Papers by babatunde oyedeji
Admission is a necessary foundation building for joining a university institution for study or fo... more Admission is a necessary foundation building for joining a university institution for study or for scholarship. It is the climax to a string of academic activity starting from the cradle (of applicants) onto the matriculation watershed. Universities therefore take the task of admission of Students into their portals seriously insisting that as part of its basic academic freedom, the University Senate should provide and protect policies and processes for admission. Phillip G Altback described the central elements of academic life as ‘….. the admission of students, the curriculum, the criteria for the award of degrees, the selection of new members of the professoriate, and the basic direction of the academic work of the institution ’ 1. This paper seeks to dissect the background and circumstances affecting and afflicting the admission process and its pivotal role in the business of tertiary education in Nigeria. It will attempt to draw connections as between admissions and variables s...
Continental J. Arts and Humanities, 2012
This paper examines the trend towards intensified centralization and autocracy of decision-making... more This paper examines the trend towards intensified centralization and autocracy of decision-making in the Nigerian university system. It scrutinizes the plethora of management organs designed as and employed by managers of the universities. The question is what management concept is applicable to Nigerian universities? Is a uniform concept applicable to all universities? What of the overarching power of the Federal Government which was frequently military in the past and autocratic in its foundation? Is it likely that concepts of freedom in decision-making for universities using decentralization, delegation, deregulation, debureaucratisation, or independence would best suit that Nigerian organization as against an autocratic strong-arm type model? It is imperative to draw a linkage between developments in the federal democratic polity of Nigeria and happenings inside the Nigerian university system and to see the latter as merely a product of the Nigerian ecology. But should the University organization merely mirror its society or blaze-trail into creative intellectual groundbreaking?
Modern Applied Science, Oct 25, 2017
Tribalism is coined from 'tribes', an alternative word for ethnic or linguistic groups or in some... more Tribalism is coined from 'tribes', an alternative word for ethnic or linguistic groups or in some countries 'nation' or 'nationality'. Tribes supply a lot of Nigeria's diversity providing traditional costumes, dress, music, dancing, indigenous language, arts, folklore, religion, all of which can constitute an asset to a people. It is naturally regarded as a small group, a human social organization defined by 'traditions of common descent' having temporary or permanent political integration above the family level with a shared language, culture or ideology. Encyclopedia Britannica asserts that tribe members 'share a tribe name in a contiguous territory, and engage in joint endeavours such as trade, agriculture, house construction, warfare, economic and business activities and warfare. They often stay in small cluster-communities which can grow into large communities and even a nation. This paper attempts to critically examine the multiple play-outs of Nigeria's many tribes and nationalities during and after colonialism, the intricate connection between tribalism and politics, leadership and the evolution of the Nigerian polity, the grievous harm as well as advantages of tribalism to Nigeria's evolution. The tribe is always a major factor in the country and in its people. It ends with specific prognosis and a few recommendations.
Modern Applied Science
Despite the plethora of findings and feelings surrounding federalism and the acerbity of the cyni... more Despite the plethora of findings and feelings surrounding federalism and the acerbity of the cynical discomfort at the negative nuances about the ideology, the federal system has produced stable and settled societies in Canada, Australia, the United States of America, India, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Brazil, Malaysia and Mexico. Nevertheless, the frequent conclusion is its inherent attraction to ‘inevitability of instability’ generally in Africa and specifically in Nigeria. This typology seems to apply to developing countries more than others, in any case, at least nineteen countries containing some 40% of the world’s population. This puts and acute pressure on Nigeria, the surviving big federal country in Africa. It can be asked, did the British leave meaningful alternatives to federalism whilst ruling Nigeria between 1900 and 1914 and 1960? Can’t it not be deduced that federalism was indeed a natural product of decisions and phenomena like the Indirect Rule, the political...
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