This study investigated the expansion of the tertiary education sub-sector and how it could be made developmentally oriented to foster economic growth. The author gathered relevant data by means of personal observation, archival studies and interviews with government officials, academic staff, private industry management, students, as well as, school administrators at private institutions. The study revealed that science and technology education is limited by the lack of resources which prevents most students wishing to pursue these courses from doing so. Ayisi asserts that this impedes...

Former New York State Commissioner of Education Sobol takes us on a compelling journey beginning in his childhood, continuing with his life as a teacher and leader in schools, Commissioner of Education in New York and professor at Columbia University. Using language close to poetry, Sobol writes of his early years, a blend of family warmth and threats from the 1930's outside world. He rides a trolley car to Boston Latin School, becomes organist in his church community, grows and expands during his life as a commuter student at Harvard and his service in Korea. With humor and candor, he shares...