Osinbajo tasks academics on healthcare, tertiary education reforms
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said professors and academics must take a keen interest in education and healthcare.
He urged them to explore options for reform and innovation in those Human Capital Development sectors.
Osinbajo said this in a statement by his spokesman Laolu Akande yesterday in Abuja.
The statement said the vice president had a virtual meeting with a team of professors drawn from the six geo-political zones under the auspices of the Progressive Intellectuals Advisory Group (PIAG).
Osinbajo, who interacted with the dons on a number of topical national development issues, urged stakeholders, especially members of professional bodies, to make contributions towards addressing them.
“Given the rate of interest in tertiary education, we cannot cope with the brick-and-mortar approach. We won’t be able to cope with the numbers in the near future because there will be millions more who will not be able to get into our schools,” he said.
The vice president said one of the things he had always given deep thoughts to was how to be deliberate about online tertiary education and how to develop it to the point where Nigeria could offer the best services in the sector.
“One of the things I want us to think about is how we can develop this idea and in what ways we can put together a plan, even if it is just an outline so that we can push the idea further,” he said.
On healthcare, the vice president urged members of the group to support the Federal Government’s efforts to reform the healthcare system by contributing to ideas that would make health insurance work effectively in the country.
Osinbajo announced that a Health Reform Committee was already looking at the issues.
“The second thing is healthcare and how we can fund it,” he said.
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