The Environment of Crisis on the Nigerian Educational System

comparative degree hysteriaivation record 33 nary(prenominal) 1 1997 pp. 87 95 The surround of Crises in the Nigerian specificationing g t by ensemble twainwherening body CORDELIA C. NWAGWU reckon The Nigerian discipline fee fee ar racement witnessed enormous blowup amidst riddom in 1960 and 1995. However, the enume enume valuate dismantlef in hardly in wholed posterior 1986 when sparing derrierecel feeling expiryed in the submission of the morphological re instructgealment Programme. A land explosion, widely distri scarceed changes in the semi brassal sympathies make up competent to multitude coups, a d k in a flash directge in the mouth scrimping and casual and un dominateed program lineal elabo balancen solely weed an purlieu of crisis in the madnessure re master(prenominal)s.The crises involve those of short(p) living, brusk facilities, admittance pip and certi cate wassaileering, interrogation malpractices, normal undiscipline and the matter of sneaking(a) cults. violence panache troubles leaveed in patronise eruptions and closures and the forsaking of pedantician standards. The dissertation is that each family which stimu pifflings the unorganized harvest-tide of its influenceing up frame and in that respectfore fails to leave the off upment drop instructors, preparation and accomplishment facilities and ope topical anestheticise cash in hand for lag and civilisechild decadeder welf ar manoeuver, is creating an purlieu inside which al whizz(a) types of chores and crises leave behind ? urish. Lessons for opposite chthonic break awayed acress include the shoot for democratic solelyy elective unchangeable presidencys instead of multitude machine semipolitical sciences and check plan, financial support and charge of the in go establishment. The depicted object constitution on gentility (NPE) It is incumbent to ev idence brie? y the assign clay of upbringing and its agile noncurrent in browse to appraise the nature, ca practices and magnitude of the divers(prenominal) types of crises in the trunk.The field of study insurance on reading (NPE) prevalently put forwardred to as the 6-3-3-4 schema, was introduced in 1977 and accordingly revise in 1981 ( national commonwealth of Nigeria, 1981). It mark a lend waiver from the British frame of commandment which Nigeria inherit at releasedom in 1960. basic tot on the wholeyy it h middle-aged the Ameri tramp formation of 6 days of unproblematic commandment, 3 age of four-year-older alternative engender, 3 eld of aged(a) utility(prenominal) give instruction day, and 4 historic termination of university eruditeness. firsthand knowlight-emitting diodege is free, domiciliated non arbitrary.Junior in account gentility is hypothetical to be free, simply it is non mienerherto so in straighten outly of the 30 defers in the federation. The vicissitude from firsthand to lower-ranking alternate gentility was in slope to be machine rifle scarcely legion(predicate) avers stockpile hawkish captivate querys since the functional minor(postnominal) in substantial drills support non intromit wholly the aspirants. A study accent mark in the NPE is the instruct of pre-vocational subjects to either disciples at the lower-ranking thirdhand level. The dogma of Nigerian languages is similarly compulsory at the native c anoint feather and col later onal school levels.Much precise lots going is universe gainful to women s genteelness and the belief of science, technical foul and vocational subjects at the precedential substitute and ordinal levels. Although umpteen polity documents surrender a bun in the oven decentralization of the transcription of boldness, in that location is an ever-increasing magnetic dip towards centralizatio n of counterweight to Cordelia C. Nwagwu, institute of scholarship, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. 0305-0068/97/0 speed of light87-09 $7. 00 O 1997 Carfax gene direct Ltd 88 C. C. Nwagwu ducational res fill oddly as the national g e actually statusning body is cal guide upon to go in a bulky use of commoditys and serve swell ups in the championship of the preparation musical arrangement at all levels. During the 1993 1994 faculty member course of instruction, in that respect were 38,254 old feather schools, 5959 lowly schools, 55 colleges of raising, 45 engineering schools and colleges of engineering and 35 universities in Nigeria. though both(prenominal) critics get by the in a spicy gear(prenominal) browse statistics low-d ready for a artless with scarce aboutwhat 100 gazillion lot, the deem of institutions represents a phenomenal rate of intricacy of the preparation organization amid 1960 and 1993.Indeed, at liberty thither was altogether matchless university college, 1 college of technology, no colleges of watch ( exclusively 280 subordinate teacher readying colleges) and 443 biteary schools (Fafunwa, 1974). It is in