ULQUIORRA: Exactly my brother. When I tell people that I started reading the newspapers in primary 1, they just laugh it off but its true.

Number_One: The only problem with education in Nigeria is that students are not allowed to think.

The lecturers expect you to vomit their notes word for word.
The purpose of education is to make students think and improve on what they are thought. Improve society. University is meant for reseach not to copy and paste.

How can one think when the only way to pass is to photocopy lecture notes back to the lecturer?
Any attempt to question a lecturer on new findings in his area (cos most of them use the same lecture notes of 10 years ago) will only lead to being seen as an enemy and you will most likely fail the course.

This inability to think is what employers complain about. 1st class, 2-1 student who cannot deliver in the field.
Engineers who cannot fix anything. Doctors who experiment with patients, try this drug or that.

While graduates complain there are NO JOBS, businesses complain there are NO APPLICANTS.

Since Nigeria has enough problems, I dont like to discuss problems alone but profer solutions also.

SOLUTION
1) Copy and paste to pass exams and get the best grade you can.
2) Read more than you are taught. God bless the internet... Use it.
3) Learn a skill because that is the only way to make a living. People pay for service. They pay better for good service.
There are many. Event management, Software developer, Public speaker, Hair dressing... The list is endless. Just pick one.
4) When you look for that dream job and it doesnt come in 2 years (1 year NYSC + 1 post NYSC). Fall back on your skill and be the best you can.

Bottomline, if you cant get a job, make one.

fatwallet: Nigerians need their colonial superior masters (the whites) to come back and whoop their Nigger Asses for not passing the test.walking around with big potbelly and wearing clown hats doing nothing.
unless all nigerians magically turn to white like michael jackson , have a brain transplant surgery,change the climate of Nigeria or get colonized and greatly influenced by whites ,Nigeria is truly doomed.
have you ever seen a black first world country? verily i say to you that if you transfer all whites to Nigeria and transfer nigerians to America ,Americans would be applying for Nigerian Visa.they would go give birth in Nigeria.
the tiny islands of Haiti,Jamaica, s.t Lucia etc. have electricity interruptions like Nigeria yet Canada and U.S are as big as africa and there's electricity in even the most remote countryside.
the beautiful resorts in caribbean are built by whites and thats to show you what the entire island would have looked like.the bauxite is mined by whites. U.S virgin Islands in the same caribean is developed.
Iceland is cold barren island turned into paradise yet jamaica Is a tropical shithole. Kingston jamaica is the murder capital of the world,untold poverty.
you think Arabs actually built Dubai? who do you think influenced and helped develop japan,hong kong ,,singapore,malaysia,johannesburg etc.
without a white touch and influence, Nigeria is doomed.
Knowledge is Light,Ignorance is Darkness . sad but true.

fatwallet: Nigerians need their colonial superior masters (the whites) to come back and whoop their Nigger Asses for not passing the test.walking around with big potbelly and wearing clown hats doing nothing.
unless all nigerians magically turn to white like michael jackson , have a brain transplant surgery,change the climate of Nigeria or get colonized and greatly influenced by whites ,Nigeria is truly doomed.
have you ever seen a black first world country? verily i say to you that if you transfer all whites to Nigeria and transfer nigerians to America ,Americans would be applying for Nigerian Visa.they would go give birth in Nigeria.
the tiny islands of Haiti,Jamaica, s.t Lucia etc. have electricity interruptions like Nigeria yet Canada and U.S are as big as africa and there's electricity in even the most remote countryside.
the beautiful resorts in caribbean are built by whites and thats to show you what the entire island would have looked like.the bauxite is mined by whites. U.S virgin Islands in the same caribean is developed.
Iceland is cold barren island turned into paradise yet jamaica Is a tropical shithole. Kingston jamaica is the murder capital of the world,untold poverty.
you think Arabs actually built Dubai? who do you think influenced and helped develop japan,hong kong ,,singapore,malaysia,johannesburg etc.
without a white touch and influence, Nigeria is doomed.
Knowledge is Light,Ignorance is Darkness . sad but true.

tonychristopher:


when was the last time you see a young man going to library or even buying newspaper....This is a classic case of educational decadence and decline.Can you just imagine the spellings and grammer of this writer ?I weep,this is disheartening,
Have you gone to these private schools and interview our teachers? when I was serving I used to have a corp member, she studied mechanical engineering but couldn't teach maths and physics,she was teaching home economics,can you imagine a mechanical engineer doing this? what of the girl I meet at NYSC camp,studied mass communications but can't distinguish libel from defamation. hmmm ,I pray not to send my kid in NIGERIAN universities. Lectures are busy striking,students are busy pinging,govt is busy looting. I JUST WEEP FOR EDUCATION

eluquenson: Fallen standard of education is as a result of irresponsible govt.

chimobiofo1: Pls I wnt to no if Canada or Abadin in UK wic of the Country is beta to go to in terms of Studying n working n living dere. Pls any help shud send to my email @ chimoskiwire@gmail.com

armadeo:


Lord have mercy.

Forgive me everyone but WTF!!!!

nijanigga: Nigerian system is a systematic failure. Unless concerted efforts are put in place to correct our fabrics of lives , it's impossible to fix fallen standard of education alone. If you still have to worry about clean water, food, accommodation, transportation etc. especially in the mist of plenty, you will always be tempted to look for "short cut". Any Nigeria leader can wake up and tell us that they have vision 2010 (Abacha) Vision whatever, but what's been done to achieve just 10% of the countless visions, absolutely nothing, but on the other hand , CORRUPTION is taking strong hold of every aspect of Nigerian society. So, fallen standard of education will not be an aberration.
Sad to say, Nigeria is still a sinking ship, the rest of world are looking at nomothetic approaches of solving their problems, Nigeria have held on to idiographic ideologies for too long. It's no uncommon for young intellectuals who wants to bring new ideas are often frustrated with phrases like, " this is the way ,we have been doing it". I just think Nigerian entity is an anomaly. The 53 years experiment hasn't worked and it won't anytime soon.

Erelu_Y:

@ BOLD: A young Nigerian who completed his MPhil at Cambridge and DPhil at Oxford returned to Nigeria with a view to "making his own little impacts" within the academe. After just over two years of absolute frustration, he returned to the UK and currently lectures in a Russell Group Uni. Shame to Nigeria - a doomed country.