The Federal Authorities has debunked information report making the rounds about its purported resolution at hand over public universities to non-public traders.
Minister of Training, Prof. Tahir Mamman, acknowledged this on Tuesday on the Quarterly Engagement of Training Ministers with Administrators, Heads of Companies and Parastatals beneath the Ministry of Training held in Abuja.
It will be recalled that the Congress of College Lecturers (CONUA) had raised the alarm over claims that the Federal Authorities was making strikes at hand over public universities to non-public traders, warning that the transfer won’t be within the curiosity of the nation.
However, the Minister of Training stated there was misinformation within the media area on one side of the coverage of the federal government in respect of tertiary schooling.
“Some folks have been carrying the knowledge that the Federal Authorities is promoting off public universities to non-public traders.That is that is fully false,” the Minister clarified.
He added that the federal government of the day believed within the provision of public establishments.
“As everyone knows, this authorities has not draw back from reforms that this nation wants.
“The personal sector for many years now has performed a significant position within the provision of Tertiary Training. There are extra personal universities in Nigeria than all the federal government personal mixed.
“What this authorities has achieved is to open up the tertiary schooling stage, particularly the schools for world competitiveness that enables those that function on this space at worldwide stage to come back into the nation and arrange establishments both by themselves or in collaboration with our native universities beneath very clear pointers of what’s referred to as transnational schooling,” Prof. Mamman stated.
He additional defined that in different elements of the world, international locations profit immensely from having famend worldwide establishments establishing campuses or establishing fully new establishments in these international locations.
In response to him, “They’ve taken requirements to these international locations, it has additionally saved these international locations international alternate and even introduced extra into the nation.
“That is what this authorities has achieved, it has opened up the tertiary establishments that allow folks from the remainder of the world to come back in and spend money on our tertiary schooling. It’s not parting with any of those establishments.”
