Parents, group kick against UI increase in students acceptance fee

Parents, group kick against UI increase in students acceptance fee

Parents of newly admitted students of the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, have kicked against the increase in the acceptance fee payable by the students.

The university has announced on its website that prospective students are to pay N50,000 as their acceptance fee instead of N37,500 previously paid.

The increase has generated negative reactions with parents complaining bitterly about it.

They said there was no justification for such a decision by the institution.

On its website, the school’s statement partly read, “Candidates who have been offered provisional admission and have generated their admission letters on CAPS are hereby advised to proceed with the payment of a non-refundable Acceptance Fee of N50,000 only.”

One of the parents, also a lecturer at the university, was reported by The Guardian as saying, “It is serious. I have to pay an acceptance fee of N50,000 for my child.”

Adejoke Akinpelu, the principal assistant registrar and public relations officer of the Directorate of Public Communication, said only the registrar could speak on reasons the management came up with the increment.

Concerned group 

Meanwhile, a concerned group has called for the cancellation of UI’s acceptance fee increase.

The group, Concerned Students Against Tuition Fees (CSATF) Movement, in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Aduwo Ayodele, and Secretary, Kareem Abdullahi, called for the cancellation of the acceptance fee increase.

The group said it was against the decision of the university management to hike the acceptance fee from N37,500 to N50,000.