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POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES MUTUALLY REINFORCING MEDIOCRITY IN CROSS RIVER STATE TERTIARY EDUCATION

*John Atelwhobel Undie And Nwosu Nneka .V

^*Educational Foundations Abubakar Tafawa Balawa University,Bauchi,Nigeria

²Educational Foundations,University of Jos

 Corresponding authors email:jaundie4u@yahoo.com

Accepted 29 August 2014

The adage that all animals are equal but some are more equal than the other has significance to this discussion on inequalities and allocation of values in higher education system in Cross River State of Nigeria. In the past and even more recently, occupants of departmental headship, faculty Deanship, Institute Directorship etc appears characterize by political undertones .Available evidence showed that holding of such offices is essentially determine by the choice of super ordinates rather than merits. This phenomenon contradicts the purpose for which autonomy and academic freedom was granted higher education systems. Under this circumstances the search for truth and knowledge suffers even in knowledge society, due to the over bearing influence and politicking of chief executives of higher institute of learning in cress river state. The situation is worse off when ethno-racial, social geographic origin becomes factors of consideration for appointive officers in higher institutions of learning this background in effect contradicts the very essence of the first goal o Nigeria National Policy on Education which is intended to inculcate National consciousness and unity amongst Nigeria citizens.

This paper therefore consider the following as variables for the study

A. The activities of admissions committees

B. Appointment of Heads of Departments ,(elections of Deans of Faculties and Director of institutes.

C Activities of Anti-corruption agencies

D Appointments and promotion of staff.

A sample of 250 academic staff where were drawn as the sample size from the total population of 800. Lecturers in the three institutions of higher learning in the state through stratified random sampling technique. The institutions were used as strata

The politics of education and social inequalities questionnaire (PESIQ), was validated and pretested for reliability and the reliability coefficient of 65 was derived. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the independent t-test analysis was used to test the null hypothesis. The result of the study showed that there is no significant difference between colleges of education and universities in Cross River State of Nigeria in terms of; the activities of admission committees, the politics of appointments of heads of Department and elections of Deans of faculties, the nature of activities of anticorruption as well as the appointments and promotions of staff. It was recommended that for inequalities to be eliminated then the system of should play down on politics, so that it will not be allowed to interfere with official decisions. Everybody should be given his or her own dues amongst others.

Keywords:Education,Tertiary institute and Social Inequality

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