Evaluation of Crises in the Nigeria’s Education Sector: Implications for the Nigerian State
Journal Title: Educational Research International - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper examines the crises rocking the Nigeria's education sector. It traced the genealogy of the decay from its lower level of education to its higher level: pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary level. The decay has been attributed to factors such as; wrong policy implementation and over politicization of the education sector, funding and corruption, injustice on the right to education, intellectual dishonesty among teachers, non-professionalization of the teaching profession, the pulling down of the social mobility ladder, lack of entrepreneurship education and curriculum review and war on its education sector by boko haram insurgents as well as incessant strikes by teachers. Other factors are; students’ poor attitude to work, depressed reading culture, poor teaching, poor learning and research environment and low value placed on the education of boys and girls in some states. At the end, much adumbration was made towards a tacit evaluation of the crises in the education sector and implications for the Nigerian state. The study lastly recommended the need for conscientious planning and proper management of the sector, strong political will on the part of our leaders, sincerity on the part of stakeholders, stop corruption in the sector and wastages, encourage teachers, provide enough security against insurgents, encourage parents to send their children to school. This is because when people are not educated, they do not bother about social amenities, what matters to them most is food security. An undeveloped mind does not care about what government does with its resources or how corrupt politicians are looting its nation's treasury.
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Charles Iwundu, Dorothy Inko-Tariah
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