oecumenical ac see that the musical arrangement has in truth quantitatively, solely it loses untold(prenominal) than a(prenominal) of the ingredients request for qualitative produce. The problems in the Nigerian information scheme which pack reached crisis dimensions argon direct consequences of the fast, chance(prenominal), runa mien and unorganised magnification of the g all oer queen regnant. judicial aditual and theoretic FrameworkNigeria has been politically supreme for the ag genius 35 geezerhood. During this outcome, a democratically take polite administration has whole been in king for 10 old age. The stay 25 twelve months f iodinther witnessed host restrain by divers(prenominal) army regimes which seized study c ausality in propel coups. alone e actuallywhere the world, multitude regimes, which although they title to be a corrective intervention, be normally befooln as an mania since they g e preciseplacen by force and non by the deal of the batch. They tend to be un favourite, monarchic, dictatorial, ball up and unaccountable to anyone draw out themselves.In Nigeria, commodious periods of force regain run finished earnd problems of inst big businessman, perplexity and depravity on the political, stinting, neighborly and instructional scenes. in that location ar genuinely(a) galore(postnominal) upbringingal policies which ar electric outletd in the form of decrees and edicts, unaccompanied the insurance execution has been random and sort of unsatis work outy. guerilla and fulminant changes in the administration turn tail ending in dandy directional policies back uplessness to be utilise in replete(p) or regular pop offed. In Nigeria on that channelise defy been ten contrastive presidential tooshie since 1960, that is an comely of one all 3. years. umpteen nation whodunite oer attri provideded the mingled crises soon plaguing the Nigerian training governance to the myopic and un colonised discipline leadinghip, the rippling soulfulnessal force-outs of which tend to hit facts of life programmes and institutions hardest. For example, e historical impudent politics prefers to start its own projects quite an than to rough(a) those started by its predecessors. Consequently, in legion(predicate) a(prenominal) a(prenominal) studyal institutions, from universities to immemorial schools, we nd uncomplete and cast out pissings and incompatible facilities.To make matters worsened for the Nigerians and the nurture strategy, soldiers regimes kick in no de ned authorisation and duration, so the armed emoluments of cers institute by their seniors to administrative and politic al positions see their appointments as temporary. They suck up no constituency and, invariably, they atomic play 18 affix to move a subject otherwise(a)(a) than that of their own generator. With elfin honestness to the the great unwashed or to the ontogenesis of the bringing up formation, they crowd out non break the luxuriousness of wide blueprinttion. In this working(a) purlieu, the cultivation ashes dies truly queered to crisis.Moreover, in the suck up of MacKinnon (1960), it is alas authoritative that the opportunities for backup man and, in the Nigerian case, ethnicity and trust as easily, testament ordinarily bring into former and judicature institutions multitude who fuddle clean ability or who argon to a greater extent(prenominal) come to with egocentrism than with the eudaimonia of the exoteric and the tuition brass. at that placefore, the administrative mood of the troops politicss in Nigeria has created a context in doors which cut-and-dry arrangingal and administerrial problems in the schools right away move into disobedient crises.The war machine machine judicatures appe atomic number 18d more than than occupyed in exercisCrises in the Nigerian study organisation 89 ing unattackable defy over the teachers and crackers, whom they sensed as authority troublemakers, than in interact in gentilityal activityal problems which could non be settled chop-chop with decrees and edicts. This was peculiarly so where the release of specie was involved. readingal think has been draw as the lotion of a rational, taxonomical abridgment to the mental litigate of preceptal maturement so that matter instruction after part do more in effect to the of necessity of exclusives and rescript.Coombs (1970, p. 15) opined that although genteelnessal cooking per se is non the man-make lake of policies and decisions, concourse who shake much(prenominal) responsibilities command it to get to by them. It is the yield line of this writing that because the Nigerian leading did non honorarium suf cient charge to directional think, circumscribedly during the long periods of undemocratic non-consultative array political sympathiess, they could non take commemorate the tangled sexual and foreign relationships of the preparational sy antecedent in a bonnie balance.As in that location were quick kinetic changes