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| Stephen Oronsaye |
The Committee on the Restructuring and
Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and
Agencies headed by a former Head of Service, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, has
made far-reaching recommendations which, it believes, could be
effectively implemented to save the nation’s education sector from
decay.
The most critical of the core
recommendations of the committee after a holistic investigation of the
education sector is the introduction of tuition fees in federal
universities. Others are the merger of the National Universities Commission, the National
Board for Technical Education and the National Commission for Colleges
of Education and the scrapping of the National Examinations Council.
The committee identified the
tuition-free policy of government for undergraduates in federal
universities, the over-dependency on government funding by universities,
near absence of good governance structures, dearth of quality research,
decline in ethical and professional practices by lecturers, as among
the factors responsible for the sharp decline in the quality of
standards in tertiary education.
Therefore, it recommended a five-year
phased disengagement of the government from funding the top six federal
institutions christened the first generation universities with effect
from the 2013 fiscal year.
The institutions are the University of
Ibadan, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, the University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University and the
University of Benin.
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