Abstract:
Whitehead (1967:4) defines the term “Education is t
he acquisition of the art
of the utilization of knowledge.” The universities
are those institutions that
teach learners the art of the utilization of knowle
dge. For this to be achieved,
goals and objectives are set in such a way that at
a certain time 3 or 4 years,
an individual is said to acquire the basic art at u
ndergraduate level. If still
interested, the individual can continue to higher l
evels. This basic level and
other levels above it are referred as higher educa
tion. In this paper, the term
university will be used to refer higher education.
The art of the teaching and learning process requir
es the appropriate
media to communicate the curriculum content in this
paper, the term
communication simply refers to the art of sending o
r receiving messages.
Development of any nations depends on the participa
tion of its
human resources. This need well qualified personnel
to handle all matters
pertaining to her specific needs. Education in deve
loping countries has
expanded tremendously from few secondary schools at
independence to the
vast numbers that we have today. Most of the Africa
n countries had either
one or two universities at independence or none at
all. However, this trend
has changed and the countries can be congratulated
for making sure that their
people/citizens have access to higher education