By Abdullahi Sani
Nigerians are no longer happy with the education system, we are indeed suffering. We plead the new government to play a vital role in the development of the education sector.
Years upon years, the Academic Staff Union of Universities also known as ASUU had been fighting and struggling for the public universities across Nigeria, demands were being proposed but only few were accepted and executed, some were accepted but not executed. The unexecuted tasks have made our universities to begin to raise their school fees and it has been affecting thousands of students.
Education is indeed the key to victory that will build the nation, but it is the sector that loses support from the government, it is the sector that the citizens love but not well established.
By The End of 2022, some public universities begin to multiply their school fee which is truly affecting thousands of students across the nation, some have no option but to drop out. The majority of the public universities’ students are average while some students are unimaginably poor. Some students have to manage the little they got from their parents but still it will never satisfy them.
The United Nation of Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization also known as UNESCO sets a benchmark percentage funding for the education sector in national budgets at 26 per cent. Some countries across the globe accepted and executed the policy while others like Nigeria neither accept nor execute it.
The major problems with our universities: The higher institutions environment is not safe for students and lectures. Inadequate funding, corruption, inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of academic staff, Strike actions, Brain-drain, poor research, weak administrators and insecurity.
Nigerians are no longer happy with the education system, we are indeed suffering. We plead the new government to play a vital role in the development of the education sector.
May Nigeria be great!
Abdullahi Sani is a Public Affairs Analyst.
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