{"id":115559,"date":"2024-12-05T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=115559"},"modified":"2024-12-05T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:01:16","slug":"were-against-student-loan-it-should-be-grant-asuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/were-against-student-loan-it-should-be-grant-asuu\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Against Student Loan, It Should Be Grant \u2013 ASUU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1817619024179728385\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) has condemned the student loan programme of the federal government disbursed through the Nigerian Education Loan Fund.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1817619024179728385-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe President of ASUU,\u00a0Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said the government should increase budgetary provision to the education sector or run a grant for the children of the poor.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that higher institutions have resorted to increasing school fees because of student loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur issue with NELFUND is that in a country like Nigeria, it should be grants; and not a loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the universities are increasing their fees now; jerking up their fees so that the students will borrow more loans from this NELFUND, encumbering the children of the poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my university, in my department, I now have less than 10 students in the department, many have dropped out. Apart from some of these big courses like Medicine, Law and what have you, students are dropping out. The children of the poor are dropping out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Osodeke explained that the\u00a0student loan\u00a0scheme had failed on two occasions because students were not able to pay back upon graduation.<\/p>\n<p>He explained many graduates may not get work because of the economic situation of the country. He emphasized that the students may be morally demoralized upon graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the academia, we do our research, we have searched all over the world, we have not seen. In most countries where you are having student loans when they graduate, they become problems in society. Some of them are demoralized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine a student graduating from the university with a loan of five million naira. Even me as a professor, I can not pay back such a loan in 20 years\u2019 time. Then student who graduates you have a loan of 5 million and you are getting a job in next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are saying if you loot at what happened in the 60s and 70s you can go to that level. The children of the poor assist them, increase budgetary allocation to education and this issue of loan will not come out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the third time they are introducing it, the last two times it collapsed, nobody benefitted. Those that benefitted didn\u2019t pay back because it collapsed. So how are we sure this one will survive?\u201d\u00a0Osodeke stated.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) has condemned the student loan programme of the federal government disbursed through the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. 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