Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T12:22:45.829Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Higher Education in Nigeria: Decades of Development and Decline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Festus Eribo
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

On October 1, 1960, the British colonialists departed Nigeria, leaving behind one lonely university campus at Ibadan which was established in 1948 as an affiliate of the University of London and a prototype of British educational philosophy for the colonies. Thirty-five years into the post-colonial era, Nigerians established 40 new universities, 69 polytechnics, colleges of technology and of education. Twenty of the universities and 17 polytechnics are owned by the federal government while the state governments control the others. Nigerian universities are largely directed by Nigerian faculty and staff. The student enrollment in the universities is on the increase, reaching an estimated 400,000 Nigerian students and a handful of African and non-African students.

Type
Issues in African Higher Education
Information
African Issues , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 1996 , pp. 64 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1996

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

Festus Eribo is Associate Professor of Communication at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

References

Notes

1. Husen, Torsten, and Postlethwaite, T. Neville, eds., 1994, The International Encyclopedia of Education, New York: Pergamon, pp. 4127-28Google Scholar

2. Yesufu, T. M., 1973, Creating the African University: Emerging Issues in the 1970’s, Ibadan: Oxford University Press, pp. 116, 185, and 257.Google Scholar

3. Fafunwa, Babs A., 1974, History of Education in Nigeria, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., pp. 210–11Google Scholar.

4. Oshagbemi, Titus, 1988, Leadership and Management in Universities, Britain and Nigeria. New York: Walter de Gruyter, p. 10 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5. Steve Ogude, 1993 “From Ivory to Wooden Towers,” The Guardian, June 22, p. 25.

6. Reuters World Report, 1995, February 17, 1995. Culled from Naijanet on the Internet.

7. West Africa, “African Universities: The Staff Dilemma,” May 29-June 4, 1995, p. 843.

8. Voice of America, Internet, August 3, 1995.

9. Abacha, Sani (1995) “An Address to the Nation by General Sani Abacha on the 35th anniversary of the independence of Nigeria,” Abuja: Office of the President, pp. 4-5.