FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DENIES ASUU’S ACCUSATION ON PLAN TO SELL UNIVERSITIES.
The Federal Government says there is no plan to hand over public universities to private investors.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, clarified the Second Quarterly Engagement of the ministry with Heads of units and Chief Executive Officers of parastatals and agencies under the ministry.
Earlier, National Association of Nigerian students reported that the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, had accused the federal government of plans to hand over federal universities to investors through Public Private Partnership.
According to Mamman, transnational education is a policy on what this government is doing to open up tertiary education by taking people from the rest of the world to come and invest in our tertiary system.
The minister stressed the need to allow those who operate universities at the international level to come into the country and set up institutions either for themselves or in collaboration with our local universities.