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

• VerfasserIn: Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel,
• Sonstige: Anyanwu, Ogechi E.
• Place / Publishing House: Alberta, Canada : : University of Calgary Press,, [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Africa: missing voices series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

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.