DanielsParker:
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ExInferis:
You're quite right our education system is in tatters.

Because you too are a prime example.

You used "youths" to describe a grouping of young people of mixed gender.

You're wrong.

"Youth" is the appropriate word. Because "youths" describes ONLY young MALES , while "youth" denotes young people of all gender.

tosyne2much:
As if I know a thread like this will never garner traffic. This is one of the results of our falling standard of education

sekem:


Na the thing na

What do you think would have happened if this thread was about boobs?

pansophist:


The plural noun of ''youth'' is ''youths''. You are wrong here.

In reference to the emboldened above, there should be no spacing between a word and a comma in the sentence structure of the English grammatical system.

As a grammar-police, this is the most basic of the base, that conceivably, you are oblivious to. Pot calling kettle black.

Hedriz:
Is the system not tolerating mediocrity?

Platinumay:
May we get it right someday, May the labor of our heroes past never be in vain. God help Nigeria

Seunpaul01:
Education is a fraud.

ednut1:
Moral of the story. Nigeria is beyond redemption. Do ur unborn kids a favour by relocating. Jamb should not exist in the first place, just a tool for govt to keep exploiting the poor.

Hedriz:
THE SADDENING COLLAPSE OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
BY; SHOTUNDE OLADIMEJI
Student;
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Nigeria as we all know is a developing nation and a budding country in Africa. It is seen as a country having a lot of potentials to execute and deliver key projects that would help promote and project Africa in good light. It is pathetic and disturbing however, to note that the leaders are the one serving as a bottleneck in the actualization of that dream. The government, both past and current, have shown and displayed high scale corruption, lackadaisical attitude to work and have displayed nonchalant and unsympathetic attitude to issues affecting the masses which they claim to govern.
It is from the foregoing that brought about the sudden or should i say outright decay in the educational sector. If at all a sector should be so destabilized, should it be the educational sector? A sector that stimulates critical thinking which in turn birth innovation that eventually lead to the much needed growth and development.
The educational sector has derailed from a once budding sector in the late 20th century to a sector often characterized by pandemonium, seen as unstable and confused with turmoil. The Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education are grossly underfunded resulting in a proportional decrease in the quality of teaching and service delivery which has in turn had a consequential effect on the graduates emanating from the system.
To make matters worse, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) made cutoffs for higher institutions 120 which they claim is to serve as a benchmark, but from my analysis, 120 out of the total 400 marks obtainable in JAMB is just 30%. Wow!. In a University setting, having a score of 30/100 in an examination would be regarded as an outright failure (Carryover) and considering the fact that 30% is way below the 45% usually used as a pass mark in most Nigerian Universities. Is the system not tolerating mediocrity?
To further compound the problem, Nigerian secondary schools are hell bent on ensuring that candidates that sit for their SSCE examinations in their centers pass in flying colours aimed at fetching goodwill to them, all because of money. Greed! (Exchanging the future for monetary benefits). Don't you think we have a long way to go? We claim our leaders are corrupt but we have forgotten that we ourselves have taken corruption as a way of life (culture).
To further aggravate the challenge, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), a body expected to fight for the interest of the students and constantly orientate our leaders have become so politicised, riotous, fractionalized and lacking direction all because of monetary incentives given by politicians. This is where the youths have failed. Gone are the days!
Nigeria is structured in such a way that the ruling class will continue ruling and the proletariat will continue serving. Most policies are formulated to favour the rich. I read about the "Not Too Young To Rule" bill and posited through my personal conviction that it was passed to favour some certain categories of people who i won't mention. I won't dwell much on that.
Research, which happens to be the framework with which a University operate has been non existent in some institutions. The system, no doubt is grossly underfunded. The Nigerian government seem not to realize that through undertaking quality research, a solution can be proffered to help ameliorate or possibly solve the nation's economic problems. I wonder at times, why the government can't use the funds recovered from treasury looters to properly fund the educational sector. I am sure they travel often and can see what is obtainable in other countries of the world.
My submission;
Not until we start seeing education as a critical and germane component of developing a nation; not until our leaders begin to realize that posterity will judge them all; not until we begin to concentrate resources in the appropriate channels; not until the students themselves standup to challenge maladjusted acts and negligence on the part of government; not until we stop playing petty politics with education and by extension the future of Nigeria, the buoyant future we envisage/crave for Nigeria might not be actualized.
Thanks for reading.
Shotunde Oladimeji

DanielsParker:
It still baffles me, why on earth should jamb make its cut-off mark 120? I mean, it has never been so. Does it mean that the overall performances were poor, I don't get it. Well, I will agree with the op that they encourage mediocrity. That's why most graduates from our Nigerian universities are unemployable, always producing half baked graduates.

Go to our campuses, you'll see my point. Lecturers themselves play a role in this issue. Most of them still use the old syllabus they used in the 1980s, nothing added, nothing removed. Does it mean that since then there haven't been any new discoveries/researches.

Clearly, the education sector is a failing sector, if not so, why are the students sitting idle at home all in the name of ASUU strike when they should be in school studying? What does ASUU want that the government cannot provide? Why can't they come to terms?

otokx:
There is a relationship between education and culture of a people.

Currently the culture of the Nigerian people is largely one of cutting corners so it is affecting the educational system.

We have to get our culture which can be measured via our mentality right before we can feel the real effect on our educational system.

It is a society of get rich or die trying that we find ourselves in currently. So some lecturers teach year in year out with the same notes for over 15 years. Some students sex and sort most of their courses because the end justifies the means.

The society does not help matters by giving age limit and class of grades for job test and interviews.

When you listen to the Nigerian radio or TV there is very little intellectual challenge.

Narldon:



Did You ever ask Yourself why some Slay Queens stopped taking selfies in Mansions, Hotels and Big Cars?





















They're now in their Father's House making Hot Eba because of ASUU STRIKE!

guru90:
I keep on saying it..,,, Buhari came in as a president to Destroy all the good things in Nigeria. I swear, He has no future for his people that he is leading. BUHARI IS A FAILURE!!!!

t2luv1:



Education in that country has been bad before Buhari, and will remain bad after Buhari. What was the condition of the education when Goodluck was in there.