The Lagos State Government in line with the recommendations of the visitation panel report has approved new regime of tuition fees for fresh students of Lagos State University (LASU) starting from 2011/2012 academic session.
The new tuition fees arecontained in government views (white paper) on the report of the visitation panel to LASU dated September 2011, even as it directed the governing council and the Senate to take action on the implementation.
New students admitted to the College of Medicine are expected to pay the highest amount of N348,750 with N80,000 being tuition, accommodation attracts N60,000, N50,000 for laboratories/practical/workshop/studio, examinations N25,000 while acceptance fee and manuals go for N20,000 each.
But in a swift reaction to the tuition fees increment, the Students Union rejected the action and vowed to oppose the implementation on campus, saying the body was not carried along by the government and the university management before it was approved.
The report states: “In view of the enormous financial commitment required to run a university vis-à-vis other competing demands in the public sector, government accepts the recommendations to increase tuition fees and therefore directs the governing council and other authorities of the university to effect the following graduated tuition fees for the following courses.”
A breakdown of the new tuition fee per faculty indicates that fresh students in Faculties of Arts/Education would cough out N193,750. Further details revealed that tuition fee is N50,000, acceptance fee, laboratories/workshop/practical/studio attracts N20,000 each and it also include N15,000 for field trip/teaching practice and development levy.
For Faculties of Social and Management Sciences, the new students would pay N223,750 from 2011/2012 academic session with N60,000 going for tuition fee, laboratories/practical/workshop/studio attract N25,000, acceptance fee is N20,000.
The new fee for Law programmes is N248,750, with breakdown as follows, N80,000 for tuition, N50,000 for MOOT court Law, while examinations and acceptance goes for N20,000 each as development levy is N15,000.
Communication/ Transport faculties new intakes are to pay N238,750, with N60,000 going for tuition fee, N30,000 for laboratories/practical/workshop/studio, N25,000 for examinations and N20,000 for acceptance fee.
According to government, fresh students in Science Faculty would pay N258,750, made up of N60,000 as tuition fee, N40,000 for laboratories/ practical/workshop/studio, examination N25,000, and N20,000 each for acceptance fee and manuals.
In Engineering Faculty, the new intakes would cough out N298, 750 with breakdown as follow, N80,000 for tuition fee, N45,000 for laboratories/practical/workshop/studio, N25,000 for examinations, while acceptance fee and manuals attracts N20,000 each.
It further stressed that “Government directs that the new tuition fees shall not be applied retroactively as current students are exempted from the increase. The new tuition fees will take effect from 2011/2012 academic session.
Government will mitigate the impact of the increase in tuition fees on indigent students by provision of bursary and scholarship through its bursary and scholarship schemes”.
The new President of the students union, Durojaiye Olalekan told Daily Sun that the current or former executive were consulted by the government or the university management stressing that many students would be forced to abandon their programmes.
His words: “If there is any element of truth about the increment, we will resist it. It is unjust. In LASU 70 per cent of students are from less privilege homes, they will be affected. It is exploitative in nature”.SUN
According to government, fresh students in Science Faculty would pay N258,750, made up of N60,000 as tuition fee, N40,000 for laboratories/ practical/workshop/studio, examination N25,000, and N20,000 each for acceptance fee and manuals.
In Engineering Faculty, the new intakes would cough out N298, 750 with breakdown as follow, N80,000 for tuition fee, N45,000 for laboratories/practical/workshop/studio, N25,000 for examinations, while acceptance fee and manuals attracts N20,000 each.
It further stressed that “Government directs that the new tuition fees shall not be applied retroactively as current students are exempted from the increase. The new tuition fees will take effect from 2011/2012 academic session.
Government will mitigate the impact of the increase in tuition fees on indigent students by provision of bursary and scholarship through its bursary and scholarship schemes”.
The new President of the students union, Durojaiye Olalekan told Daily Sun that the current or former executive were consulted by the government or the university management stressing that many students would be forced to abandon their programmes.
His words: “If there is any element of truth about the increment, we will resist it. It is unjust. In LASU 70 per cent of students are from less privilege homes, they will be affected. It is exploitative in nature”.SUN
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