The Minister of Schooling, Prof. Tahir Mamman, on Tuesday mentioned the Federal Authorities has no plans to promote universities to personal buyers.
Mamman clarified the Second Quarterly Engagement of the ministry with heads of items and chief government officers of parastatals and companies underneath the ministry.
The Educational Employees Union of Universities had accused the Federal Authorities of plans handy over federal universities to buyers by way of public-private partnerships.
”There isn’t a plan to unload universities to buyers,” he mentioned, noting that the coverage of the federal government allowed for transnational training.
In response to him, transnational training is a coverage on what this authorities is doing to open up tertiary training by taking folks from the remainder of the world to come back and put money into our tertiary system.
“Some persons are carrying data that the Federal Authorities is promoting off to personal buyers its universities. That is an absolute lie and fully false.
“This authorities believes in our public establishments. Nevertheless, as everyone knows this authorities has reforms that this nation wants.
“The personal sector will play a serious position within the provision of tertiary training, as there are extra personal universities in Nigeria than public universities mixed.
“What this authorities has accomplished is to open up the tertiary training stage, particularly the schools, for international competitiveness,” he mentioned.
The minister confused the necessity to permit those that function universities on the worldwide stage to come back into the nation and arrange establishments both for themselves or in collaboration with our native universities.
He mentioned that this was on no account to promote its establishments, noting that tips on transnational training had been in place.
Mamman mentioned the nation should take a cue from what’s obtainable in different international locations to learn from the benefit of transnational training.
“In different components of the world, like Asia, they’ve benefited immensely from having worldwide establishments in these international locations.
“They’ve taken requirements to these international locations and in addition for the alternate and bringing cash to these international locations,” he mentioned.
He additional mentioned that the engagement with heads of companies as parastatals was to overview the progress, and challenges and reaffirm dedication towards the academic panorama of the nation.
