When are we going to have a tution-free university in Nigeria? The United Nations recently launched what they claim to be the world’s
first tuition-free online university. Can you imagine this? Dubbed University of the People,
the site aims to bring education to the masses. One Shai Reshef, head of the
venture, has ambitions of giving free textbooks, e-learning, and
peer-to-peer teaching to hundreds of millions of people with no access
to conventional teaching methods. This is wonderful. Can you beat that? According to the UN, students will be
placed in classes of 20, after which they can log on to a weekly
lecture, discuss it with their peers, and take tests online. Volunteer
professors, graduate students, and students in other classes offer
additional training. We need such of this in Nigeria, as a matter of urgency. Do you agree with me?
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