The University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Ondo State, has received requests from parents of students for a review of the institution’s fees which have lately raised by more than 100%.
A new cost for first-year students was just announced by the university administration.
According to a statement, the college now charges non-indigenous students more than two million dollars, while indigenous students would pay about 1.5 million for medical programs.
Students who enrol in the institution’s other programs must also pay the recently raised tuition.
Parents of some of the affected kids begged the state governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, to look into the situation in order to prevent the drop-out of students whose families could not pay the additional fees.
The institution had already extended an admissions offer to Mr Gbenga Amoo’s child, who claimed that the additional tuition was too high for the parents to bear. He requested a review of the development from the school administration.
He said, “We don’t have any option than to beg the school to review the new fees. We all know the state of this country economically, and how things are complicated for many people because there is no money.
“I will appeal to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, to consider the masses. How many people can afford that money? That is why we will continue to beg the government to look into it to allow our children access to university education. “
Mrs. Funmilayo Owolabi, another parent, expressed her dissatisfaction with the school’s differential tuition prices for indigenous and non-indigenous pupils.
In other news, a parent of a private school in the Ajasa area of Lagos State, John Akinluyi, was angry when his little boy demanded N10,000 to pay for the end-of-the-year party in his school last December.
“What are they going to give the pupils? It is part of the many ways these private schools exploit and extort parents. They keep demanding fees for items they don’t have or offer the pupils. I won’t blame them, it is due to the kind of country we live in and the way we run it.
“Now, from Meiran where you have the Lagos State Model College, down to Ajasa where there is the Nigerian Army Command School to Obasanjo Farm and down to Toll Gate which is the boundary between Lagos and Ogun states, we have just two public secondary and two public primary schools. One of the secondary schools, Odualabe, is even a junior one that stops at JSS 3 class.
“One can now imagine where children of over 200,000 parents in those areas will attend school. That is why people are forced to put their children in private schools.
“The situation is not peculiar to Lagos. Go to any Nigerian town or city, you will notice that areas that are just developing always lack government presence regarding facilities such as schools, hospitals and others. It is because we don’t plan ahead,” he said
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