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Issues And Challenges Of Higher Education In Nigeria by collinsnaira(m): 1:59pm On Jul 23, 2015
The problems of access to tertiary education in Nigeria are multifarious in nature. The opening of more tertiary institutions in the country cannot wholly be said to be a panacea to the problem of access to tertiary education. There are certain issues that need to be closely looked at if meaningful access to this Ivory Tower of learning is to be achieved. These issues include:

The Issue of Quota System

The quote system was introduced in an attempt to provide equal opportunity for candidates to be admitted into the university. But regrettably, this system has been greatly abused. Quota system of admission is admitted into the university in one academic year from each state. The quota system comprises three important elements namely, academic merit which is determined by University Matriculation Examination (UME) score and is allotted 45 percent. The second element is Educationally Less Developed States (ELDS) with 20 percent and catchment areas with 35 percent (NUC, 1999). The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is therefore, guided by these provisions in the admission process each year. The defective aspect of the quota system is that the quota has to be filled and this often leads to the lowering of cut-off points in many university departments in order to have enough candidates to fill the quota. The quota system portrays that a candidate from the southern state with UME score of 298 out of 400 from an educationally advantage state may not get admission but his/her counterpart from educationally less advantage state with a lower score may be admitted. Thus, the quota system sort of creates avenues for penalizing those from states described as educationally advantaged. This absurdity should be abolished and admission should be based purely on merit.

The Issue of Funding

University education in Nigeria is facing a heavy expansion and this will.................................
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Re: Issues And Challenges Of Higher Education In Nigeria by TemmyWon(f): 2:05pm On Jul 23, 2015
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Re: Issues And Challenges Of Higher Education In Nigeria by Miracle4Sure: 2:29pm On Jul 23, 2015
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Re: Issues And Challenges Of Higher Education In Nigeria by tufourbaaba: 5:53am On Mar 27, 2017
Are universities not suppose to produced graduates based on the human capital needs of the economy? what do they mean by the quota system? A system that is failed from inception knowing the graduate will not get employment yet go ahead to grant them admission any way? Yes education is every citizen's right, but the decision to want to go to be educated is sole that of the citizen and this is where inspiration comes in. The system is failing and as a lecturer in foreign universities outside Nigeria, i proffer we go back to the drawing table and ask ourselves what exactly we are doing. we are killing the future of Nigeria as a whole and painfully its in all ignorance. Trust me at this pace, the future seemingly will be alot worse that what it is now.

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