Nigeria educational system

 Nigeria educational system   .For Nigeria to join the emerging global powers and develop its economy, it must look at her educational system. The country must do a critical assessment of the Nigeria educational system, looking at the problems, and trying to find a solution. The following must be done so as to achieve a sustainable, productive and competitive work force.

The problem with Nigeria  educational system is that it is a product of the Nigerian system. We should look at it from the pervasive corruption in the land, erosion of our value system, lack of good governance, bad policy implementation and the over importance placed on certificates. These and some others factors have made the Nigeria  educational system  not only weak but also dangerous.

We should not treat education as if it is different from every other sector .It is the same environment were most of the basic things are not working the way it should be. We have adopted the same principle and culture in every thing we do. Almost all the stakeholders in Nigeria  educational system have a share of the blame, the government, the teachers, the administrators, the students and the society.

We are in a society that no longer respects merit and hard work; but easy assess and admiration to unaccounted wealth, culture of lawlessness and faulty value system. Students and other stakeholders adopt short measures towards addressing the problems. This can be seen in the rampant examination malpractice, recruitment of unqualified teachers, inadequate funding and where funding is available outright embezzlement and corruption.

The other stakeholders are equally guilty. The teachers and the school administrators try as much as possible to survive from the difficult economics environment there by compromising the standards. Added to this is that most of them are not qualified or trained to be educators and teachers. They found their way to the classrooms by accident.  A society that do not question the process; but accepts the product no matter how ethical wrong or bad they appear.  Examination malpractices take place under such environment. We place so much emphasis on certificate as against moral, skills, values and knowledge. 

Our leaders it seems may not be ready to make tangible contribution to improve the Nigeria  educational system This is because their wards are scattered in virtually all the universities around the globe in  UK,US,Canada,Austrialia,New Zealand,South Aftrica,UAE,Ghana,Malasia and other countries.

The rate of failure of the candidates in the Nigeria  educational system is a reflection of not only the students, their teachers, the government and the parents but also the society. 

The students have neglected reading and preparation for examinations instead they depend on examination malpractice.

It is also criminal that we fail to observe or implement any known recommendation by the international bodies as regards funding. We should know that they are acceptable standards in terms of investment in the Nigeria  educational system and establish an acceptable mechanism towards the monitoring and standardisation of the whole system. We may be breading some sets of dangerous individuals that may turn out to be a threat in the near future. An ill-educated individual will make our society unsafe. We should do a through analysis towards identifying the problem that have engulfed Nigeria  educational system and find a lasting solution towards redeeming the hope of our country.

We need to seriously look at our value system and some of the things the society promote knowingly and unknowingly like materialism, pervasive corruption in all segment of the society including family units. The type of individuals we see as models and our cultural orientation. Added to this is the reliance on other means of passing exams and achieving success without the good old virtue of hard work.

It is becoming increasingly noticeable that the informal sector is the engine room of economic development and emancipation. The parents and the society should also find a way of encouraging students to cultivate a reading culture and the establishment of community base libraries. In addition to training centres to cater for the population, it also needs to encourage the private sectors to invest in research and development. Let us try to get the foundation right and provide an enabling environment for education to thrive and help the society.

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