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A Failed Nigeria Educational System




BY AYOOLA OLAITAN

What has become a serious source of worry to many Nigerians is the failed educational system. When the topic a failed educational system comes where do one start from or how do one respond to such statement?

Is it the deteriorating system, where lecturers can’t justify what they are paid for or how students are taught what is not relevant in a real situation and are always bombarded with assignments that they are yet to be taught in class.  Or the absurd 6-3-3-4 system of education, whereas in other countries they are embracing the new form education where you can round up your higher education in two years or less instead of the unnecessary elongated four years minimum course of study.


It is so unfortunate, a situation where the management of an institution fail to employ more hands or qualified lecturers, those employed are no longer teaching based on their specialty or specialized field of study thereby turning an higher institution of learning into a secondary school, oh! I remember a lecturer few months ago saying name a course I can’t teach you in this department, one would wonder if that is how wide such lecturer is vast in knowledge. The education system as failed even with the lack of proper teaching infrastructure.

Regrettably, the system as also produced unemployable graduate, like one of lecturer will say “there are jobs out there but there are no skilled graduate to take up the jobs”. I remember a final year student of Mass Communication who cannot cast a headline not to talk of writing a publishable news story. Where do we begin from now?     

Another worrisome aspect of this failed system is the dichotomy between the University and Polytechnic in the labour market. The stereotype created around attending such institutions and the kind of qualification awarded as indeed affected the educational system. Who is then to be blame?

 After five years in the Polytechnic and one cannot get a reasonable pay simply because of the kind of school one attended. After my second year in school my then roommate was fortunate to have secured a place for his Internship Training (IT), after few weeks of work he realized the discrimination between him and those who are from the University for Same training despite him been better on the field. He got discouraged, completed the training and had to enroll for a University program after spending three years in the polytechnic.

Is the solution now for government to allow for equality in qualification or are they going to allow this dichotomy to totally collapse the standard of our education system?  Is there really a standard?
Is opting for a better quality education thereby travelling overseas a better option, now what then become of those who cannot afford to school abroad?


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