Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System
Published on 1. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-85255-172-1 (ISBN)
Description
Maps the changing character of the university system in Nigeria, focusing on gender.
The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based national development, and to provide guides to understanding.
This study asks four major questions about gender in the Nigerian university system: How have gendered structures and processes at thecontextual and systemic levels affected universities? In what ways have the workings of the university system contributed to gender differentials? How have women contributed to policy issues in university education? What are thegender implications of existing reforms of the university system?
In association with Partnership for Higher Education in Africa; Nigeria: HEBN
The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based national development, and to provide guides to understanding.
This study asks four major questions about gender in the Nigerian university system: How have gendered structures and processes at thecontextual and systemic levels affected universities? In what ways have the workings of the university system contributed to gender differentials? How have women contributed to policy issues in university education? What are thegender implications of existing reforms of the university system?
In association with Partnership for Higher Education in Africa; Nigeria: HEBN
Reviews / Votes
The volumes [in the series] provide an invaluable source of comparative financial and institutional data for what one hopes will be a growing field of African higher education studies. - -- David Mills * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-172-1 (9780852551721)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction; The colonial background; The post-colonial context; The system of university education; From the policy environment to the job market; The politics of funding; The gendered composition of federal universities; Institutional cultures & equality agendas; What constitutes reform?; Conclusions & recommendations.