Increase InTuition To N250,000 - LAUTECH
The management of
the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, has announced the new
tuition for students of the school which takes effect in the 2018/2019 academic
session.
The school had
been faced with a crisis which led to its several closures with students losing
academic calendar. Staff members of the school accused the governments of Osun
and Oyo, which own the school, of failing to finance the institution while
establishing new universities of their own.
In a mail sent to
the students on Monday, it was announced that the new academic session would
start on October 29, 2018. The mail said indigenes of the owner states of Osun
and Oyo would pay N200, 000 while non-indigenes would pay N250, 000.
Some of the students
who spoke to our correspondent described the new fee as inconsiderate,
stressing that it represented more than 200 per cent increase from the old
tuition.
“This is an
astronomic increase because we were paying between N63, 500 (for indigenes) and
N72, 500 for non-indigenes before. This is not a good decision considering the
economic situation in the country,” said one of the students, Ayobami Arowolo.
The students on
Tuesday staged a protest in response to the hike in fee. They locked the gates
of the school and set up bon fires in front of the school campus in Ogbomoso.
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