Nigerian Educational System: Problems and Way Forward
Keywords:
Administration, Education, Teachers, System, ProblemsAbstract
The Nigerian educational system is plagued with many problems. This presentation discusses the various problems facing the educational system in Nigeria in view of solving them. The presentation depends on primary, secondary data sourced from print and online publication. Inadequate funding, inadequate professional teachers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, poor supervision, corruption, weak administrators, poor quality education, overcrowding, brain-drain and insecurity problem were identified as the problems facing the educational system in Nigeria. To solve these problems, the following were suggested: implementation of the UNESCO 26% of recommendation for education annual budget, employ more professional teachers, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, effective supervision of education, fight and prevent corruption practices in the ministry of education, ensure the appointment of qualified educational administrators and managers as the heads of various educational institutions, ensure motivation for teachers, and the government should provide adequate security in all educational institutions. The safe school initiative should be implement across all the country.
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4. Ajape T, S; Ogunode N, J; Jegede, D (2020). University Education in Nigeria: Challenges and Way Forward. Journal Sinestesia, Vol. 10, No. 2 P:95-105
5. Godwin C. A (2018). Educational corruption in tertiary institutions in nigeria: implications for global peace, development and progress in the 21st century. IMT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES VOL. 2 NO. 1
6. Ige A, M (2013). Provision of secondary education in Nigeria: Challenges and way forward.Journal of African Studies and Development Vol. 5(1), pp. 1-9.
7. Nakpodia, E. D. (2011). Early childhood education: Its policy formulation and implementation in Nigerian educational system. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 5(3), 159-163. Retrieved from http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1381824650_Nakpodia.pdf
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13. Ogunode, N. J; & Adamu, D. G. (2021). Shortage of Academic Staff in the Higher Institution of Learning in Nigeria. American Journal of Economics and Business Management, 4(2), p 52-67
14. Ogunode, J. N. (2020). Administration of Primary School Education in Nigeria: Challenges and the Ways forward. Intercathedra 4(45), 197–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.17306/J.INTERCATHEDRA.2020.00108
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2021-08-14
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Jacob, O. N. ., & Josiah, H. F. . (2021). Nigerian Educational System: Problems and Way Forward. Central Asian Journal of Social Sciences and History, 2(8), 23–33. Retrieved from https://www.cajssh.casjournal.org/index.php/CAJSSH/article/view/143
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