The Politics of Access : university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000

The Politics of Access university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel, author (author), Anyanwu, Ogechi E. (Otro)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary University of Calgary Press 2011
Alberta, Canada : [2011]
Colección:Africa: missing voices series
Materias:
Education, Higher > History > 20th century > Nigeria.
Higher education and state > Political aspects > Nigeria.
Education, Higher > Nigeria.
Nation-building > Nigeria.
Economic development > Nigeria.
Nigeria > University > 1948-2000.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009672513506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The politics of colonial education
  • Towards educational reform: the Cold War, decolonization, and the Carnegie Corporation, 1952-60
  • The Ashby Commission, regionalism, and university education in the 1960's
  • Centralization of universities and national integration, 1970-79: the legacy of the Nigerian civil war
  • The second republic and the burden of expansion,1979–83: free education, science and technology, and quota system
  • Rationalization Policy: the IMF/World Bank and structural adjustment program, 1984–90
  • Crisis of nationhood: funding issues, socio-political Instability, and private university education, 1990–2000.

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