerian.

[Anonymous]

I think fixing price for all universities will not help the education. Think of the developed world for instance, their universities ranges in fees and that works very good. MIT and Harvard for instance with about over $30,000 in tuition and a local community college in U.S with less than $1,500 will tell you what I mean. I am not saying that the fees should be that high but they should be different and that will work. If all the fees are fixed, then everybody will join the best schools and help in spoiling them. But if the best are expensive, that will allow a few to join and at least the professors can handle them and make them the best students in town. Even though people say that MIT has the best students in the world, that doesn't mean that the best go there. they are trained to be that way so if we apply that in Nigeria, the next generation will benefit not this one.

I hope I make some sence