FG inward crucial coming together amongst ASUU today •‘Talks amongst VCs fruitful
The Federal Government together with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) volition come across today inward a final ditch try to resolve the lingering crisis inward the University System.
As a prelude to the coming together scheduled for 10.00a.m today, the Federal Government was locked inward a coming together amongst the Vice Chancellors of the federal universities for close ii hours on Monday.
Supervising Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, afterwards the closed door coming together declined comment to newsmen, merely told journalists that the authorities would survive coming together amongst the leadership of ASUU today.
Wike, who chaired the coming together held at the auditorium of the National Universities Commission (NUC), had said the coming together was a normal interaction amongst the vice chancellors.
Before the root of the meeting, Wike excused journalists, personal assistants, his aides together with all others, except the vice chancellors, ostensibly to forestall leakage of their deliberations.
The Federal Government together with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) volition come across today inward a final ditch try to resolve the lingering crisis inward the University System.
As a prelude to the coming together scheduled for 10.00a.m today, the Federal Government was locked inward a coming together amongst the Vice Chancellors of the federal universities for close ii hours on Monday.
Wike, who chaired the coming together held at the auditorium of the National Universities Commission (NUC), had said the coming together was a normal interaction amongst the vice chancellors.
Before the root of the meeting, Wike excused journalists, personal assistants, his aides together with all others, except the vice chancellors, ostensibly to forestall leakage of their deliberations.
However, it was gathered that the coming together was to consider how the universities that accept been shut for close 4 months now could survive reopened to students equally good equally fine-tune give-and-take on the set of the authorities against the coming together amongst ASUU today.
Wike had final calendar week assured that the protracted smasher would before long survive called off based on the resultant of the final parley amongst ASUU leadership.
H5N1 national daily had reported that based on the fresh understanding betwixt the Federal Government together with ASUU, the leadership of ASUU was to become dorsum to brief its members at a coming together afterwards the Eid-el-kabir celebration.
It was gathered, on Monday, that the coming together today would afford the ASUU to written report to the authorities close the set of the spousal human relationship on the offers past times the Federal Government together with then far.
The fresh accord struck past times the Vice-President Namadi Sambo amongst the union, authorities had agreed to increment the N30 billion already released for the payment of academic earned allowance to N40 billion.
According to sources, the authorities likewise agreed that the N40 billion should survive regarded solely equally firstly instalment, together with non a once-and-for-all payment.
The memorandum drafted at the of the meeting indicated that the authorities would seat off it upwardly amongst farther releases in ane trial universities are through amongst the disbursement of N40 million.
Accordingly, vice chancellors were urged to expedite the disbursement inside the shortest possible fourth dimension using guiding templates that accept been sent past times the Committee of Vice Chancellors to them.
On the implementation of the Needs Assessment to Nigerian Universities report, it was stated that the authorities was cognisant together with mindful of the mightiness of universities to effectively together with efficiently utilise the N100 billion fund immediately, thus that figure.
“However, inward add-on to this N100 billion dedicated together with already to survive made available for 2013, N200 billion (increased from N150 billion previously agreed) volition at nowadays survive earmarked inward the 2014 budget, equally good equally each of the next three-four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard.
Also, on projection prioritisation, universities would at nowadays survive allowed to decide their priorities together with non survive “rail-roaded” into implementing a pre-determined laid of projects amongst abide by to the NEEDS assessment. Decisions are non to survive centralised.
The authorities likewise assured that the operations of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would non survive impaired, together with that the regular TETFund intervention disbursement to universities woul continue, unaffected.
“So, the NEEDS assessment uppercase outlays are inward add-on to regular TETFund intervention.”
Although, the President of ASUU, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge, could non confirm the willingness of ASUU to attend today’s meeting, merely the Nigerian Tribune gathered that zonal meetings of ASUU inward their diverse universities were held final calendar week to collate persuasion of the members of the authorities offers.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
Wike had final calendar week assured that the protracted smasher would before long survive called off based on the resultant of the final parley amongst ASUU leadership.
H5N1 national daily had reported that based on the fresh understanding betwixt the Federal Government together with ASUU, the leadership of ASUU was to become dorsum to brief its members at a coming together afterwards the Eid-el-kabir celebration.
It was gathered, on Monday, that the coming together today would afford the ASUU to written report to the authorities close the set of the spousal human relationship on the offers past times the Federal Government together with then far.
The fresh accord struck past times the Vice-President Namadi Sambo amongst the union, authorities had agreed to increment the N30 billion already released for the payment of academic earned allowance to N40 billion.
According to sources, the authorities likewise agreed that the N40 billion should survive regarded solely equally firstly instalment, together with non a once-and-for-all payment.
The memorandum drafted at the of the meeting indicated that the authorities would seat off it upwardly amongst farther releases in ane trial universities are through amongst the disbursement of N40 million.
Accordingly, vice chancellors were urged to expedite the disbursement inside the shortest possible fourth dimension using guiding templates that accept been sent past times the Committee of Vice Chancellors to them.
On the implementation of the Needs Assessment to Nigerian Universities report, it was stated that the authorities was cognisant together with mindful of the mightiness of universities to effectively together with efficiently utilise the N100 billion fund immediately, thus that figure.
“However, inward add-on to this N100 billion dedicated together with already to survive made available for 2013, N200 billion (increased from N150 billion previously agreed) volition at nowadays survive earmarked inward the 2014 budget, equally good equally each of the next three-four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard.
Also, on projection prioritisation, universities would at nowadays survive allowed to decide their priorities together with non survive “rail-roaded” into implementing a pre-determined laid of projects amongst abide by to the NEEDS assessment. Decisions are non to survive centralised.
The authorities likewise assured that the operations of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would non survive impaired, together with that the regular TETFund intervention disbursement to universities woul continue, unaffected.
“So, the NEEDS assessment uppercase outlays are inward add-on to regular TETFund intervention.”
Although, the President of ASUU, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge, could non confirm the willingness of ASUU to attend today’s meeting, merely the Nigerian Tribune gathered that zonal meetings of ASUU inward their diverse universities were held final calendar week to collate persuasion of the members of the authorities offers.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
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