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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141816803321

Autore

Anyanwu Ogechi Emmanuel

Titolo

The Politics of Access [[electronic resource] ] : university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000 / / Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Calgary, : University of Calgary Press, 2011

Alberta, Canada : , : University of Calgary Press, , [2011]

©2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Africa: missing voices series

Disciplina

378.6690904

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 without



looking 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.