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Crisis in Ajayi Crowther University and the Question of Private Education Front Gate, Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo The recent newspaper report of the crisis in Aja yi Crowther University, Oyo, has again brought to the fore the role of privately owned educational institutions as a way out of the crises in the public education sector. According to reports, the students of the institution had embarked on a violent protest to vent their anger, against the mismanagement of health condition of a fellow student by the university administration leading to his demise. The victim student had gone to the institution’s health centre to complain of health problems, but his situation grew worse that his breathing had to be supported with artificial oxygen. Rather than put on the electricity generating set to attend to the student, the health centre management preferred to preserve the generating set for the vice chancellor. Worse still, attempt by the deceased colleagues to faci...

Crisis in Ajayi Crowther University and the Question of Private Education The recent newspaper report of the crisis in Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, has again brought to the fore the role of privately owned educational institutions as a way out of the crises in the public education sector. According to reports, the students of the institution had embarked on a violent protest to vent their anger, against the mismanagement of health condition of a fellow student by the university administration leading to his demise. The victim student had gone to the institution’s health centre to complain of health problems, but his situation grew worse that his breathing had to be supported with artificial oxygen. Rather than put on the electricity generating set to attend to the student, the health centre management preferred to preserve the generating set for the vice chancellor. Worse still, attempt by the deceased colleagues to facilitate his transfer to better hospital in town was frustr...