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RE: ADSactly History : Emergence Of Nigeria As A Political Entity [Part 4] - Educational System Of Nigeria

in #history5 years ago

:) I have not felt like a prof in months now.
If that is the case, I hope Nigeria can take some measures to veer towards a different direction. Politics killed our ed system, the dirty ideologization, to be more exact. The State desre to control everything saw in our universities potential enemies (because of the whole free-thinking concept). They were right in fearing free-thinking and they did what totalitarianism does best: they made sure universities would kneel and beg for every penny.
Thus, good bye to research, progress, innovation, global interconnections, corporate partnerships, etc.
That progressive soffucation of the university's financial and intellectual freedom turned them into big school totally dependent on "daddy State". When the government decided to neutralize them they just intervene every single thing, form student unions to faculty unions to insurance and retirement funds.