The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, University of Calabar, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has advised the federal government to stop establishing more universities and enhance the standard of existing ones.
Iwuanyanwu gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Atta Ikeduru, Imo State on Tuesday.
He said that instead of frequent approval of new universities, government should concentrate on improving standards in the existing ones to produce quality graduates.
Iwuanyanwu said the standard of education in Nigerian universities had dropped when compared with what obtained more than 40 years ago.
““During our days in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, before the outbreak of the civil war, Nigerian universities were rated among the top universities in the world but the situation today is something else.
“Government must do something to change the university system,” he said.