Abstract
This chapter gives a balanced appraisal of Protestant Education in Nigeria. It addresses the challenges faced by Nigerian educators in general and how Protestant churches are seeking to go about addressing these issues. This chapter focuses on the successes, including growth, of Protestant education. Nevertheless, the challenges that Protestant educators face are addressed as well, including the corruption in Nigeria, the limited financial resources, and the fact that Nigeria is a religiously divided land.
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Government returned the schools to missions partly because of agitation on the part of the latter for their return and partly because of the burden of funding the institutions.
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The SDA church was one of the first missions to have institutions at every level – primary, secondary, tertiary, and health institutions.
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The college was turning out more teachers than there was vacancy to absorb them.
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Nwosu, C.C., Adesegun, A.A. (2012). Protestant Missionary Education in Nigeria. In: Jeynes, W., Robinson, D. (eds) International Handbook of Protestant Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2387-0_15
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