The Politics of Access
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The Politics of Access

University Education and Nation Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000

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The Politics of Access

University Education and Nation Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000

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Through analysis of exceptionally rich data obtained from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, and from Nigeria's national archives, author Ogechi Anyanwu demonstrates how the pursuit of mass university education not only decolonized the elitist British education system but also ultimately reshaped modern Nigeria. More importantly, he argues that the impact of these policies cannot be fully understood withoutlooking closely at the intersection of domestic and external politics dictating the direction of higher education development as a vehicle for nation-building in Nigeria's pluralistic society.Although numerous studies have been made of Nigeria's higher education development in particular, and that of Africa in general, no work has placed the pursuit of mass university education (massification) at the centre of that country's postcolonial higher education reform or discussed it as a policy-driven and need-driven phenomenon. In The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000, Anyanwu undertakes a historical analysis of the diachronic impact of Nigeria's domestic socioeconomic, political, and ethno-religious forces, as well as external interests, on the country's policy initiatives, shifts, and outcomes of mass higher education policies.

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Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781552385197
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Title Page
  4. Bibliographic Information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1: The Politics of Colonial Education
  11. 2: Towards Educational Reform: The Cold War, Decolonization, and the Carnegie Corporation, 1952–60
  12. 3: The Ashby Commission, Regionalism, and University Education in the 1960s
  13. 4: Centralization of Universities and National Integration, 1970–79: The Legacy of the Nigerian Civil War
  14. 5: The Second Republic and the Burden of Expansion, 1979–83: Free Education, Science and Technology, and Quota System
  15. 7: Crisis of Nationhood: Funding Issues, Socio-Political Instability, and Private University Education, 1990–2000