Nigerian educational system has some serious challenges that make it difficult for people to enjoy schooling in Nigeria especially in some rural area.
Verification of credentials has really been a great issue in Nigeria that is why even people who occupy well-known position their educational qualification is never known to the public and as a result people go about through money so many things that are not confirmed to be true they also so many other challenges facing the educational system of Nigeria let's talk about it.
Poor infrastructure;
In some rural areas in Nigeria there is no comfortable facility for education there are no comfortable classroom there are no book library there are no well equipped laboratories and many more this meat is very difficult for children to learn and for teachers to teach a month cases this is caused by a non-transparent system and a centralized system where just one person has the authority and such ones investors the money for development and leaves the system with low resources that affects the development as a whole.
Outdated curriculum and lack of qualified teachers.
Basically the quality of teachers in a school with determine the quality of education the children in the school will get currently most qualified teachers in Nigeria have left the country to the Europe where they are being paid work and this also point fingers to the effects ects of centralized system.
Most teachers complain of outdated curriculum due to know modern technology to get the latest curriculum and this affect the children and makes a difficult for The society to get a better education if not for those who are financially stable for their children to go to private schools.
Exam malpractice
This has really affected the Nigerian educational system negatively the children end up graduating with certificates that they can't defend and this is not what the country needs because it's seriously affecting development lecturers don't care they only care about bribes that they get from the students and give them chance to do whatever they want in the exam class, due to lack of modern technology that is also limited security and limited digital skills among the children.
If Nigerian educational system adopt blockchain technology it will go a long way in solving all their above mention challenges and even more because of its decentralization transparency and security which is all that Nigerians need for a better education.
Decentralization and Transparency
Yes resources for equipping the educational facilities will not just be in a centralized authority rather it will be recorded in the immutable ledger where everyone can see how those fund are being managed.
Students record as well as the activities will also be recorded and will be transparent this will take away exam malpractice, because blockchain allows global access to all verified credentials so this gives a good students and opportunity to get a better job, unlike the centralized system where they sell children's credential and replaces because the child has no control over their activities that is not the case on blockchain technology the student has a total control over his or her academical record as well as his educational history.
Blockchain will make it difficult for those who create fake credentials so with blockchain technology the Nigerian educational system will get to a good standard and interoperable system.
In the traditional system it takes a lot of time to verify credentials and so many things are involved in verifying credentials is also takes a lot of resources to verify credentials but with blockchain technology there will be no waste of time with just few clicks everybody is done perfectly without mistake and this will Foster trust and confidence in the educational system.
Most times when natural disaster occurs like flood a student will have to go to the court and swear affidavit in order to get back his destroyed credentials but with blockchain there will be transparent digital credentials so no matter the natural disaster a student will still have access to his or her documents.
Plagiarism is also a challenge facing the educational system but blockchain technology will help to fresh house or copyright material and give credits or direct link to the original owner no matter how the information is edited and with this all educational information on chain will be protected.
In summary blockchain will bring a great change to Nigerian educational system student will be so happy likewise everyone in the society because of how blockchain will even help students to earn micro credential badges and all program and activities will be automated with smart contract to the blockchain and all who works so hard will be rewarded accordingly all resources will be used accordingly.
But the question is Nigeria when?
