I THINK I think that reducing school fees with immediate effect has implications the government wants to avoid. The institutions are still cash-strapped and have to fall back on their IGR. The school fees form the crux of this. Whatever the government prevents schools from collecting, they will have to provide. TASCE for instance is writing 2nd semester exams. If you plan to refund money to students, where will you get it? It is already spent and was in fact, grossly inadequate. If you make the amount you may opt to refund a part of next sessions fees, you almost wipe out next sessions IGR. And graduati g students will not benefit. As it stands, the government has to review its budget because it must balance increasing wages of staff, backlogs of unpaid salaries/allowances (TASCE alone has over 40 month and OOU arrears have been cleared by this same Amosun), re-payment of unremitted deductions, increase in student bursary...all this must be balanced against the reduction of fees which is already a huge drop in school fees related IGR. Maybe the protests will force further commitment from government, maybe the government will hold firm. Both sides have benefits. But I also think. Nothing is free. If the students dont pay, government must get that money somewhere. taxpayers, VAT, levies, licenses, permits, rates, rents...government must find this money somewhere deep in our pockets.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:46:47 +0000
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