Reasons For Very High Failure Rates In Nigerian Higher Institutions

Why would anyone pass when you have to -

• Wakeup at 3a.m so you can be sitting in the cold classroom by 5a.m inorder to get a seat among 1000 students who will be struggling to find seat in an auditorium expected to seat 300.
  
  Be taught by a lowly paid and highly frustrated lecturer who will not even be able to project his voice so all students can hear due to old age
  
  Learn about equipments through descriptions on the blackboard and not in the laboratory
  
  Work with completely DEAD apparatus
  
  Withstand all sorts of assault from lecturers
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Studying under this circumstances, why would anyone pass???

I'm working on a non-profit project (with a whole lot of other people) that will allow very good lecturers share their course notes, record lecture classes and share this with students all over the country using ICTs. This will give you the opportunity to learn from highly motivated lecturers and at your own pace too.

For the first phase of the project, we want to use courses that students find very difficult across the country's higher institutions. So I am collating the list of courses and specific topics that students find difficult understanding with recommendation of lecturers that they think can teach the these topics very very well.

To assist with this project, please state the following in a reply to this post (sincerely hoping Seun will allow this on the forum):
1) your school
2) your discipline
3) the course you are finding very difficult understanding (if you are still in school)/ course that was most difficult (if you are out of school)
4) the specific topics of the course that are difficult
5) if any answer: the lecturer(s) you think can best teach each of the topics