Education unionists kick against TETFund intervention in private schools

The activists, who include the Senior Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Academic Staff Union of Universities, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities, who concluded an education summit in Abuja over the weekend, called for a change in the country’s education system.The one week summit, convened by a […]

The activists, who include the Senior Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Academic Staff Union of Universities, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities, who concluded an education summit in Abuja over the weekend, called for a change in the country’s education system.
The one week summit, convened by a former ASUU President Dipo Fashina, in a communiqué, lamented that the “current education system is characterised by chronic underfunding, bad leadership, infrastructural decay, poor conditions of learning and service, promotion of mediocrity, shortage of personnel and entrenchment of orthodoxy, parochialism and chauvinism.”
It said “on no account should public funds, such as TETFund, PTDF amongst others, be used to fund private educational institutions and associated enterprises,” just as it rejected the “on-going systematic privatisation of education and the selling off of public educational institutions,” which it described as a public good.