The Minister of Training, Prof. Tahir Mamman, on Tuesday stated the Federal Executive has negative plans to promote universities to non-public traders.
Mamman clarified the 2nd Quarterly Engagement of the ministry with heads of devices and eminent govt officials of parastatals and businesses below the ministry.
The Educational Personnel Union of Universities had accused the Federal Executive of plans handy over federal universities to traders thru public-private partnerships.
”There is not any plan to dump universities to traders,” he stated, noting that the coverage of the federal government allowed for transnational training.
In line with him, transnational training is a coverage on what this govt is doing to evident up tertiary training via taking population from the left-overs of the arena to come back and put money into our tertiary device.
“Some population are sporting data that the Federal Executive is promoting off to non-public traders its universities. That is an absolute lie and fully fraudelant.
“This govt believes in our people establishments. Then again, as everyone knows this govt has reforms that this nation wishes.
“The non-public sector will play games a big function within the provision of tertiary training, as there are extra inner most universities in Nigeria than people universities mixed.
“What this government has done is to open up the tertiary education level, in particular the universities, for global competitiveness,” he stated.
The minister wired the want to permit those that perform universities on the global stage to come back into the rustic and arrange establishments both for themselves or in collaboration with our native universities.
He stated that this was once under no circumstances to promote its establishments, noting that pointers on transnational training were in park.
Mamman stated the rustic will have to shoot a cue from what is offered in alternative international locations to have the benefit of the good thing about transnational training.
“In alternative portions of the arena, like Asia, they have got benefited immensely from having global establishments in the ones international locations.
“They have taken standards to those countries and also for the exchange and bringing money to those countries,” he stated.
He additional stated that the engagement with heads of businesses as parastatals was once to study the proceed, and demanding situations and reaffirm loyalty towards the learning soil of the rustic.