Speaking during a briefing organised ahead of the 10th convocation ceremony of the university, the VC said that a total of 287 undergraduates of the school would be conferred with Bachelor degrees and certificates, while 339 postgraduate students would also graduate from the school.
Discovering panacea to colleges’ budgetary weight
In February 2010, irate students at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, were reported to have gone on rampage setting ablaze supermarkets filling stations, and raiding banks. The students were protesting the hike in school fees from N26, 000 to N76, 000 for full-time and from N30, 000 to N100, 000 for part-time students.
On the other hand, university workers are complaining of lack of adequate funding for tertiary institutions.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for five months in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996, went on strike because of it. They downed tool again for three months in 2001; two weeks in 2002; six months in 2003; three months in 2007; four months in 2009; five months in 2010; three months in 2011; and six months in 2013.
Source : Guardian
Private universities provide quality education?
Most private colleges in Nigeria can contend positively with their companions abroad on the grounds that they concentrate on giving quality instruction to their understudies, the Director, Federal Scholarship Board, Mrs Fatima Jiddum, has said.
She made the comment at a workshop titled ‘Private University and its Place in Nation Building; Standards, Qualities and Expectations’, sorted out by Nile University of Nigeria in Abuja on Saturday.
Source : Dailytrust