2022 ABUAD’s anti-poverty programmes and Reviewed Plan

ABUAD’s anti-poverty programmes

In 2022, ABUAD has continued to ensure adequate Access and Participation (50 by 30) Plan with the major objective of delivering minimum 50 percent admission and completion for students from low household incomes in the bottom 20% of household income earning group that are below N200,000 a year by the year 2030. This is in a bid to ensure better educational access and participation that is affordable by the public.

In 2022, ABUAD enacts a policy that ALL STUDENTS (including low income households )in the University across all programmes shall be entitled to one hundred thousand Naira (N100,000.00) as University’s financial support for food during the academic session. This is to mitigate the present economic challenges bedeviling the Country.

ABUAD Access and Participation Plan 2020 – 2030 Reviewed in 2022

ACCESS AND PARTICIPATION PLAN EVALUATION (INPUT AND OUTPUT)

By putting in place various evaluation metrics. ABUAD’s access monitoring framework with respect to relevant inputs indicate that about 25% of ABUAD’s intake cohort in 2019 are from low household incomes (below N200,000 a year). This increased to 28.4% in 2020. In same manner, following the trend, the figure has increased to 32% in 2021. However, in 2022, there is an upsurge in the percentage due to the injection of more funds by the Afe Babalola Foundation owned by the Founder/Chancellor, Aare Afe Babalola SAN to support in providing access to affordable education by the low income household thereby making access to be increased to 88% in 2022. His avowed determination is to further increase it to over 100% in 2023. He also provided a sum of 10million pounds as endowment to King’s College, London for transnational education (to provide access to affordable education to African Youth via the partnership between Afe Babalola University, Nigeria and King’s College, London)

 In order to further support the achievement of the access and participation Plan as reviewed in 2022 and the injection of more funds by the Founder, ABUAD has continued to provide discounted tuition and bursary and scholarship support by the Founder in a number of its programs, especially part-time studies programs and open & distance learning programs (by Founder endowing a sum of 10 million pounds into a partnership with King’s College, London) aimed at delivering education to students from poor and vulnerable backgrounds that fall into the bottom 20% of household income group. (ABUAD begins discounted part-time studies for youths https://punchng.com/abuad-begins-discounted-part-time-studies-for-youths/)

Having gone through the process of the Access and Participation Plan document reviewed in 2022. ABUAD’s evaluation metrics in the access and participation monitoring framework with respect to relevant outputs indicate that 29.9% of our graduating students in 2019 were from low household incomes (below N200,000 a year). This proportion increased to 32.2% in 2020 and has remained stable in 2021. However it has further increased to 65% in 2022 due to economic challenges in the Country while injection of funds by the Founder through his Afe Babalola Foundation alleviates the poverty level for these students to finish their programmes and graduate successfully. Every students in the University benefits from a food grant of N100,000.00 in 2022/2023 academic session.

Good News: ABUAD Announces Discounted Fees in Part-Time Studies for Nigerian Youths https://www.abuad.edu.ng/good-news-abuad-announces-discounted-feesin-part-time-studies-for-nigerian-youths/

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