Congrats, ASUP STRIKE Clocks One Year
Academic activities in Nigeria public polytechnics have been paralyzed for the past 10 months which is over one academic year due to the strike action embarked upon by ASUP and the slow pace of action in resolving it by the education ministry. The demands of ASUP union are deemed genuine and rightful as this is a timely intervention to the educational disaster waiting to rock the Nigeria education system.
Going by the figures available, Nigeria is a nation that is educationally disadvantaged. If you agree with me on the mass failure of students in SSCE, WAEC exams yearly, leading to re-writing the exam again and again for students who fail to make the paper.
Also when you compare the number of secondary school graduate yearly to the number of JAMB UTME applicants, it is obvious that there is a population explosion in excess, that is over 70% of students that applied for JAMB the previous year are still re-applying the next year due to their inability to gain admission into tertiary institution. In most cases these students get frustrated after many trials and they end up on the on the street.
The slightly lucky students who were able to gain admission into tertiary institution may not know what the future holds for them, more especially the ones admitted into polytechnics and colleges of technology as our university do not have the capacity to admit all the students that chose them as preferred choice of institute even when they have passed the post-utme exam as the case may be. Most of the students who were not admitted by university will have to seek alternatives in polytechnics and college of technology/education.
Due to the present dichotomy and disparity between HND and BSC holders, the polytechnic applicant is already an inferior to the university student in the making even before he\she started the polytechnic program or course……
To this end if the numbers of JAMB UTME applicants is compared to the numbers of students who successfully gained admission to both university, polytechnics and even college of education yearly, then our education system is on the decline as only 30.5% of over 1.7 million of students that sat for the 2013 UTME exams can be admitted into all tertiary institution (both public and private) in Nigeria.
This is a clear case that Nigerian education system is seriously lacking behind and in the best interest of this nation and its future leaders, as repeatedly being mentioned by Mr. President, and most public office holders, the Nigeria education system is the least that should harbor any form of disparity or dichotomy.
SOLUTIONS
1. Review and upgrade of Nigeria tertiary education curriculum which is obsolete and out-dated to meet with international standard that is obtainable worldwide, this will curb the menace of Nigerians running to other African countries where admission processes is not too ambiguous.....
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Going by the figures available, Nigeria is a nation that is educationally disadvantaged. If you agree with me on the mass failure of students in SSCE, WAEC exams yearly, leading to re-writing the exam again and again for students who fail to make the paper.
Also when you compare the number of secondary school graduate yearly to the number of JAMB UTME applicants, it is obvious that there is a population explosion in excess, that is over 70% of students that applied for JAMB the previous year are still re-applying the next year due to their inability to gain admission into tertiary institution. In most cases these students get frustrated after many trials and they end up on the on the street.
The slightly lucky students who were able to gain admission into tertiary institution may not know what the future holds for them, more especially the ones admitted into polytechnics and colleges of technology as our university do not have the capacity to admit all the students that chose them as preferred choice of institute even when they have passed the post-utme exam as the case may be. Most of the students who were not admitted by university will have to seek alternatives in polytechnics and college of technology/education.
Due to the present dichotomy and disparity between HND and BSC holders, the polytechnic applicant is already an inferior to the university student in the making even before he\she started the polytechnic program or course……
To this end if the numbers of JAMB UTME applicants is compared to the numbers of students who successfully gained admission to both university, polytechnics and even college of education yearly, then our education system is on the decline as only 30.5% of over 1.7 million of students that sat for the 2013 UTME exams can be admitted into all tertiary institution (both public and private) in Nigeria.
This is a clear case that Nigerian education system is seriously lacking behind and in the best interest of this nation and its future leaders, as repeatedly being mentioned by Mr. President, and most public office holders, the Nigeria education system is the least that should harbor any form of disparity or dichotomy.
SOLUTIONS
1. Review and upgrade of Nigeria tertiary education curriculum which is obsolete and out-dated to meet with international standard that is obtainable worldwide, this will curb the menace of Nigerians running to other African countries where admission processes is not too ambiguous.....
Read more
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