Towards Actualising Sustainable Education Standards in Nigeria

Florence Modupe Osalusi, B. K. Oyewole

Abstract


The standard of education in Nigeria has now become an issue for national debate as some are of the opinions that the standards of education are falling in Nigeria today. This paper therefore examines the concept of sustainable education standard with allusion to quality education as suggested by UNICEF 2000. It examines the strategies towards ensuring sustainable education standards in Nigeria. These include reviewing the existing national educational policies, increase in budgetary allocation to education, provision of adequate learning resources, promoting capacity building for teachers, modernising instructional supervision, promoting quality assurance in schools, encouraging public/private partnership in education. It concludes that there is urgent need to re-design the school curriculum at all educational levels, train and re-train teachers and adequately fund the school system for the sustainability of education standards in Nigeria as the future development of our nation hinges on the product of our educational system. It therefore recommends that the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria should re-design the schools curricula and syllabi in order to provide functional education for rapid national growth and development.


Keywords


Development, Education, Policies, Standards, Sustainable, Quality

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