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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background | |
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| Education for Nation-Building | |
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| Education for Development | |
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| Organization | |
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| The Politics of Colonial Education | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Western Education and the Making of Nigeria | |
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| Development of Higher Education | |
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| Access, Economic Development, and Nation-Building | |
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| Towards Educational Reform: The Cold War, Decolonization, and the Carnegie Corporation, 1952-60 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Education in National Politics | |
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| Postwar Nigeria | |
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| The Ashby Commission and the Question of Relevance | |
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| The Ashby Commission, Regionalism, and University Education in the 1960s | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Blueprint for Change | |
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| Implementing Ashby's Report | |
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| Colonial Legacy | |
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| Towards Centralization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Centralization of Universities and National Integration, 1970-79: The Legacy of the Nigerian Civil War | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Continuing Elitism | |
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| Federal Control of University Education | |
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| Quota System and Admission Reform | |
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| Recession of 1978 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Second Republic and the Burden of Expansion, 1979-83: Free Education, Science and Technology, and Quota System | |
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| Introduction | |
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| National Open University and Universities of Technology | |
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| Quota System and the Challenges of Nationhood | |
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| State Participation in Higher Education | |
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| Economic Meltdown of 1983 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Rationalization Policy: The IMF/World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program, 1984-90 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Buhari and the Search for Cost-Saving Measures | |
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| Babangida, IMF, and Universities | |
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| The World Bank and the White Paper on University Reform | |
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| The Impact of IMF/World Bank Policies on Universities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Crisis of Nationhood: Funding Issues, Socio-Political Instability, and Private University Education, 1990-2000 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Nigeria, Still a Divided Nation | |
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| Poor Funding, ASUU, and Military Dictatorship | |
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| Satellite Campuses | |
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| Private Universities | |
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| Towards a Renewed Commitment to Educational Expansion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Colonial Origins | |
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| The 1960s | |
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| Post-Civil War Nation-Building | |
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| Setbacks in Expansion | |
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| Recent Trends | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |