出版社：International Digital Organization for Scientific Information Publications
摘要：Education as well as its objective is a dynamic instrument needed to meet and satisfy the aspirationsof the citizens they are meant to serve. Limited resources and a rapidly expanding child population poseproblems of who gets educated in Nigeria. The question of educational imbalance has been a dominant issuewhich subsequent Nigerian governments have had to tackle since independence. No matter how much theytry to spread educational opportunity equitably, a number of barriers have acted to counter government’s goodintensions. It is even more serious now with the global economic belt-tightening which has many implicationsfor educational practice. This study examined the various dimensions of inequality of educational opportunitiesand advanced ways of providing educational services to all citizens on equal basis. First it identified theprevailing inequalities, pointing out the respective implications of such inequalities. Then the factors whichmilitate against Nigeria’s declared equalitarian objectives are identified as social, geopolitical, economic andreligious. It has recommended among others solutions, that very radical reform in our educational practices inorder to ensure equal educational opportunity for all Nigerians in the 2020 and beyond.
关键词：Education Dynamic instrument Citizens and limited resources
