Nigeria: Toying With University Education

18 August 2015

Two news items last week heightened the crisis in the tertiary education sector. First is the unconfirmed report that the Federal Government plans to revert four Universities of Education it upgraded in May 2014 (about a year ago), to their former status as colleges of education.

The second is the denial of full operational licences (accreditation) to eleven (11) private universities. The two reports underscore the magnitude of problems confronting education in general and tertiary education in particular.

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