Education Problems in Nigeria: Implications for Decision Making
Keywords:
Funding, Education, School, TeachersAbstract
The paper discusses the various problems hindering education development in Nigeria. The paper is a review paper. It employed a systematic literature review-based method. Previous literature from both online publications and print sources was reviewed. Content analysis was adopted to select the final literature used in the paper. The paper reveals that poor funding, shortage of professional teachers, infrastructure facilities, insecurities, corruption, lack of current data for planning and appointment of non-professionals to head educational institutions are some of the major problems facing education in Nigeria. Based on these findings, the paper recommends among other things that: there should be an increment in the budgetary allocation to education, employment of adequate professional teachers, provision of modern infrastructure facilities, provision of adequate security in schools, deployment of technologies to curtain corruption in the education administration, generation of timely data for educational planning and appointment of professional and qualified persons to head educational institutions.
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