Word: ibadan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps has designated the University to train 45 Corps candidates this summer in part of a cooperative program between Harvard and University College at Ibadan, Nigeria...
...week tour of Nigeria to make preliminary arrangements for the cooperative program. Monro conferred with educational officials and visited schools in western Nigeria, the area to which Harvard trainees will be assigned. After Harvard trains the young volunteers, the Harvard trains the young volunteers, the University College at Ibadan will complete the orientation and practice teaching curriculum...
...program for 45 students will cost an estimated $118,000--supplied by the Peace Corps and administered at Ibadan will supports part of the program...
...African standards, Nigeria is already the best-schooled new nation, as well as the most populous (40 million). In 1945 it had virtually no schooling; now it has 3,100,000 primary-school students. The Western Region's University College at Ibadan, opened in 1948 as an affiliate of the University of London, is black Africa's biggest college (1,100 students). A U.S. team from Michigan State University has just opened Nigeria's second major campus, the Eastern Region's University of Nigeria (300 students...
...education. The lucky student who passes entrance exams, happy in the knowledge that he can never again be called "boy," considers himself part of an anointed elite. On graduation, he feels that he can preserve his special status only by entering the civil service. Until lately, upon landing at Ibadan's lavish campus, the undergraduate has hardly had to lift a finger. Room servants tended his every need. When Ibadan recently put in a cafeteria, outraged students went on strike...