THESIX NEW FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES MUST BE TACKE OFF SEPTEMBER :2011.
On the Full academic activities will commence at the new federal universities in Every Nigerians that will tacke place on September next year, Kenneth Gbagi, minister of state for education.On Last week, the Federal Executive Council directed that a committee be set up to work out modalities for establishing the specialised institutions, to be established in each of the six geopolitical zones.Receiving the commend of a committee on establishment of six new universities yesterday in Abuja, Mr. Gbagi said the new institutions were established to address the problems of access bedeviling the education sector.
“We have accepted the report, and it is a good one. It has different segments, but has to do with the creation of six new universities approved by the federal executive council,” he said.
“The committee will be enforced to ensure that the institutions take off in September next year,” Mr. Gbagi added.
The minister further disclosed that the sum of N10 billion will be made available for the start of the new schools, while N1.5 billion will be released to the committee for all initial activities that will lead to the commencement of the institutions. The money is expected to be spent on clearing the sites and providing take off facilities.
The schools will be sited within states that do not already have federal universities, but two sites have been identified in Dutse, Jigawa, and Bayelsa States.
The location of four other institutions will be made public at a later date, after due consultations, Mr Gbagi commended
Why two of the new Universities were located in the home states of the minister of education, Ruqquayatu Rufa’i, and that of President Chief MR Goodluck Jonathan and Mr. Gbagi says that they were considered simply because there are no federal universities in these states.
Access to education:
Establishment of new Universities is a laudable idea because, The minister, universities in the Nigeria are grossly inadequate for the population.
“Our vision is to bring education to the doorstep of every Nigerian,” he said
Julius Okojie, the executive secretary of the National Universities Commission and chairman of the committee, said that out of over 1.3 million candidates that sit for university entrance examinations every year, only about 300,000 are eventually admitted.
Mr. Okojie said that when sited in state, universities enhance development, adding that it is also an attempt to address the problem of illegal tertiary education in the country.
The report provided detailed costing of each university in developmental phases, mode of funding, and proposed the size of each of them, considering that it may not be the size of any existing conventional university; as well as develop two councils.
Its membership includes the executive secretaries of the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), and Education Trust Fund (ETF), among others.
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