These universities had greatly expanded their teaching facilities, only to suddenly face a sharp drop in applicants for the lucrative self-sponsored ‘parallel degree programmes. The majority were young people rich in dreams and ambition, but very poor in grammar and syntax. And for many years this meant doing everything possible to get at least one of the kids into university. But, for a national government, expanding opportunities in higher education in response to increasing demand is the easier part. Creating employment for the tens of thousands of young people who will then graduate every year, is far more difficult.

Source: The Star March 07, 2019 02:48 UTC