The export of the UGC idea to Africa

✍ Scribed by Rowland Eustace

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 901 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00128568

✦ Synopsis

The effects of British methods of allocation of resources to the colonial universities on the methods used by the successor states are discussed mainly in relation to Ghana and Nigeria. The discussion is in terms of the intentions and beliefs the national Governments have announced over the last two or three decades. The tension between the beliefs in institutional autonomy and in staff self-government; and the need for national Governments to direct higher education to national needs is discussed in the light of published comment, mainly from local sources, and personal communications. The West African allocative machineries have gone further down the road now being cautiously taken by the British University Grants Committee (UGC); but the conclusion is that although these machineries are not dissimilar in important respects from the British UGC, they are very much local responses to local requirements.