Nigeria’s university system needs radical reform: student loans for more than 100 million people might be a good place to start
AMID strikes by Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities, one thing is clear: the current funding model for the country’s public universities is broken. The government’s new Higher Education Bill aims to fix it. Our view, based on over 30 years of working in the academy, including holding positions as university administrators in Nigeria and the UK, is that the bill won’t fix the many problems facing the country’s higher education system. Unless we rethink the whole system, it is unlikely to deliver the change that’s needed. Authors DAVID MBA, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise), University of the…