Hello to everyone here and I hope we're all doing good wherever we are?. A lot of things has happened within the few weeks that I couldn't make it down here but I must sincerely say that I'm excited to be part of this week's edition.
Writing according topic laid down in this 86th week's edition 01 "Take one, add one". Left to me, Nigeria's educational system used to be one of the poorest but you know, according the the saying "Time changes everything", Time and season has changed a lot of things for good but there are still some things that little or no attention has been paid towards them. I would like to major on the university way of education and I would list them out according to their level of priority;
STRIKES
Nigeria's educational system and the people working in this system sees strike as a way of communicating their anguishes to the government. Academic and non-academic staffs always use strike to teach the governments lesson, whereas, the students suffers for it. There's an adage that says "When two elephants are fighting in the forest, the grasses and trees around them would be the ones to suffer it", that's exactly how incessant strikes affects students and waste innocent people's time all because the government has fused to carry out their duties by paying the staffs working in the educational sector their salaries which is meant to be the rewards of their hard work.
UNNECESSARY BORROWING OF COURSES
My dear people, you see this aspect ehn, it one of the major issues that students face in school and that's because, most unnecessary borrowed courses seems to be irrelevant and they give students headache. Let me use my Course of study, "Food Science and Technology (FST)" as a case study. We borrowed some courses like computer science, zoology and the rest when we should have dived into FST proper to avoid using Five years to study when other schools outside Nigeria use three years to study FST.
Moving forward, some valuable ideas to replace them with are;
MORE OF PRACTICALS
I'd advice that most unnecessary borrowed courses should be replaced with departmental practical works. This will help them to get more familiar with the course and at the same time, help them become handy and more Versatile when it comes to both the theoretical and experimental knowledge of the course. Personally, I was able to relate more with the theoretical part of my course studied in school when I went for my Industrial training during my 400 level. It was until then I got the chance to relate the theories I learnt in class with the practical work I did over there before I could understand some things, which isn't supposed to be.
REDUCTION OF FEES
The economy is smiling at all here in Nigeria, exchange rate keeps rising and this has affected virtually all the prices of most items in the market, causing people to buy less with more money, compared to what they used to have before. This has caused a drastic reduction in so many people's standard of leaving, yet they have to pay more to acquire education especially government/federal schools. Their due level has almost matched up to those of some private schools.
This has resulted in the abrupt end in studying for some people just because they can't afford the school fees and ever other dues attached to schooling in Nigeria.
These are the ones I can talk about for now and I really do hope things change for the best in the educational system of Nigeria. Thank you all for stopping by my post, a big hug from me to you all 馃.
