Education is a product of civilisation which involves the process of learning and impacting knowledge through an institutional structure. it has been one of the most practiced norms among the populace of the world due to its capacity in creating enlightened citizens. the standard of education in each country depends on the rate of investment the governing body of the state has invested in academic endeavours to ensure development. As much has its benefit the citizens to have standard education, the academic sector has also been a source of revenue for the government and private organisations.
Despite the significance of education it is quite disheartening when I think of how it has been neglected by the government. most Nigerian schools are known across the globe for their ability to impact knowledge but it is also known that most Nigerian schools lack resources to offer students standard education. certain bodies in Nigeria have strived over the years to develop the education sector but recently it seems their struggles has nothing to do with the students but to enrich themselves.
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Being a product of Nigerian schools, one of the greatest challenge of our educational system that I'm aware of apart from unavailable facilities is unnecessary delay, starting from the secondary school level. one of the fastest educational body in processing examination results is JAMB due to their advancement into usage of CBT. The next in line would be WAEC that is if you consider releasing of results after 3-4 months fast, despite the delay the end result is always devastating. in this era of technology where everything seems to be advancing it would not hurt if WAEC {West African examination council} could make use of CBT in the conduct of there exams to fasten up the process.
As if that isn't bad enough, the worst of it all is the delay that occurs during result processing and academic calendar in higher institution, this might not be common in all institutions in Nigeria especially the private ones but in most institutions in Nigeria they all experience one delay or the other. At least A level is made up of two semesters, may be 3 semesters for part time student but in all it should not take more than a year per level but there are times due to strikes as a result of conflict between the institution management and ASUU {Academic staff Union of universities} or ASUP {Academic staff Union of Polytechnics}. or between ASUU/ASUP and government which will eventually drag all academic institutions along, A Level can take more than a years or two years in worst case scenario.
𝖣𝖾𝗌𝗂𝗀𝗇𝖾𝖽 𝗎𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖼𝖺𝗇𝗏𝖺
This has been a constant and reoccurring issue which has been on ground for as far as I could remember but no permanent solution has been found, the most annoying of it all is that this unions either ASUU/ASUP pretend as if this so called strikes are for sake of the students, maybe it is but do they consider the fact that they are also wasting the students lives and putting student future in jeopardy. they are not the ones in school, we are but it doesn't seem to be any concern of theirs. an incident happened in my school during my final year final semester exam. we have already commenced the exam but due to a strike we were not really aware of the exam process was put on hold.
After a week of putting the exam on hold, students began to focus on other activities. a national diploma mass communication student known as happiness odeh went to Ishara Remo Ogun State from Abeokuta Ogun State for a movie audition but she never got there, eventually her body was found in one of the canals {drainage system} with some parts of her body missing, we all know what that means in Nigeria. she was popular in her department, she won the just concluded miss mapoly beauty Pageant. The news of her abduction and death spread as fast as her popularity, telling her stories from different directions and angles just like every typical media organisations would, that is what they have been programmed to do.
But it was quite unfortunate no one attributed the cause of her death to the school because it doesn't seem obvious but it was, she might have been killed by her abductors but the school also played a path in her death. if the exam was never held, she would never have thought of going for an audition for a movie in the process of her final semester exam, she could have graduated like everyone else but no media organisations mentioned this in their articles. just like Joseph Klapper said "All the media does is to engineer content and manipulate words"
Just like happiness odeh a lot of student have also met their end during the process of unnecessary delays in higher institutions. I have also been a victim of this delay, I have been awaiting my final year final semester result since I finished my exam last year December, the result was just released 2 weeks ago this month, it is almost a year. which has delayed me from going for NYSC putting the rest of my future plans on hold, to make matters worst as soon as my school released our results they went on strike, which means there is no way for us to start processing our clearance, indirectly means the possibility of going for NYSC this year is almost impossible.
So yeah, if I'm to remove something from the educational sector, it will definitely be the delays among many other things. though the solution to it will almost take forever to sort out because our corrupt leaders are the source of this problems. if the school management and staffs are given what they ask for and paid their salary regularly without delays, I don't see why any sensible union would go on strike.
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I would gladly replace this delay with resources and facilities to improve the standard of education in my country because we have a lot of facilities without instruments and tools to acquire practical knowledge. And also make sure a lecturer does not teach more than one course, we have lecturers who teaches more than one course subject in different faculties, this is done by the institution in order to cut cost because they can't afford to pay for the expenses of one lecturer per course and the consequences of this is delay in marking of students exam scripts which will take longer than necessary and some students might end up having missing scripts.
A school is a place to acquire knowledge not a place to inflict torture on Students, I believe if all I have mentioned above are implemented, it might take forever but it will improve the standard of education in my country.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled "Take one and add one" in hive learners community.
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