By Aare Afe Babalola SECURITY of tenure should not under any guise be used as an excuse by any vice chancellor to support directly or indirectly any strike action in the universities. Sustainable education cannot be achieved even with the most advanced of facilities when students are made to spend months on end idling at […]

By Aare Afe Babalola SOURCES of funding for university other than government grant: Many well- meaning Nigerians have suggested other means of funding education in public universities. They have suggested tuition fees, scholarships, loans, donations, endowment, examination fees, etc. Over the years, I have suggested that tuition fees is a source of funding university education. In […]

By Aare Afe Babalola THE fact that education costs money can hardly be denied. Quality education requires quality infrastructure, excellent and well remunerated teachers, adequate curriculum development and planning, amongst others. Most Nigerians demand the best quality education, even though they are also aware that quality education is most expensive. The pertinent question which most […]

By Aare Afe Babalola APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL: Having served as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Lagos, I find it rather convenient to use that university as a reference point. Article l(i)(a)-(i) of the University of Lagos Act makes provisions for a 23-member Council of the University. These […]

By Aare Afe Babalola THE office of the vice chancellor: In Nigeria, the statutes or establishment Acts of all universities provide for the principal officers and bodies of the university, including the office of vice-chancellor. For the University of Lagos, this provision is to be found in Section 3(1)(c) of the University of Lagos Act. […]