Jonathan to meet ASUU November 4  *Universities may re-open next week

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Scan-News can authoritatively reveal that in a last ditch effort to resolve the ASUU strike, President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa. This was part of the resolutions of the meeting between the ASUU leadership, Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of Education on Tuesday as was first reported by this medium.
An official of the Vice President’s office who pleaded anonymity told Scan News that all hands are now on deck to ensure that the universities resume next week.
The official stated that the Vice President and the Supervising Minister of Education have made head-way in resolving the strike, but the final involvement of the President is to show ASUU that there is the commitment of the Federal Government at the highest level.
It was learnt that the President has been fully briefed on steps taken by Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of Education to get to this point.
It was learnt that the President will at next Monday’s meeting present to the ASUU leadership the administration’s last concession for them to call off the prolonged strike.
A source at the Presidential Villa noted that if ASUU fails to call off, the Federal Government will then resort to plan B, which will be to compulsorily open the universities, using the instrumentality of the governing councils and the school managements.
Already, most of the governing councils of the universities have started meeting to work out modalities for the compulsory re-opening of the universities should ASUU fail to honour the personal request of President Jonathan.
Scan News gathered that the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike and the Vice Chancellors of Public Universities also discussed the re-opening of the schools last Monday. Most of the Vice Chancellors suggested the compulsory re-opening of the schools, should the last ditch efforts fail.
It was gathered that security report available to the Presidency may have necessitated this line of action to salvage the universities system from the direction it is facing at present.

ASUU Strike Will Be Over ‘In A Few Months’

Nigerian students were yesterday assured by the Federal Government that the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be over in a few months.
Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike stated this at the anniversary lecture of National Universities Commission, NUC, in Abuja.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Macjohn Nwaobiala, the minister reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to resolving the ongoing strike.
“The Federal Government is very concerned about the state of public tertiary institutions in the country. The Federal Government is really worried about the ongoing strike of ASUU and the strike would be resolved in a few months,” Wike said.
In his paper presentation titled, ‘Turbulent and Testing Times for Global Higher Education: Lessons for Nigeria’, Professor John Daniel said “online teaching and learning is now part of the future of most universities. Nigeria should be very good at this because without embarrassing you by pressing the point, I note that your country, through 419 scams, is a world leader in the use of the internet for less desirable purposes.”
According to him, higher education all over the world is facing lot of challenges that included youth unemployment and the current changes in the university system.

“These are indeed turbulent times, not only for United States of America but also for much of higher education globally,” he said.
In his goodwill message, a former Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Jubril Munzali, noted that the education sector has been underfunded for 21 years, with the significant increase in the funding of tertiary institutions being done over time, through the struggle of ASUU.
He blamed the Federal Government for the lingering crisis rocking the nation’s university system.
According to him, it is high time the Federal Government listened to its agencies and allow NUC perform its statutory role and fund universities based on the advice of its agencies like NUC.
“Successive administrations in the country never paid adequate attention to university education,” Munzali said. 

But seriously, how can the leaders of tomorrow be left idle for this long? well, Nigerian youths/undergraduates should ensure they try to engage themselves in something that is going to help them in the nearest future. 

Tuition Fees at the World’s Top Universities

Tuition Fees at the World’s Top Universities

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Danny Byrne investigates increases in tuition fees for undergraduate degrees at the world’s top universities.

Getting a degree from one of the world’s highest ranking universities can now cost up to US$182,000. That’s the ticket price for a four-year undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, ranked 9th in the world in the QS World University Rankings® 2013/2014. At US$45,324 per year, Chicago is the most expensive university in the global top ten – but not by much.

Yale University comes second at $43,100, while Stanford University clocks in at $42,690. Tuition fees at MIT, the world’s current number one, stand at $36,000 per year, with Harvard charging a round $40,000.

These figures reflect a significant increase in the cost of higher education around the world since the financial crisis. Average annual tuition fees in the global top ten now stand at a record high of around US$31,000, a steep rise compared to the 2007/8 figure of around US$18,464.

The following table lists annual tuition fees for domestic undergraduate students at the world's ten top universities. It excludes financial aid and additional costs such as rent, food and textbooks.

Annual undergraduate tuition fees at the world’s top universities

University/Tuition fees (US [$])

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / $36,000

Harvard University / $38,891

University of Cambridge / $14,000

University College London (UCL) / $14,000

Imperial College London / $14,000

University of Oxford / $14,000

Stanford University / $42,690

Yale University / $43,100

University of Chicago / $45,324

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) / $39,990

Princeton University / $40,170.

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