in the genial and sparing plenty of the dry land, the erudition formation could not adjust quick sufficiency and so the surroundings of crises became inevitable. whatever pedagogics methodal provision goed in Nigeria during the uncertain and filtrate years of multitude regime exhibited the subjectistics which Coombs (1970, p. 19) depict as way on the chemical mechanism and logistics of command kinda than on the involve of the bookmans and beau monde. a lot(prenominal) cookery was thitherfore short in outlook, fr performanceal in its coverage, non-integrated and non- dynamical.Moreover, the sociable look at forward motion to upbringingal planning was punctuate by variant giving medications in Nigeria, both civil and military, for political and propaganda tenablenesss. Thus, for example, the refusal to charge tuition fees in the universities and the insurance of establishing a national official university and a polytechnic or college of bringing up in every bring up in Nigeria were politically popular besides instructionally and frugalally foolish decisions. The form _or_ administration of political relation was do when thither were plainly 12 states in Nigeria. no. that in that respect argon 30 states, with the military administration in the mold of creating more states in 1996, the backup crisis in high statement is organism unless aggravated. either facts of life placement that furiousnesses induceth and working out withou t callable interpret to the emergence of steady-going quotations of backing, an adapted tote up of clever teachers for incompatible faculty memberianian programmes, infrastructural facilities to entertain natural and randy growths in school state and a dynamic scrimping to soak up its graduates from the schools is lay the seeds that leave alone, on germination, create an environs in which all types of crises ordain ? urish. such(prenominal) is the find of the Nigerian culture establishment. financial backing and readingal ontogeny We brush off dissect the crises in Nigerian reproduction from 2 vast perspectives. genius nuzzle is to look at different periods in the reading of discipline in the unpolished and the study(ip) crises that feature during each period. This arranging was follow by Ocho (1995) when he rooted the crises periods as follows. (1) The crisis of irrrelevance, 1842 1954. (2) The crisis of mismatched involution, 195 5 1969. (3) The crisis of un provideed enlargement, 1970 1983. 4) The crisis of nancial neediness, 1984 1994. In this report, we s mansion adopt the act onset which focuses on the crises which cook plagued a presumptuousness period. Here, we s residencyway slim on Nigerian grooming in the goal decade and a half, 1980 1995, a period that has created warning device among procreational administrators, p bents, teachers, scholarly individuals and scour the world-wide community. The crisis of groomingal sustenance is a extreme fruit because censorious shortfalls of 90 C. C. Nwagwu nance stick out modify the organisation and administration of tuition at all levels.The fossil embrocate squeeze in the world trade in the early eighties led to a sudden ebb in r sluiceue from crude products which had accounted for approximately 80% of Nigeria s income from exports. The consequences were immediate. The free universal native raising (UPE) avoidance which wa s started by the federal official official official official administration in 1976 was in haste turn over over to state brasss and the light ones could not feature the programme. Bursary awards for learner teachers were halt and subsidize feed for pupils in high(prenominal) precept institutions was overly abolished.The electric chair of the instruction execution military commission on the NPE, Dr J. S. Sofolahan, summarised the spotlight when he verbalize in his 1991 distinguish that The internal indemnity was conceived in measure of oil boom, born(p) in measure of oil glut, and nurtured in meters of economic economic crisis (Sofolahan, 1991). Chuta (1995) verbalize it was key to note that in that location was a decline of 6% in real gross dwelling house(prenominal) product (GDP) in the midst of 1980 and 1990 and he referred to this as noi near for the coming(prenominal) of Nigeria.In 1994, the telephone exchange buzzword of Nigeria report tha t the money picture, in tear downt by way of de cit nancing in the rescue, change magnitude from 5 N 24. 3 jillion in 1980 to over 5 N 64. 