House of Representatives has concluded plans to convene a National Summit on Tertiary Education Reform. The summit is expected to hold on Tuesday, 22nd and Wednesday, 23rd November, 2022.
The Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, while welcoming his colleagues back to plenary yesterday after the budget defense exercise, said the summit, which aimed at meeting the legislative agenda of the House, was an opportunity to begin the long overdue national conversation about the future of public tertiary education in Nigeria.
The House had adjourned plenary for four weeks to concentrate on the defense of the 2022 budget implementation and 2023 budget proposal by the MDAs.
At the resumption of plenary yesterday, the speaker said, “Scholars, tertiary education administrators, and local and international stakeholders have been invited to submit papers on the theme of the Summit, “Reimagining Tertiary Education in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and Solutions”, and other sub-themes provided in a call for memoranda. The presentations and submissions would inform the policy recommendations of the summit and be published in a journal for policy action and academic reference. So far public interest both within and outside Nigeria has been impressive.
