INITIATIVE
To convert all Federal Polytechnics and Colleges of Education into campuses of Neighbouring Federal universities

ADVANTAGES

• Improve the carrying capacity of the universities, particularly given their inability to accommodate a vast number of applicants through JAMB. Experience worldwide has shown that no nation has achieved a technological and socio-political advance where less than 15% of its qualified young citizens have access to University education. The US has achieved over 80% access while in Europe the average is 35%.
  
  
• Eliminate the desperate desire for University education as against other tertiary institutions.
  
  
• Reduce huge overhead costs by consolidating:
  
  
  1. the supervisory agencies (NUC, NBTE and NCCE).
     
     
  2. the Boards of three parastatals and 37 Governing Councils.
     
     
  3. Chief Executives, Registrars and other principal officers.
     
     
• Improve funding to universities in areas of infrastructural and instructional facilities, research, scholarly publications and staff training and development through the consolidation of ETF intervention.
  
  
• Improve teacher quality since eventually only those qualified to teach at University level will be engaged.
  
  
• Improve the quality of intake thereby eliminating the problems associated with the “study centres/campuses” established by many universities nationwide before they were directed to close them down by the NUC.
  
  
• Enhance the quality of the nation’s manpower.
  
  

ANTECEDENTS

• The idea builds on a familiar historical tradition in Nigeria. Some universities started as campuses of other universities: UI (London), Jos and Ilorin (UI), BUK, ATBU (ABU), FUTY (Unimaid), Calabar (UNN) etc.
  
• Some universities presently operate multiple campuses located in:
  
  
  1. same city i.e. the ABU campuses at Congo and Samaru; or
     
     
  2. Other cities within a reasonable distance such as the two UNN campuses at Enugu and Nsukka
     
     
• As Advanced Teachers’ Colleges (ATCs), some of the COEs started as campuses of neighbouring universities eg ATC/ABU Kano and ATC/ABU Zaria. Today COE Zaria and the Congo Campus of ABU are only separated by a street. So too is COE Kano which is directly opposite the main gate of the city campus of BUK.
  
  
• A number of Polytechnics and COEs are presently awarding degrees by affiliation. Until recently, some COEs (both Federal and State) were in fact awarding their NCEs by affiliation.
  
  

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