Federal government yesterday expressed hope that it could eventually sway the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end its six-week long strike after a meeting of both parties today.
Expectations that ASUU would end the
strike and re-open universities for academic activities did not
materialise last Thursday when executives of the union met with a
federal government committee chaired by Benue state governor Gabriel
Suswan.
Minister of education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i who spoke to journalists after a meeting of the task teams for the 2013 mid-term review of the four-year strategic plan for the development of the education sector said government was hopeful the meeting “would go a long way in resolving the crisis.”
Rufa’i said government was in no way abdicating its responsibility to the tertiary education sub-sector but was doing its best to address the challenges.
At the meeting she said the recent needs assessment carried out for all public universities has led to a presidential intervention of N100billion to ensure that challenges identified in the report are given due attention.
She said government has also established 12 new federal varsities, nine of which have started academic activities while the remaining three will start in 2014.
The minister said, “In addition to their normal budgetary provisions, our tertiary institutions are benefitting from increased allocation from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). For example, allocation to universities increased from N303.14 million in 2010 to N595 million in 2012; polytechnics from N216.56 million to N337 while that of Colleges of Education increased from N157.17 to N319 million.”
Minister of education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i who spoke to journalists after a meeting of the task teams for the 2013 mid-term review of the four-year strategic plan for the development of the education sector said government was hopeful the meeting “would go a long way in resolving the crisis.”
Rufa’i said government was in no way abdicating its responsibility to the tertiary education sub-sector but was doing its best to address the challenges.
At the meeting she said the recent needs assessment carried out for all public universities has led to a presidential intervention of N100billion to ensure that challenges identified in the report are given due attention.
She said government has also established 12 new federal varsities, nine of which have started academic activities while the remaining three will start in 2014.
The minister said, “In addition to their normal budgetary provisions, our tertiary institutions are benefitting from increased allocation from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). For example, allocation to universities increased from N303.14 million in 2010 to N595 million in 2012; polytechnics from N216.56 million to N337 while that of Colleges of Education increased from N157.17 to N319 million.”
culled from Daily Trust
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