Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach
<p id="p1">An empathetic of the contemporary value of numbers is increasingly gaining ground in higher educational institutions in Nigeria and around the world. These numerical relations to higher education quality parameters, the dive to the market, and the desperate search for students and prestig...
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| description | <p id="p1">An empathetic of the contemporary value of numbers is increasingly gaining ground in higher educational institutions in Nigeria and around the world. These numerical relations to higher education quality parameters, the dive to the market, and the desperate search for students and prestige have gained influence. These desires create an undue obsession, even worship, with perspectives of academic exercises and administration. From the institutions in Nigeria, National Universities’ Commission ratings of universities, academic and non-academic staff yardsticks, students and prospective students’ enrollments and ratings, journal impact factor and citations, the sacred assumptions of numbers and number-targets have become sacrosanct, both as evidence of fairness, prestige, and as a measure of performance, even non-performance, thus requiring academic inquiry. This paper, using ethnographic data and exploring historical accounts, investigates the unexplored mystic dive toward number-data in higher education in Nigeria. The researcher conjectures that the wholesome investment in the cult of numbers generates inconsistent value, is illusory, and inconsequential. The paper advances that the longing for numbers in econometrics, liberal-metrics, and politico-metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria arises from a neoliberal economic process, harsh political and socio-economic realities, and uncertainties, which are invested with the corollaries of inequality and magicalities of the marketplace.</p> |
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| spelling | intech-12374902025-11-27 Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach Ikyer Godwin Aondofa Social Sciences and Humanities <p id="p1">An empathetic of the contemporary value of numbers is increasingly gaining ground in higher educational institutions in Nigeria and around the world. These numerical relations to higher education quality parameters, the dive to the market, and the desperate search for students and prestige have gained influence. These desires create an undue obsession, even worship, with perspectives of academic exercises and administration. From the institutions in Nigeria, National Universities’ Commission ratings of universities, academic and non-academic staff yardsticks, students and prospective students’ enrollments and ratings, journal impact factor and citations, the sacred assumptions of numbers and number-targets have become sacrosanct, both as evidence of fairness, prestige, and as a measure of performance, even non-performance, thus requiring academic inquiry. This paper, using ethnographic data and exploring historical accounts, investigates the unexplored mystic dive toward number-data in higher education in Nigeria. The researcher conjectures that the wholesome investment in the cult of numbers generates inconsistent value, is illusory, and inconsequential. The paper advances that the longing for numbers in econometrics, liberal-metrics, and politico-metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria arises from a neoliberal economic process, harsh political and socio-economic realities, and uncertainties, which are invested with the corollaries of inequality and magicalities of the marketplace.</p> IntechOpen 2025-11-27 Chapter, Part Of Book https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/1237490 doi:10.5772/intechopen.1013452 en ISBN:978-1-83635-761-2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://www.intechopen.com/books/1005172 ; Education Annual Volume 2025 - Education for Global Transformation |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences and Humanities Aondofa, Ikyer Godwin Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach |
| title | Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach |
| title_full | Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach |
| title_fullStr | Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach |
| title_short | Magicalizing Numbers through the Strategic Use of Econometrics, Liberal-Metrics, and Politico-Metrics in Higher Education in Nigeria: A Paradigmatic Approach |
| title_sort | magicalizing numbers through the strategic use of econometrics liberal metrics and politico metrics in higher education in nigeria a paradigmatic approach |
| topic | Social Sciences and Humanities |
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