Topic: Nigerian System of Education - page 2. (Read 537 times)

Our education system what pain most us the issue if studying courses that has nothing to add in our environment mostly once it come deals with adated course.

I realized that many of our teachers lack research on the trending global development due to inefficient technology and the funding placed in our education though some too don't have the zeal to research not necessarily on the fact that they lack required tools.

The unproductive nature if our system mostly the education sector us the course of study that has nothing to add as value to those that received it , that's why many are out of school with nothing to add in the society or environment. Our education system is not worth encouraging and is delapidating on daily basis .

We need savage this by avoid studying anything that has no impact on our environment avoid borrow course or studying other people culture that take away our core values and which devaluate of own way of productive.

Very true.  No improvement at all, like wetin we dey learn in our respective area of our discipline is just the introduction and this is just we are just been thought in school,  nothing else to go further about it. And this pattern has been their for very longtime. Because of we are still lacking behind that is why many Nigeria after their first degree dey travel out to get more knowledge about their field for them to know what they are doing , but this is not just the business of our leaders to make things better.

Nevertheless, those issues that you have raised as challenges of the educational system in Nigeria need to be taken seriously by those in authorities.
But I see it differently from your opinions as stated above.
Firstly, lack of self knowledge and disjointed admissions of students. Most students don't know the potentialities of the self that is in them. The very content of what they carry is not known to them. Those of science content aspire to be admitted in to the social sciences and vice versa. This phenomenon is complicated by the very university authorities granding admissions to students into faculties and departments that are not of the interest of the students.
Secondly, most of the lecturers are indeed not lecturers in the making. It is just that there is no available jobs in the country to absorb them that is why they found themselves in the teaching job. In such a situation, proper knowledge could not be impacted to students inside the class room.
So, if the nation Nigeria could get these better, then the major challenges of the educational system are resolved drastically.

Wow, this is an interesting topic to talk about, especially for those of us who attended the Nigerian education system. All three points you mentioned — overpopulation, outdated curricula, and the lack of infrastructure — are valid. It's like a nostalgic moment for me to remember how one lived through the school system as a typical Nigerian.

Firstly, let's talk about overpopulation. Every student who attended a conventional university in Nigeria can easily relate to the issue of overpopulation in schools. Classrooms that should accommodate 30 students end up being filled with 200 students, and halls meant for 200 or 300 students end up accommodating over a thousand. Some students have no seats and end up standing by windows and doors just to attend lectures. The lack of electricity further complicates the situation, creating a stuffy and uncomfortable learning environment. This not only affects students' health but also their ability to focus and learn effectively.

For science students like myself, lectures are sometimes held in laboratories instead of using them for practicals. Labs have been converted into lecture rooms, forcing students to inhale chemicals stored there. Combined classes in labs exacerbate the situation leading to overcrowded and polluted environments. It's disheartening to witness such conditions.

Outdated curriculum is another issue that students can easily relate to. In science classes, I often found myself searching online to update my knowledge because the information in lecture books was outdated. Recent discoveries from the early 2000s were missing from the curriculum leaving us the students with obsolete information.

Also, the lack of new constructions or classroom expansions means there's no reequipping of facilities either. Science students are forced to use outdated equipment like conical flasks, microscopes, and skeletal systems that have been in use for over a decade. The absence of these modern equipment  have affected us in solving real world problems because we lack access to updated tools like electrical microscopes which makes us struggle to keep up with developments in our fields. These kinds of challenges have hindered the quality of education in our universities and calls for the need to be addressed urgently.

Real matter his country education facility needs update. If you go some of this universities you go see say, most of the materials dey outdated, though I no too blame them because, most of this things wey Dem dey teach us na basics of wattin the updated curriculum go teach, so without learning the basic, there is no way we you can understand the other parts easily. Though we know how over populated our school are, especially now wey the population of the country dey increase day by day. And the worse part na besay, many of them go graduate finish, no job. Na from there some youths take say school na scam. Most times person wey be first class sef, sometime na with connection Dem take dey see job, except say one company go just do online recruitment wey no go dey partial, but even as that, some persons go still use that opportunity take seize slot for their family members or person wey dem know.

For real the educational system in Nigeria is not longer favourable for the current globalisation, all I have seen in the university is that the academic curriculum is only preparing it's students for a slavery understanding that is building only people who will come out and start begging for jobs all over the country whereas we not long in the stage where people graduate from school and big companies comes to employ them directly giving them a good begining for a better life. Hence we are only being prepared for such while that era is past already.

It takes only few to start understanding the new shift in the globe and I appreciate the fact that the head of my department in university is so enlighten with the current situation of the world and as a result he keeps reminding us that we should better look for something good to do with our life's than spend all our time in the university because at the time we will be graduating, the world will be in new condition and if we don't adapt to that we might end up being one those youths who complain everyday that there is no job. So what his saying in essence if you're line of career isn't ment for school you should better chase it than waste all the quality time in school because the country's educational system is not favourable to the current situation of the world, one must be productive enough to achieve a good height.

