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Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far

Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far

Olutoyin Mejiuni
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522531531|ISBN10: 152253153X|EISBN13: 9781522531548
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3153-1.ch064
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Mejiuni, Olutoyin. "Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far." Business Education and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1260-1275. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3153-1.ch064

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Mejiuni, O. (2018). Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Business Education and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1260-1275). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3153-1.ch064

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Mejiuni, Olutoyin. "Working-Walking Alone and With Others: Working-Walking Fast and Far." In Business Education and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1260-1275. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3153-1.ch064

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Abstract

In this chapter, the author shall argue, with materials sourced through desk work, that although formal educational institutions, business and industries, multi-lateral agencies, religious institutions, and a handful of educational non-profits provide and support education and training for the workforce of the future in Nigeria, the tension created by the conflicting frameworks that undergird the provision of, and support for, education by the parties depresses funding for tertiary education, especially in times of economic crises. Inadequate funding of public education in general, and tertiary education in particular, is not, therefore, just a fall out of economic crises; it is also a result of the tension between stakeholders who hold the view that education is a social service, those who hold the view that education is an investment in human capital, and those who believe that education straddles the two frameworks. The author makes the point that the problems associated with inadequate funding of university education are aggravated by the overbearing influence of the National Universities Commission (NUC) in the administration of universities, resulting in low synergy of the output of the formal education system with the needs of business and industries and the requirements of community transformation.

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