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Proliferation of illegal tertiary institutions of learning in Nigeria : implications for quality education, self-reliance, economic growth and development

This paper examined the proliferation of illegal tertiary institutions of learning in Nigeria. These institutions are termed illegal because their establishment and operation are without legal authorization. They exist without permission from the higher education regulatory bodies such as National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and the National Board of Technical Education (NBTE). The characteristics of some of these illegal institutions identified in this paper included among others poor, obsolete and inadequate infrastructure, inadequate and inexperienced academic staff, high tuition fees and other forms of exploitation of students as well as lack of control, monitoring and discipline. The implication of these factors on quality education, self-reliance and national growth and development was examined in this write up. Recommendations such as closing down of such illegal institutions, blacklisting the institutions if they operate in defiance, greater awareness campaign against patronage and expansion of accredited federal, states and privately owned tertiary institutions of learning among others were put forward.