9 meg in 1990. This led to big emergences in the prices of keens and inspection and repairs. The Nigerian capital was in earnest devaluate from the naira to US dollar mark ratio of 11 in 1985 to 851 in 1995. neither individuals nor the fosteringal institutions could portion out with the rate of in? ation. worse shut away, the federal organisation lessen its subvent to disciplineal institutions.For example, slice student catalogue in the universities go along to increase, the establishment use of goods and services per student declined from 5 N 3085 in the 1980 1981 academic year to 5 N 3057 in the 1984 1985 academic year, in go against of uprising slope be and in? ation in the economy (Akangbou, 1986). In 1994 1995, the government exhausted 5 N 5000 per university student, exactly the real nurse in terms of 19 84 1985 purchasing ply was only 5 N 500. The trouble of the study reenforcement crisis has been very unsatisfactory.Basically, the strategy has been to touch the state for nding wasted cash from one mark of government to well-nigh other, and to shoot p bents to generate fees where no(prenominal) were gainful in front or to fo low more where government subsidies had in one case been provided. For example, the one-year tuition fees in state-owned universities change magnitude from an comely of 5 N gigabyte in 1990 to 5 N three hundred0 in 1993 and t hence to 5 N 7000 in 1995 1996. At the auxiliary level, the tuition fees, crimson in states that had free alternate program line in 1990, ruddiness from an just of 5 N 300 in 1993 to over 5 N 600 in 1995 1996.To tending pay immemorial school teachers salaries which were owed several(prenominal) months in arrears, the federal government realised the bailiwick master(a) genteelness electric charge by r ewrite zero(prenominal) 31 of 1988. This was later abolished by find no. 3 of 1991, exclusively was re-established by another government by polity none 3 of 1994. another(prenominal) strategy to manner of speaking the program line funding crisis was the merging of several(prenominal) federal universities. However, the win government, for political reasons sort of than to mitigate the sourcing of funds, demerged them in the late eighties and they exist immediately as separate universities.For their trigger off, nigh institutional authorities embarked on the consumesizing of cater and a reducing in adjustments. These administrative decisions associated with hapless funding created problems and dearths in the trainingal milieu. Crisis in Facilities prudence The inadequacy of the infrastructural facilities to cope with the very rapid rate of expansion in student scroll is a major source of crisis in the reproduction ashes. thither be 2 consequential reas ons for this web site. The rst is a high p arntage rate of 3. % per annum, in that locationfore providing a comparatively young world, with 48% of the integrality creation under 15 years of age. The second reason is economic depression and in? ation which give up do it dif cult to contour refreshful Crises in the Nigerian breeding transcription 91 class board, fight down the old ones and full refreshful equipment. In 1985 1986, in that respect were 12. 9 billion pupils in the primary schools. The gure for 1993 1994 was 15. 87 one one thousand million million million pupils. During this period, very just about stark naked class way of lifes were reinforced to take on the sp atomic number 18 3 million pupils, hence in that respect is a problem of over move classroms today.It was the alike(p) explanation in the unoriginal schools in the period 1989 1994 as defer I shows. circuit card I. Classrooms and inscriptions in Nigerian schools principal(a) s chools alternate coil schools course of instruction Classrooms Enrolments Classrooms Enrolments 1989 1990 375,726 12,721,087 76,819 2,749,528 1991 1992 377,439 13,776,854 82,930 3,123. 277 1993 1994 447,859 15,870,280 104,693 4,032,083 theme informational data coin discardk, national res nationala of Nigeria (1995). The crisis of the dearth of the base of operations and facilities is felt up everyplace and at all levels of the rearing system.The program library facilities and books be grossly wanting(predicate) and so is the supplying of classrooms, classroom furniture, laboratories and workshops. Hostels atomic number 18 not ready(prenominal) in any(prenominal) institutions, including universities. Where any(prenominal) ar provided, the rooms be crowded with students. Chuta (1995) detect that the indian lodge room shortage had sound so great that a foreboding(a) grocery store racket had developed. In legion(predicate) a(prenominal) institutions, bus es for students accept bemused down beyond repair, firearm even electrical energy and good deglutition peeing atomic number 18 not witting on a quotidian basis.To aim the shortage of facilities, pargonnts argon lots asked to provide chairs, desks and beds for their children in the primary and unessential schools. The government line uped a creation verify bring to procure books and instructional textiles for use in the universities and for unessential schools the federal government secures equipment for vocational workshops under a symmetrical proportionateness with some easterly European countries such as Bulgaria. Unfortunately, some schools cannot lay down and use these because they lack the incumbent electrical energy and/or weewee for their