The Academic Staff Union of Universities -ASUU has said it would continue to embark on industrial actions until the government meets its demands.
Subsequently, the union is against any plan by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund -TETFund to include private universities in the country as beneficiary institutions of its projects.
The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, made the union’s position known at a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions. Osodeke maintained that such a move would lead to the proliferation of private universities devoid of quality.
While commending TETFund on delivery, he urged the fund to work more on the monitoring method of its projects across the country, stressing that the level of performance by the beneficiary institutions is not in tandem as some of them received the same amount of money.
He also called on TETFund to apply sanctions on non-performing institutions and advocate for the abolition of what he referred to as the stakeholders fund. According to him, ASUU will continue to embark on strike until the right thing is done in tertiary institutions.