Students of the Lagos State
University will start paying a sum of N150,000 tuition fee for a second stream
undergraduate programme.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof.
Olanrewaju Fagbohun, said the second stream degree programme was introduced to
help deepen the entrepreneurship skills of students of the institution.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports the Vice-Chancellor as saying, “Our regular Stream 1 programme tuition
fee is still N25,000, while medical students pay N37,000.
“But for Stream 2
entrepreneurship programme, the tuition fee is N150,000, aside from acceptance
and medical fees,”
However, Fagbohun was said to
have refuted speculation that LASU had increased tuition fees for its
undergraduate programmes.
It is not clear whether or not
the second stream degree programme would be optional or mandatory for students
of the university.
According to NAN, Fagbohun said
the entrepreneurship programme, which would run along with normal undergraduate
degrees, would prepare students to be self-employed and employers of labour.
The Vice-Chancellor added that
“Research indicates that small-medium enterprises employ more than 80 per cent
of the workforce in Nigeria.
“That is why we have a very close
working relationship with SMEs, so they can impact on the university and impart
right entrepreneurship skills to the students.
“Before starting, the Stream 2
entrepreneurship programme will go through all the approval processes of the
university.
“Critical thing for LASU is
quality assurance which means the two-stream programmes will be standard and
run successfully together without any programme failing.
“We have a directorate of quality
assurance that monitors every programme of the university in order to achieve
best practices,” the vice-chancellor said.
He said that entrepreneurship
courses would be taught only during the first year of the regular Stream 1
programme, while it would be taught throughout the duration of the Stream 2
programme.
Also speaking, Prof. Martins
Anetekhan, Director, LASU Centre for Entrepreneur, said the university was
concerned about widespread unemployment among graduates of Nigerian
universities.
“After the investigation, we
realised that most graduates are not getting jobs because the available job
vacancies can not accommodate them.
“It means they have to be
skillful and adjust their mindset to become entrepreneurs who can also employ
others and contribute to national development.
“Apart from giving them knowledge
on normal degree programme, LASU introduced Stream 2 programme so they can also
acquire some skills, knowledge through entrepreneurship programmes,” he said.
Anetekhan said that there were 79
different areas of entrepreneurship for the Stream 2 programme and teaching had
been arranged such that it would not clash with the normal degree programmes.
“We should all know that
entrepreneurship programme is the delivery of handsome skills and LASU
partnered with many small scale industries to teach the students,” he said.
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