On the "Affiliated Campuses" of the European-American University's webpage reads:-
European-American University conducts no educational activities in Africa directly and no citizen of any African country is an employee or owner of the University. The University does not own or rent any form of premises in Africa, does not maintain any offshore campus or distance learning centre there, and is not part of any national system of education in any African country.
The above information implies that the UniUnivers has given the authority to here international Partner's to tregat any inquiriy from prospective student within the African region; that the University will advise any prospective student contacting them within the region to contact any of her Affiliated Campuses also known as "International Partners":directly which is indeed a welcome development.
The information also indicated that the University is not part of any national system of education in any African country.
The above information takes the following analysis:-
ROYAL CHARTER
The University was Incorporated in Uganda under her Royal Charter making her becomes authonomus and independent from any Government Educational Authority in any part of the world in accordance with UNESCO's rules.
The Charter would have been done in any of those Advanced countries but she chooses any of the African countries to avoid high taxation in order to make her Secular Degrees affordable to prospective African Students being the subsidiary of the Western Orthodox University founded since 1945 immediately after the Second World War.
Any Chartered institution becomes self accrediting and independent from the Ministry of Education's stringent policy and rules like the University of London and others in the U.K and in other parts of the world. (Check Google search Results for more details).
BILATERAL AND MULTILERAL INSTITUTIONS
The aforementioned Institutions play significant role in the national educational sector regarding her manpower development, basic Educational infrastructure and technology transfer based on the Balateral and Multilateral Agreement signed with the host government by the aforementioned Institutions.
This is however, Government -to- Government support initiative and does not involve individual University directly: but based on the national educational frame work through her Ministry of Education and her Accrediting Agency. Consequently, only the endigenous Government approved Universities would benefit from the scheme.
However, foreign University may be involved for her manpower development in the educational project through her Consultancy unit like the University of California FCA as Training Consultant involving the Staff of the Ministry of Education in the host country in order to operate her educational system effectively in conformity with international standard practices and in accordance with UNESCO's rules.
EDUCATIONAL JOINT VENTURE PARNERSHIP
Foreign Investors in the educational sector would cooperate with other educational investors in another country to establish a joint venture University. In which case, they must follow all the due process in line with the host government parameters relating to foreign joint venture establishment and in cooperation with the Ministry of Education through her Accrediting Agency like the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria and the California University FCA of the United States in order to be qualified for Degree award.
Based on this development, Development Aid Agency had been established in most advanced countries with the purpose of technology transfer through joint venture partnership to the Developing and Least Developed countries as classified by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Member Nations through project identification, Grants Award for pre-feasibility and feasibility studies on viable projects that would be of Economic benefit to the host country and providing soft loans with interest rate far below the conventional lending rates using Development Banks as intermediaries in the host country in which case, the Bilateral and Multilateral financial institutions become the key players.
However, it is not mandatory for every University on Earth to operate as joint venture for her degree to be recognized in foreign countries. Educational joint venture establishment is based on individual's investor's initiative like any other business venture.
Consequently, you do not expect every University to form joint ventures in foreign countries for her degrees to be recognized; so it also not applicable for any foreign University to form a joint venture in Nigeria for her degrees to be recognized.
Evidently, there are some thousands of government approved Universities around the world that are not part of the Nigerian educational system yet their degrees are recognized in Nigeria provided they are verified by the National Youth Service Corps officials to award the NYSC Certificate as proof of recognition.
THE LIMITATIONS OF ONLINE UNIVERSITY
The Internet based institutions also known as On-line Universities are quite limited to the required basic educational infrastructure and other relevant facilities on ground which are used as the main criteria for approval by the Ministry of Education as oppose to the campus based traditional Universities and other tertiary institutions.
Consequently, are automatically excemped from the Bilateral and Multilateral financial support initiative either directly or through the Joint Venture Partnership of the required basic facilities on ground as the basis for which the aforementioned financial support could have been made feasible.
Due to the increasing global Economic inflation, most Universities are going online back-up with sophisticated educational software including verious forms of video conferencing and other online facilities bridging the gap between classroom and online studies.
Aside from Engineering and advanced scientific courses that require personal contact, all other courses could be studying online limiting the cost intensiveness of the required basic facilities on ground, high cost of taxation, payment of dues to the Educational Authorities, high cost of labour wages and devoid of labour law infringement.
In the afamative, Lecturers are employed online locating remotely in any part of the world earning far less below the nationally approved minimum wage in the online University's country of origin.
Consequently, operating Online University is far more advantageous than campus based traditional University which requires all the state of the art facilities on ground before approval by the Educational Authorities while it becomes irrelevant for the online University operation and would not require Bilateral and Multilateral financial support either directly or indirectly and cannot fit into the national Educational system within the African region and around the world like the European-American University; provided she had been legally approved to award her overseas degrees from her country of origin operating through the internet and through her Affiliated Campuses as every online operatives around the world in the digital age.
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