Planning and Funding of Higher Education in Nigeria: The Challenges

Autor/inn/en	Akinyemi, Samuel; Bassey, Ofem Igot
Titel	Planning and Funding of Higher Education in Nigeria: The Challenges
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 5 (2012) 4, S.86-95 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Educational Quality; College Planning; Educational Resources; Educational Finance; Enrollment Influences; Enrollment Rate; Declining Enrollment; Personnel Policy; Teacher Student Ratio; Unemployment; Graduation Rate; Skill Analysis; Population Distribution; Educational Policy; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Studienplanung; Bildungsmittel; Bildungsfonds; Personalpolitik; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Arbeitslosigkeit; Demographical distribution; Bevölkerungsverteilung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator
Abstract	Higher education remains the pivot of national development in Nigeria. This is because the stock of highly-educated individuals produced by higher education institutions plays an important role in the innovation and the sustainable development of any society. However, over time, these institutions have experienced increase in enrolments and yet the number of candidates seeking admission into these institutions outpaces the available spaces in the institutions. Inadequate fiscal resources have also eroded the desired qualitative higher education and the needed national development. In this paper, challenges facing planning and funding of qualitative higher education in Nigeria are examined. The paper therefore infers the need for proper planning of higher education system to ensure qualitative higher education so as to reduce educational wastages and enhance effective utilization of the available educational scarce resources. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01