Implications And Challenges Of Nigerian Universities As Learning Organizations

Abstract

University education as a learning organization started in Europe in the eleventh century, and one of thefirst universities in Africa was the one in Timbuktu. Fafunwa (1971) has indicated that the 1945 reportsof the Commission on Higher Education in the colonies have shown that since the world wars,Nigerians have always demonstrated an insuppressible desire for higher education because it wasseen as an important weapon against the colonial masters in the quest for emancipation and nationaldevelopment. As early as 1944 therefore, there were already about 10 Nigerians who were studying inSierra Leone at the Fourah Bay College of the University of Durham, about the same time educationalhistorians have reported that there were as many as 150 Nigerians studying for various first degrees inthe United Kingdom.