He said in quote - Prof. John mark ~ untill you are prepared, you can never be preferred. I took this upon myself to build a career which I dream of than spend all my time chasing shadows in class.

Most of the students in universities are equally contributing to the corrupt educational system, some are only in school because there parents wants that and I'm not too far from that, a lot of people are only there because they want to make there family proud hence the school does not pass through them they only pass through the school.

Finally, we don't have to keep complaining about it, rather let's look at what exactly can we do about the situation of poor Educational system. For me I will keep encouraging my young people not to fly into the university rather chase their dreams except your area of focus requires this educational studies. Instead of wasting 5 years in school put all that time in your skill and improve on it.

I believe that a few nations have effectively reformed their educational institutions, and we can take inspiration from them. Finland is among the nations that spring to mind. Finland's educational system was having difficulties in the 1990s due to low student performance and a teacher shortage. However, the government made significant investments in education over the following 20 years, concentrating on curriculum reform, teacher preparation, and early childhood education. The outcomes were striking: Finland is currently regarded as having some of the greatest educational systems in the world, with high exam scores and a strong emphasis on equity. And I believe Nigeria would need to take note of these to raise the bar for education.

One thing I observe for this country is that the government no even get any concerns about education.  If you go to our higher institution you go see say many course wey people dey study is just rubbish,  even some professional courses and other relevant course the curriculum is very poor. Government no care about education because then no even get time for the graduate wey dey come out from the school.  No be today wey government abandoned education.

We are in a country has no plans for the their citizens
Our government and political leaders has failed to fulfill the their legal obligations, we can talk about the numerous
Social amenities such good roads , hospital, education, markets, many more but few to mention, non of this has been actually look into it has been for their selfish interest.

You really details out many problem with Nigeria education system that have made many graduate under productive despite the government in ability to create employment opportunity this lack of facilities and good curriculum and qualified teacher and all sort of equipment is most obstacles we faced. But what worry my mind is the level of curruption that have eating deep in the system where they paid called sorting in order to get the certificate they have no knowledge about. Another problem to it is that our system has be build to accept higher qualifications with less productivity without checking the source to which the certificate is awarded. The population problem due to poor policy the society have neglected other sector such as craft, skill enterprenuer etc and centered on education which has lead to over crowding in the education systems with poor management if the population, from the primary, second and tertiary many class have no seat, some department no class merging of department for lecture no practical hall and laboratory, op you really see reality bin the sector and is a good topic to iron.

You've made valid points regarding the issues plaguing the education system in Nigeria, and it's evident that a significant factor behind these challenges is the ineffective governance. The root cause of all the problems you've outlined stems from the poor management by the government. If Nigeria had competent leadership, the issues such as outdated curricula, the shortage of qualified faculty and study equipment, and the prevalence of bribery among lecturers could be effectively addressed.

However, the government's failure to prioritize education has resulted in a vicious cycle of underfunding and neglect. The insufficient budget allocations for education prevent universities from acquiring necessary equipment for studies and hinder efforts to attract and retain qualified educators. Without adequate support from the government, it becomes nearly impossible to implement meaningful reforms that could propel Nigeria's education system forward and empower its citizens.

I agree with all that you mentioned above and that is why Nigeria is one of the countries that are still left behind as far as education is concerned. Education is one of the bedrock of development in every Society a society where there is no proper and adequate education results to iliteracy and idleness and it is said that an idle man is a devils workshop.

Nigeria is one of the developing countries with rapid growing populations in the world yet we badly lack the very basic social amenities you can think of. Anytime you find a situation whereby a country's producing more number of people and those people cannot be converted to human capital, I think that is simply what it means to have overpopulation and that is exactly the same problem that Nigeria facing today.

You have cases of many undergraduates outside that have no job to do, you also have cases of children that are out of school but the government cannot even properly profile them because they are the scattered and the numbers are increasing by the day. We have parents that do not take care of their children and what they know how to do is to cause more problems to the society because they don't know the actual data of the citizen.

Believe me it’s way worst than we can even imagine though I think you missed out on some points I’ll like to add that this sector of government has grown backwards rather than forward since the last military regime,
Most of our educational Infrastructures are dead and buried no one thinks about maintaining them for adequate use they’ve turned our education into a politicking game of chess politicizing education has only drawn it into an already sinking bad government which changes every 8 years from one bad government to another coming up with different promises never kept.

I’d also like to add that poor parenting has also contributed to the failure of the educational system here in Nigeria most parents have adopted very poor parenting skills like indiscipline unlike our days where you go as far as changing your bad results just so you don’t get flogged at home by our parents,
Nowadays children just go to school play come back home and continue playing with no one checking on them, most parents even aid with the distractions of our children by buying them expensive mobile phones and other gadgets that only serve as distractions.

