Hope as pro-chancellors meet on quality education

Participants have gathered in Abuja for a two-day conference organized by the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Federal Universities (CPC) aimed at improving and maintaining the quality of higher education in a harsh economic environment.

The conference with the theme: “Sustainable Tertiary Education in a Harsh Economic Environment,” was held in Abuja, yesterday.

In his keynote address ,the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, represented by the Director of Tertiary Education, Hajiya Fatima Jiddun Ahmad, urged the participants to come up with strategies that would address the challenges facing tertiary education.

“The challenges are daunting but not insurmountable. I have no doubt that with the crop of experts that I have seen around you will come up with appropriate strategies to address quality emergent challenges in this sub-sector,” he said.

The minister who described resources constraint as a challenge they were facing said that the reality was the effective and efficient management of all resources available.

In his goodwill massage, the Senate President, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, represented by Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Barau J. Jibrin, said that population explosion and rapid infrastructural decay have contributed to the current sorry state of tertiary institutions.

Chairman CPC, Prof. Kimse Okoko called on federal government to give full autonomy to universities.