Educational futures and increase in female enrolment in private universities in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examines the growing trend of demographic changes in the admission process in the educational sector in Nigeria. It is an analysis of the admission trend in privately owned Universities, using Fountain University, Osogbo as a case study. It was discovered that the number of female enrolment is on the rise. This increased interest in educational and professional training of the girl child in higher institutions of learning bespoke a silent revolution that will impact the structure and coloration of the labour market and the working class in the nearest future. Using secondary data from the archives of the University, supplemented with interview of selected students, it was discovered that the bulk of this admission offered to the feminine gender was by no means moderated to favour them as some of these female candidates have been discovered to out-perform their male counterparts in virtually all subjects areas taught.