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Aderinoye, R. A.; Ojokheta, K. O.; Olojede, A. A. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
The establishment of the Nigerian National Commission for Nomadic Education in 1989 created wider opportunities for an estimated 9.3 million nomads living in Nigeria to acquire literacy skills. This commission was struck to address low literacy rates among pastoral nomads and migrant fishermen, which put literacy rates at 0.28 percent and 20…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Children, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Urwick, James – Comparative Education Review, 1983
Examination of Nigerian political behavior surrounding expansion of secondary education in a northern state and emergence of national universal primary education reveals that calculations of political advantage dominated policy choices and that professional planning issues were ignored. As part of a wider pattern, such political behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Planning
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Akande, Bolanle E. – Comparative Education, 1987
Examines the issue of equality of opportunity and social mobility in terms of differences between urban and rural young people in South-Western Nigeria, focusing particularly on those handicaps associated with female disadvantage. Reports results of interviews with 359 rural and urban female secondary school students. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Adolescents, Comparative Education
TAFE National Centre for Research and Development, Payneham (Australia). – 1989
The conference recorded in this document covered a wide variety of themes and consisted of keynote addresses, research presentations, and workshops. The following workshop presentations are included: "Vocational Education in a Developing Country" (Theron); "From the Technical to the Critical: A New Agenda for Vocational Education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Educators, Critical Thinking, Developing Nations