{"id":7004,"date":"2023-12-15T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/funding-still-major-challenge-in-universities-vice-chancellors\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T07:02:32","slug":"funding-still-major-challenge-in-universities-vice-chancellors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/funding-still-major-challenge-in-universities-vice-chancellors\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding still major challenge in universities \u2013 Vice chancellors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, CVCNU, has pointed out inadequate funding as one of the major challenges militating against effective growth and global ranking of public universities in Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe Secretary-General of CVCNU, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, said this on Thursday in Abuja at a \u201cWorkshop for Advancement and Alumni Officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said there was the need for cost-sharing based on what was needed to train a student in the university.<\/p>\n<p>The event which had the theme: \u201cInstitutional Advancement, Alumni Relations and University Education in Nigeria\u201d was organised by CVCNU in partnership with the Conference of Alumni Association of Nigerian Universities, CAANU.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the committee was able to bring out figures about what was needed to train a student in a university, including public universities.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there were still gaps in the cost-sharing ratio between the government and the individual student.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that to train one medical student in a university takes about N5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo train one medical student in a university costs about N5 billion, even in the public university, it costs about N5 billion. So what is the cost-sharing ratio between government and individuals in public universities?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if the government wants to take responsibility for the training of the student, it should pay the 5 billion naira so the university can use it to run its operations. You cannot give a Vice-Chancellor N3 million and say go and manage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Funding still major challenge in universities \u2013 Vice chancellors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, CVCNU, has pointed out inadequate funding as one of the major challenges militating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6922,15],"tags":[6923,180],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cvcnu","category-news","tag-cvcnu","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}