An increment in school fees won't really lead to change in the nature of University education – Professor of Environment Law and Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof Olanrewaju Fagbohun.

An Igbo proverb goes that Ihu di nma adighi mma itu mbo meaning A beautiful face doesn't deserve to be pinched. one may likewise include that a splendid head should not be overlooked.

It is in the soul of grasping and to be sure focusing on a brilliant head, one of Nigeria's finest Academic, Professor of Environment Law and Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof Olanrewaju Fagbohun, that a substantial number of experts, a few, Staff of Lagos State University, a few, staff of University of Lagos, many, Alumni of University of Lagos and Students of Lagos State University focalized on the Afe Babalola Hall, University of Lagos, Aloha, for the sixth Prof Adetokunbo Babatunde Shofoluwe Memorial Lecture.

Prof Olanrewaju Fagbohun was the Guest Speaker at the Annual Lecture held to pay tribute to Prof Babatunde Shofoluwe, a late former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. He talked on the point: Commodification of Education: what Imperatives for Transforming University education in Nigeria?

In the Lecture, Prof Fagbohun analyzed the test of financing of tertiary education in Nigeria. "The gross Underfunding is the natural impetus of the condition of instruction division and it is the thing that has offered ascend to the diverse adapting systems that universities are embracing, incorporating the Commodification with every one of its difficulties"

He additionally investigated the numerous outcomes of commodifying instruction, one of which is that it neglects the estimation of intellectual test and investigation by lessening learning to quantifiable, work situated outcomes.

He cautioned that basically approaching students to pay more for education would not tackle the issue of underfunding, rather, it will prompt greater unexpected results.

He pushed, in addition to other things, that the administration at both government and state levels must separate repeating use of staff remittances from capital consumption and guarantee that they give weighted premium to both. He additionally expressed that expanding the yearly budgetary portions to training by every level of government and appropriate observing will go far in enhancing the standard of the education sector in Nigeria.

After the Lecture, Prof Fagbohun was given an honor of acknowledgment by the coordinators. The Award was displayed by the quick past Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof Rahman Bello, and bolstered by the officeholder, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
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