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Department Of Social Studies, School Of Arts And Social Sciences Federal College Of Education, Abeokuta (Nigeria)1, National Commission For Colleges Of Education (NCCE), Abuja (Nigeria)2 speaktoa3@yahoo.com
Introduction
One subject that has been of much interest to some stakeholders in education sectors and democratic governments all over the world, is how to achieve the ideal of egalitarianism in societies or, put in another way, how to build egalitarian societies. Many nations of the world are, in principle, aspiring to create egalitarian societies. Nigeria, for instance, despite having been under military rule for a long time, has as one of her five main national objectives the building of a just and egalitarian society (Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1981). The issue of egalitarianism has attracted a number of questions including that of meaning, the possibility of having an egalitarian society and modalities for building one. Egalitarianism can be achieved through equal right in all levels of educational system in Nigeria. Abdalla (2006) quoted by (Adediran and Adeniji, 2012), given the rapid pace or technological change and increasing globalization, education becomes critical in two respects. In view of this, education should be provided for all categories of children, irrespective of their sex, and background (Adediran and Adeniji, 2012).
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Higher Education: Access to this level of education will therefore not only consist of providing a wide variety of programmes personnel and material resource to meet the different interests to the students but will also include various financial incentives to especially those from poor homes in order to encourage them to stay on at school. Equality of educational opportunity requires that financial assistance be provided to such students, if they cannot afford the costs, to study the relevant courses elsewhere.
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