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Nigeria: The Option of Open University in Nigeria
That was the remark of President Olusegun Obasanjo at his matriculation recently as a new student of National Open University of Nigeria. The bold step taken by the president demonstrated that no one may be too old, too powerful or extremely engaged to pursue academic knowledge. His action further promotes the importance of the new policy of open university system of education in Nigeria.
The National Policy on Education of 1981 described education as the most important instrument of change in our society. It further stated that Any fundamental change in the intellectual and social outlook of any society has to be preceded by an educational revolution. It also provides that the federal government should make life-long education as the basis for the nations education policy and that at any stage of educational process after primary, an individual will be able to choose between continuing the fulltime studies, combining work with studies or deciding to embark on full employment without excluding the prospect of resuming studies later on.
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