A CRITIQUE OF LAWS GOVERNING UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA
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2017
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Adekile, O.M
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Nigeria scores low in education being described as a country with education without learning at the launching of ‘Education for All’ and scoring poorly in the 2017 Global Human Development Report with a position of 11 out of 130. Against this backdrop, and coupled with the continuous debate on university autonomy, restricting and funding, among others, the paper appraised the laws governing universities in Nigeria and their values on the core issues of university education, in particular institutional autonomy and academic freedom. The extant laws establishing some public universities were critiqued to wit, the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act No. 11 1993 as amended in 2003 (Autonomy Act) and 2012 respectively, the Education (National Minimum Standards) (Establishment) Act 2004 as well as the JAMB Act 1989. It finds that the extant legal framework has promoted undue interference in University autonomy with dire consequences on the University model in Nigeria. The overbearing role of the NUC, the government policy of tuition free university education among others were evaluated. It was concluded that these laws need to be revisited.
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Universities, laws, Education. Autonomy, Nigeria