Foreign Aid and Tertiary Education Development in Nigeria

Abstract

 Purpose: This paper examined the impact of foreign aid on tertiary education development in Nigeria.

Method: The paper is a position that used secondary data. The secondary data used in the paper were collected from government documents, print resources and online publication. Literature were reduced to scope of the paper via the used of content analysis.

Findings: The paper showed that foreign aid has contributed to the development of tertiary education in Nigeria in the areas of financial aids, infrastructure facilities development, staff training, programme development and research development.

Recommendations: Government should continue to promote a health international diplomacy with different countries to increase more foreign aid into the country. Federal government should ensure financial aids are well used on the programmes they were made for. Federal and state government should increase funding of tertiary institutions to complete those aids from the international institutions.