National coordinator of ERC, Hassan Soweto said both the Federal and state governments have failed woefully in funding and maintenance of standard required for the provision of quality education for students and pupils. Soweto who disclosed this at a briefing to expose the salient issues prevalent in the education sector said, “Effective 2015, budgetary allocations to education by Federal and state governments have continued to decline. In the 2019 budget, only N620.
“At the moment, the number of out-of -school children has risen to 13.5million, while those in school have to endure poor facilities, outmoded curriculum and inexperienced or ill-motivated teaching staff, leading to half-baked graduates. National Secretary of ERC, Inukun Omole accused tertiary institutions of extortion, mismanagement of funds and despotic steps towards staff unions and students.
“For instance at the Lagos State University , a more novel way of increasing tuition through backdoor has been introduced and this is called Stream 2 admission programme with a price tag of N150, 000 per newly admitted students.”while stream 1 candidates pay the normal fee of N25, 000,” he said. “LASU receives up to half a billion naira subvention from Lagos state government every month, the highest paid by any government in South west Nigeria. They also received N3b TETFUND support, this is aside all other internally generated revenue from other programmes and activities in the coffers of LASU thus no need to overburden parents.
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