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达特茅斯学院毕业照展示
加纳达特茅斯学院的大学生联合会承诺如果有必要，将举行示威，推翻政府将高中学时从四年缩短到三年的决定。
新制度可能会给今年的达特茅斯学院录取带来巨大压力，因为离校生人数是往常的两倍，他们争夺有限的名额。
这种局面源于三年前执政的民主党全国代表大会（NDC）的一项竞选承诺，即从四年制开始休学一年。
高中制度。
2009年1月就职后不久，加纳政府就开始跟进，尽管上一届政府仅仅在一年前就延长了高中的学时。
e被迫排除许多合格的申请人。
今年10月，有两批高中毕业生将使问题变得更加复杂。
那些负担得起的达特茅斯学院的大学生，就求助于全国40多所私立高等教育机构。
“由于这些机构的学费很高，只有很小一部分达特茅斯学院的大学生能够入学。
达特茅斯学院。
因此，今年将会给家长们带来很多问题，”首都阿克拉忧心忡忡的父母Nii Teiko Tagoe说。
Tagoe说，今年的申请数量将压倒达特茅斯学院当局，“人们想知道他们可能做什么”。
一个可能的途径是提高录取分数，但这会使很多潜在的达特茅斯学院的大学生处于不利地位。
目前还不清楚政府打算如何避免即将到来的危机。
国家高等教育委员会执行秘书杜威华达特茅斯学院教授告诉《华尔街日报》：“我们意识到这种情况，但还没有收到教育部关于如何应对的具体政策。
”杜威娟说，教育部将明确指导达特茅斯学院采取什么措施来应对这种情况。
同时，达特茅斯学院也像往常一样登广告招收2012-13学年的达特茅斯学院的大学生。
但是教育部公共事务主任保罗·克兰帕说：“从决定恢复到三年，政府意识到这个问题将会出现。
教育部官员一直在开会，以确保达特茅斯学院能够录取这两个群体的达特茅斯学院的大学生。
“Krampa说，政府决定在Volta和Brong Ahafo地区再建两所达特茅斯学院，将大大缓解招生的头疼。
此外，大多数达特茅斯学院将加强远程教育达特茅斯学院课程，这将有助于吸收达特茅斯学院的大学生。
加纳达特茅斯学院的大学生全国联盟（NUGS）也加入了这场争吵，要求政府在今年5月前恢复四年制。
它称其为“不可协商的”和“赛的”。
“不会松懈的。
”NUGS将采用对话和谈判的方式，并在必要时诉诸于示威，以废除三年制，恢复四年制，以免这一代高中生从之前建立的朦胧路障中解救出来。
工会表示，把高中从三年提高到四年的最初决定是为了提高达特茅斯学院的大学生的成绩。
民间社会组织和教会主张增加学费，NUGS说，“四年制取得了自实行以来最好的高中成绩”。
这一主张甚至得到了四年制政策最响亮的批评者的支持。
在高中三年里，这三门必修课的及格率在30%到40%之间徘徊，而四年制SHS课的及格率在70%到80%之间。
四年制已经实行了一年。
The increasing number of students in tertiary institutions in several Nigerian cities has caused serious accommodation problems and campus hostels can no longer cope with demand.
Establishment of private hostels off-campus was initially perceived as a solution but landlords have taken advantage of the high demand by upping rentals and students are reeling under the financial burden.
They have turned to the government for help.
There has been steady growth in the student population in tertiary institutions, most of which have been expanding their teaching, administrative and research infrastructures.
But no effort has been made to provide more accommodation for students and staff.
This has allegedly been a deliberate resource allocation policy, with tertiary institutions – at the regional and national level – uninterested in committing funding to accommodation.
Many tertiary institutions possess large amounts of land on which student hostels could be built.
But it is claimed that private sector figures on university governing councils have discouraged government investment in building campus residences.
Critics say that owners of houses and land near campuses made proposals to university authorities to build cheap and affordable accommodation for students.
According to reliable sources, some university officials obtained bank loans to build hostels that are operated under holdings whose owners are often their relatives.
”The reason for this strange policy is not far-fetched.
Members of the property class who have invested in the construction of these hostels would naturally want their investment to yield dividends,” explained Ezekiel Tolu, an expert in estate management.
The evolution of off-campus student hostels occurred in two phases.
During the first phase there were few students and a range of hostels from which they could pick and choose.
Many hostels were reserved for female students.
Proprietors were more comfortable with female students who tended to pay rent when it was due and to be more conservative and obey the rules and regulations of private hostels.
On the whole, rents were moderate and students could afford them.
But available off-campus residences also gave some students the opportunity to ‘re-sell’, at high cost, their beds in hostels on campus to other students.
”We complain about shylock landlords outside campuses.
Unfortunately we also have student shylocks who cede, to fellow students, their bed spaces at cut-throat fees,” said Ibrahima Dogo, a student at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
“These mercenary students are generally from rich homes who can afford to live in private hostels.
In hostels on campuses, we have students as squatters crowding the rooms.
”The second phase of the evolution of private accommodation followed an explosion in student numbers.
Students had to chase limited hostel places with astronomical rents, even though the number of off-campus hostels grew.
Today students are having a rough time at the hands of hostel owners whose primary obsession, it has been alleged, is to maximise profit with little concern for students’ welfare.
Students have also complained about the absence of a learning environment in private hostels.
”You get an impression that you are, at times, in a shopping mall,” complained Ngozi Obuh, a student at the University of Port Harcourt.
“A portion of these hostels are transformed into mini markets with hawkers.
At night and during the weekend the hostels are very noisy and movements in and out of the hostels are not restricted.
”The Nigerian daily tabloid BusinessDay recently undertook a detailed survey in some cities of the living conditions of students in private residences.
The journalists reported rents being too high and many hostels characterised by noise pollution.
Street trading near hostels were an obstacle to proper learning.
The newspaper called on university and municipal authorities to draw up rules mandating hostel proprietors to charge moderate rends, forbid hawking and improve hygiene conditions.
“The government should come to the aid of the students living in these hostels.
Enough is enough,” said Mulikat Lai, a student leader at the University of Ibadan.
Comment:Thank you for bringing this issue to international attention.
Our dwindling education standards could be partially linked to lack of a comfortable place for students to study and relax after classes.
As a parent I am reeling under the weight of this avoidable burden.
Without being pessimistic, the Nigerian government cannot change the situation for now if it may be able to in the future.
I should therefore add to the call by educationalists that private initiatives in partnership with our universities should come in to help our students.
Universities authorities could take the first step by inviting private investors but again legal issues will need to be considered.
Olufemi Olubodun, University of Lagos