Objectives and Factors Involved in Attaining Quality in Higher Education

Abstract

Even among the most eminent educators, the significance of higher education to the life of our nation is almost never acknowledged. Some people go so far as to claim that higher education institutions are nothing more than a waste of money and a diversion of resources that could be put to better use in expanding access to primary education across the nation. They argue that instead of the pyramidal structure that we should have built up, consisting of a broad base of elementary education supporting a smaller apex of higher education, we have actually built up a top-heavy structure where a plethora of colleges and universities has grown up within a vast ocean of illiteracy and ignorance. This is in contrast to the pyramidal structure that we should have built up.