WHAT WENT WRONG?

Sir,

It is evident that graduands are gradually finding it harder to grind their way through local tertiary institutions as inadequate funding of the institutions continues to compromise the quality of the programmes on offer. The Ministry of Education and Training, which has a mandate to deliver free primary education, adequate secondary and high schools to satisfy the growing primary school population while also ensuring access to institutions of higher learning for all who qualify, is far from achieving these goals. It should be very worried when key institutions under its watch seem to be crumbling brick by brick, day by day. These are institutions responsible for ensuring we have a better educated citizenry tomorrow. They say desperate times call for desperate measures.

Transform

The number of universities in the country keeps increasing and more colleges want to transform into universities. However, this increase is hardly being matched by the desired scholarships needed to make it sustainable for them. For instance, we now have a medical university that is an essential institution for a country that has to produce medical practitioners in ways that could drastically reduce the high cost of overseas scholarships for such programmes and ensure we have enough doctors and specialists.

Project

Government had great appetite for this project initially having calculated the benefits. Agreements were signed and this made the project viable. However, there suddenly appears to be a total lack of commitment by government to take full advantage of this initiative as financial support for this institution has dwindled sharply. One could expect that the ministry, which was part of the team that brought the university to life, would wish to see its dream become a reality. What went wrong?

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