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International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 6(6), pp. 123-128, December, 2018

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2018.057

 

Review paper

 

The Place of Higher Education in the Attainment of Sustainable Development in Nigeria

 

1WADA Richard Sylvester, 2BITRUS Ishaya and 3YOHANNA Lucky Ibrahim

 

1Department of English Education, Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

E-mail:wadarichard@mail.com

2Department of English Education, Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

E-mail:Ishayabitrus710@yahoo.com

3Department of English Language Education, College of Continuing Education, Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. E-mail: luckybrahim@gmail.com

 

Accepted 14 November 2018

Abstract

 

Higher Education institutions in Nigeria are the supposed hub for sustainable development. Development is termed to be multi-faceted, which can be in areas such as technological development, structural development and human resource and socio-economic development. In Nigeria the quest for such a sustainable development has led to the establishment and to an extent the proliferation of federal, states and privately owned universities across the Nigerian nation. Higher education is uniquely placed to play the leading role in the attainment of these sustainable developments. This paper will however argue that in Nigeria certain factors such as politics, social and cultural affiliations and religious bigotry has to a larger extent hampered the attainment of the expected sustainable development attainable from the acquisition of higher education. The paper maintains that it requires going beyond the integration of key ideas in the existing curricular, the commissioning of new sustainable building or supporting the sustainability action projects which often occur at the fringes of the institutions. Instead, the sustainability journey engages Universities and Colleges in a quest for interdisciplinary, participatory pedagogies, research and the opening of institutions boundaries in its entity so that the notion of sustainable communities is extended beyond university and college walls.

   

Keywords: Sustainable development, Catalyst, Higher education, Sustainability, Political Jingoism, and Religious Bigotry


 

Cite This Article As:  WADA, R.S., BITRUS, I., YOHANNA, L.I. (2018). The Place of Higher Education in the Attainment of Sustainable Development in Nigeria. Inter.  J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 6(6): 123-128

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