The Dilemma of Educational Expansion in Developing Countries: a case study of Nigeria

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This article focuses on the major problems arising from the launching of the Universal Primary Education #opUPE#cp scheme in Nigeria. It sketches through the background to the present trends and sees the programme as a leap‐frog to a stage that would naturally come subsequently in the course of educational development. Because such a move, though commendable in certain respects, can nevertheless have adverse repercussions both on the quality of education and on socio‐economic development in general, the author advises caution on the part of developing countries if they are to realise those worthwhile objectives for which they make their usually strenuous efforts to combat ignorance and illiteracy. Much is seen to be dependent on the availability of qualified teachers and basic infra‐structural facilities for effective teaching.

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