Public Private Partnership in University Education Provision in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges And Strategies
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2005
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Nigerian Journal of Educational Administration and Planning
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One of the most important developments in Nigeria's education system within the past two decades is the establishment of an increasing number of private universities. While many people appear worried about the traces of dichotomy (especially in the nature and number of programmes, location of institutions and so on between public and private universities), there has emerged a counter-argument that the reason private universities came into being, in the first place, is to fill the gap created by the structural deficiencies inherent in the existing public universities. For many people, higher educational institutions and, indeed, universities Authorities are seen as role models of innovation and change in general and are expected to assist in individual social mobility and betterment of quality or life. Over the years, the demand for access to university education in Nigeria and Mobia has been increasing at an increasing rate, and in the face of government mability or unwillingness to fund the expansion of supply, the private university education providers have been compelled to come to the forefront. As we are all aware, the university education subsector is just one of the several such sub-sectors where private practitioners have made significant inroads. In fact, the private sector practitioners have made wonderful contributions as engines of growth in such other sectors as health, telecommunications, utilities (electricity and water supply) and security. The inability of government to provide access to quality university education that is in high demand worldwide is not only confined to Nigeria. It has become a global phenomenon that has attracted the private sector to the rescue. The continued expansion of the illegal number of private universities is therefore inevitable. Against this background, this paper examines the historical context and the points of departure in the understanding of public-private partnership. Look at all the factors that influenced public-private partnerships as well as some outstanding issues and the challenges facing public-private
partnership in university education and suggests strategies for working out a conducive atmosphere for the development of high-quality manpower. The paper concludes that what matters most is neither the question of who provides university education nor whether there is any dichotomy. In the nature and number of
programmes offered but meeting the important need of instituting viable Infrastructural building blocks and control measures to ensure that both private and public practitioners co-exist symbiotically and unleash their potentials in a competitive fashion and thereby achieve the overall goals and objectives of university
education in Nigeria.
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alokwu, P. O. (2005). Public–private partnership in university education provision in Nigeria: Issues, challenges and strategies. Nigerian Journal of Educational Administration and Planning, 5(2).