We as a country need to look deep within ourselves and think how to improve the system of education at least start from your home and when you observe things about other kids kindly speak out to their parents don’t say no be pikin Wetin concern me which is very wrong as a society we need to take more responsibility.

Knowledge is the most expensive but yet valuable resources, so you can't afford to see something like that at no expense, getting education is easy and affordable but getting quality education is what can't be accessed by everyone, this isn't just the case in Nigeria alone but every other country around the world, you can't compare the Educational Standard in NYU and that of Oxford University.
You can't compare a public university to a private university, there are Standard Private universities in Nigeria that has complete lab equipments, qualified and serious Lectures and teachers as well as other materials you can't find in the private University but not everyone has access to these facilities because not everyone can afford them.

So please get your statement correct, Nigeria has all it takes, but the society favours the rich more than the poor and so does the Educational system. It's true that the government has failed us but we on the other end have a part to play and we should play our cards well rather blaming and complaining unnecessarily when we know fully well that our complains wouldn't amount to anything.

You did a great job in making this point but you didn't discuss the root of the problems. See, Nigeria is not the first country to have over population, take a look at the population of China and India, they are many times bigger than Nigeria but have way better educational system than Nigeria and how did they achieve this? It's because they budget huge amount of money in their education than we do in Nigeria.

The money that is been spent on Fuel subsidy is 2 times bigger than the amount that is been spent on education and if there is one thing I love about this government, it is the subsidy that was harshly remove but what I don't understand is where is that money going to, not in our health care nor in any other budgeting scheme. Should we assume that this is also a scam already.


Corruption and low budget on our educational system is what kills the education in this country but then again, the main problem lies on the money. Lecturers are not well paid, so they have to do other means to get extra money from student. Just imagine the pay check of a professor in 2011 is the same thing they are been paid till today, they don't get paid well to maintain good educational system.

Our Nigeria education is nothing to write home about, looking from the primary to secondary sector first is a mess the government has fail to provide adequate facility for learning.even providing chairs and table is very poor,you see student sitting on the floor to learn.you can not have a good government school to put your child cause is waist of time.we thank God for private individuals that have private school to make education better.na the poor dey suffer cause they don't have money to pay for those private school.but if the government makes the government school better for learning it will help the system.

OP, you gave mentioned many things here that are negatively affecting Nigeria educational system, though our lectures and teachers starting from kindergarten to the tertiary institutions are not well trained at the same time they are not properly paid, in the aspect of payment, most of them don't deserve the payment because they have nothing to offer, I blame this on government and the people.

As a matter of fact, Nigerian educational curriculum is much more outdated and whose fault is it, does it mean that our so called called professors in different institutions doesn't know what is obtainable and applicable, why is that is only in this part of the world we complain of abnormalities in this sector, during the military rule, our educational system was not porous as it is now may be strict instruction that may have consequences if not adhered to, let's not also forget that educational funding in Nigeria is very poor, government at all level should take this as major priority, supervise the activities of the lecturers and the student with strict sanctions, with this we can get somethings right gradually.   

Nigeria system of education is a mess unlike before starting from nursery to secondary one will see that there is discipline but now even the teachers are unserious, now coming to our high institution that one is the worst most of the  laboratory equipments are not working, students that are supposed to do practical after learning the theory you see that there is nothing in the laboratory resulting to poor knowledge of students who found them self in such department or institution and also increasing the fee of students trying to make this more difficult for knowing how the country system is but if we have a better governance I believe the Nigeria system of education will be better again.

Sincerely speaking our government is a failure, and despite our youth are trying their best to make sure the economy is good, but the politicians are bent on making things difficult for the masses. The problem of the country is beyond university. Maybe you are just noticing it now you are in school. It has been like that for long way back, but it is increasing by the day. But nevertheless talking about the failure of the economy will not solve any problem. One thing you should know is that Nigeria system of governance is like a virus that has no cure. Maybe scientist is still mixing the antidote of the virus that has affected us. But as we are waiting for the antidote please do invest the amount you can afford to accumulate. Because you might cry out blood when the economy grow worst than this, and you also didn't invest on Bitcoin when it was dip. Now is you time to change your mindset and make a change in your life. I have cancelled Nigeria politics and there activities a long time ago. Since I was introduced to this Bitcoin forum, I don't even know if am from Nigeria again. I just feel like my body is in Nigeria but my spirit is in UK. Just zero your mind, more opportunities to make money online has been proven. only for you to bring your mind and work smart and forget about Nigeria problem.

FOTRAN...This person na UNIPORT student  . I get your point but it is what it is. but i don't think it should be a problem for you now... The internet is always there for you to update and make yourself better. Am tired of complaining this days so i try to put in work.