Tuition Hike: Babcock Varsity, Parents’ Meeting Deadlocked

Protests marked an interactive session between the management of Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, and members of the Parents, Consultative Forum to resolve the controversy generated by the recent increment in school fees on Tuesday. The university had, on August 17, announced an increment in tuition for fresh and returning students for the 2015/2016 academic session. It was gathered that while Law students who used to pay N870,000 (with two meals a day), have now been mandated to pay N1.5m, while medical students who used to pay N2m per session, now have to pay N3m. The meeting was already underway when a horde of parents who could not be accommodated inside the venue, within the Babcock Business School building, forced the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kayode Makinde, to relocate it to the church within the campus. At the meeting, some of them protested against the hike in tuition, describing it as exploitative and fraudulent. Among other issues, the parents decried the timing of the increment and also demanded an explanation of the miscellaneous component of the school fees as well as professional fees charged by the university every session without corresponding certificates to show for it. At the end of the meeting, which lasted for more than five hours, Makinde, who also doubled as the Chairman of the PCF, declared, “I do not have all the answers. But whatever question I cannot answer, I will not parry it. I would rather be punched now and be praised later rather than be praised now and punched later.”   
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