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PROPHE Summary The Nigerian government has given an ultimatum to the
National Universities Commission (NUC) in regard to tighter rules for
system quality assurance. The government is reacting to major private
university expansion. It accepts that private providers play an important
role but worries over how. It encourages only non-profit committed individuals,
enterprises, or religious foundations to participate. Its strategy to
strengthen the university system is to increase approvals of private universities
through healthy competition. The approval for license depends upon the
program offered, duplication of courses, and fees. The government maintains
that new private universities should offer internationally competitive
courses, particularly in science and technology, that meet the nation's
demands, and that fees should be affordable for the average student.
For the full story, see Africa News, January 2005. "NUC Gets
Ultimatum on Quality of Varsities," by Bukola Olatunji and Juliana
Taiwo.
PROPHE Observation
In Nigeria as in many African countries now, government struggles
to come to grips with proliferating private higher education institutions.
It couples a recognition of need and contribution by the privates with
either a genuine wariness about their quality and profit-orientation or
at least a concern that much of the public prominently carries such negative
views. Of course proclamations about the public good, national needs,
and low costs do not themselves constitute realistic public policy.
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