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ERIC ED103317: The School System and the Social Development of Nigeria.

The goal of the Nigerian school system in the context of national integration, modernization, and stability is social equalitarianism and welfare. Also, historically, Nigerian schools have been competitive and Western because of the colonial regime and missionary schools. The pattern remains in independent Nigeria with English literacy and Western education the means for upward social mobility. In recognition of this social order Universal Primary Education (UPE) was instituted in 1957. The system, quickly overburdened, produced greater social differentiation and unemployed literates and then …