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Articles by Val Ekechukwu

student loans for more than 100 million people might be a good place to start

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By David Mba, Val Ekechukwu
| The Conversation Verified
Amid strikes by Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities, one thing is clear: the current funding model for the country’s public universities is broken. The government’s new Higher Education Bill aims to fix it. Our view, based on over 30 years of working in the academy, including holding positions as university administrators in Nigeria and the UK, is that the bill won’t fix the many problems facing the country’s higher education system.
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Are Nigeria’s universities hitting enough ‘goals’?

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By David Mba, Taiwo George, Val Ekechukwu
| TheCable Verified
BY DAVID MBA AND VAL EKECHUKWU Are Nigeria’s 160 universities doing enough to support the country’s industrial growth? Our findings suggest that they are not. Compared with five rival emerging global economies – South Africa, Egypt, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil – Nigeria lags behind on all the measures we used. If published research by universities, for example,could be seen as points won by football teams in a global league, a patriotic Nigerian fan would be staying away in embarrassment.
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