Reps asks FG to reverse downgrade of education varsities

The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to immediately review the downgrading of four federal universities to colleges of education. The House mandated its committee on tertiary education and services to interface with the Federal Ministry of Education on the matter and report back to the House within two weeks. Adopting a […]

The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to immediately review the downgrading of four federal universities to colleges of education.
The House mandated its committee on tertiary education and services to interface with the Federal Ministry of Education on the matter and report back to the House within two weeks.
Adopting a motion by Rep Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi and four others, the House noted that the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan had upgraded the Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo and Colleges of Education in Kano and Zaria, to universities.
It was noted that the upgrade was “mainly because they had been conducting degree programmes and awarding degrees in affiliation with various universities.”
The House however regretted that there was a recent government directive reversing the upgrade of the four institutions, “which will worsen the already poor standard of education which requires complete overhauling and could serve as a further impediment to the provision of quality education in the country.”
In another motion, the House mandated its committee on basic education and services to investigate the reported cases of lopsided admission into unity schools and report back in four weeks.
The second resolution followed adoption of a motion by Rep Garba Chede Hamman Julde (APC, Taraba), who said the recent admission into the junior cadre of the Queen’s College, Lagos for the 2015/2016 academic session “was skewed very much against students from the northern states.”
The two motions were unanimously adopted.