Nigeria Loses N16trn Capital Flight to UK Education In Three Years
By Fatimah Bala Kawu
An estimated sum of N16 trillion is spent by Nigerians seeking education in the United Kingdom, a data from the United Kingdom Home Office as created with Datawrapper has shown.
In the data obtained by AbujaCityJournal, the number of Nigerian students that have been issued study visas to the UK rose significantly from 8,384 in 1919 to 65,929 in June 2022 representing 222.75 percent rise.
The data also revealed that at the same time 9,066 Nigerian education seekers received their visas by June 2020 at 13% above the 2019 figure while 20,427 [125.31% rise] got theirs as at June of 2021 as against 65,929 students that have received their visas as at June of 2022.
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An educational website, www.topuniversities.com puts average UK tuition fees for international undergraduate to start at around £10,000 and going up to £38,000 or more for medical degrees; and this is outside of other expenses spent on accommodation as well as other expenses.
This is even as the website posits that educational prices have also risen to eye-watering levels for home students in the UK and European Union, EU in recent years.
At an average cost of 30,000 pounds annual costs per an international student studying in the United Kingdom, that is about GBP2billions representing no fewer than N16 trillion thrown to the British educational system annually.
Today, Nigerian students in public universities have been at home for about eight months because of industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over breach of an agreement between the union and the Nigerian government.
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