The Politics of Access - University Education and Nation Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	March 2012
Authors:	Ogechi E Anyanwu
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	314
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-518-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	1-55238-518-3
Barcode:	9781552385180

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