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       Stop politicising varsity education, expert warns stakeholders
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 10, 2013, 9:30 am
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       The Chairman, Executive Trainers Limited, Dr. Ayo Ogunsan, has
       called on stakeholders in the nation’s university system to stop
       politicising the sub-sector.
       Ogunsan argued that politics and underfunding, rather than
       strikes, were the major factors militating against the
       development of the universities, particularly public
       institutions.
       The expert trainer of tertiary institutions’ administrators
       spoke at a press conference, which was part of activities to
       mark his organisation’s fifth anniversary in Lagos on Friday.
       Ogunsan also wondered why the Federal Government could go ahead
       to establish more federal universities when existing oneswere
       going comatose. This policy, he said, was more of a political
       decision than a genuine measure to improve quality university
       education.
       “The day politics is taken out of tertiary institutions in
       Nigeria, that is the day we will have an enduring sector. I
       don’t know the business of a president, governor and other
       politicians in the administration of education in a country.
       Politics should be separated from our education sector. When
       this is done, the desired development we all crave for will
       come,” he said.
       Ogunsan urged the FG to invest more in education, adding that it
       should also give the managers the free hands to do their jobs.
       “Appoint credible academics into the governing councils and
       empower them to dotheir jobs of administering these
       institutions.The Federal Government should provide federal
       schools with fund needed and also allow them to generate more
       funds to run the institutions,” he said
       Ogunsan, who admitted that this might forceparents to pay more,
       argued that it would boost quality.
       “We are not asking the FG to charge tuition as much as private
       universities are doing but to revamp the university system at
       the public level, parents need to pay more,” he said.
       He, however, called on university administrators to invest more
       in human capacity development because, he believes the mindset
       of most workers in tertiary institutions must be renewed with
       best global practices in education delivery in the sector.
       The ETL, he noted, was established to train top executives in
       the nation’s tertiary institutions locally and internationally.
       “We take executives out of the shores of Nigeria at least for
       five days so they could be trained without distractions. So,
       even if the minister or the president needs their attention,
       they may still need to count the cost of re-booking their
       tickets and the stressinvolved,” he explained.
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