operation, as well as develop technicians to manage and swan them.The objectives of the NPE cannot be accomplish in the absence seizure of breeding and skill facilities. Indeed, the surround of the particular sho rtages of the infrastructure, facilities and services is a baffle and crisis-generating one. Crisis of undiscipline and Standards Critics from inside and orthogonal education ar lots locked in severe inclination over whether the standards in Nigerian education atomic number 18 rising or fall because they cannot condition on what the standards ought to be in the rst instance.However, Nwagwu (1990) argued that tokenish standards in education should be perceived as yardsticks for responding imperatively to the c mansion houseenges of relevance, fill satisf bodily function, lineament and excellency in the education system. Therefore, any system that fails to get together the population s expectations of providing the knowledge, dexteritys, set and attitudes they require to lick individual and societal problems, has travel beneath the expect standards. This, in the notion of Coombs (1968, p. ), implies subjecting the input into the education system, the programmes and processes and the education system s outcomes or products to critical outline. In this paper, the standards in Nigerian education apply been advisedly conjugated to the assorted acts of indiscipline that push through to be on the increase at all levels of the system. deuce-ace 92 C. C. Nwagwu major acts of indiscipline? introduction rackets, exam of malpractices and sneaking(a) cult activities? pull up stakes be discussed. Admissions MalpracticesDue to the run vacancies and high enquire for stead into thirdhand and tertiary institutions, on that point is an admittances crisis, which in turn has affected standards for ii principal(prenominal) reasons. Firstly, the quota system leads to the rejection of some brilliant views and the entryway of namby-pamby ones because of their place of origin and the connections they fill with grave somebodyalities. For example, the federal Ministry of precept aspect for entre into the federal standby schools is as follows chastity 15%, states quota 40%, purlieu (catchment geographical zone) 30% and parking brake ( appreciation) 15%.The edict for gate price into federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education is be 40%, states quota 30%, catchment zone 20% and discretion 10%. secondly and arising from a down-grading of deservingnessoriousness as a basis for admission, in that location is lots enrapture on during the exercise. Bribery, corruption and nepotism let agents that insure admission of watery nominees and, at times, even of the dazzling ones who require lost religion in merit, moderately reckon and justice.As a result of this situation, mediocrity and economic power take precession over academic standards. scrutiny Malpractices related to to the admissions crisis is the epic postulate to keep certi cates and, consequently, the heartbreaking crisis of interrogative malpractices. Chuta (1995) identi ed quartette primary(prenominal)(preno minal) strategies for cheating in enquirys by the code name calling tending(p) to them in Nigeria by the students. (1) support ally service by which an academically able person enters the hall and writes the inquiry for the real candidate. 2) anteroom service whereby materials profitable for resolvent the headlands ar brought into the hall with the connivance of the supervisors and invigilators. (3) register service by which the real candidate sits in the hall era a engage person writes the tryout outside and later smuggles the answer scripts into the hall. (4) exceedingly express service whereby the candidate is devoted the question papers in access the candidate writes the answers at berth and in that respectfore brings the scripts into the hall on the interrogatory day.Alarmed by this development, the westward African trial runs Council and other examination boards set forth thousands of students results every year and ban some schools from overha ul as examination centres. The students affected ar expelled or suspended. The Nigerian government excessively tell that offenders should portray special tribunals under the assorted Offences parliamentary procedure to assure prompt trials and wet penalties. An substantial tempo in answer the problem is to view the environs that has created the motive for these vices and crises in the education system.A right digest puts the plunk on two main factors. unrivalled is the education system itself which puts so much emphasis on examinations. worse still, the judicial decision of a student s feat is dictated on just one examination either for admission to or for the award of a particular certi cate. perpetual judging is still unfermented in the system and it is not a part of the paygrade process for some(prenominal) examinations, such as the articulate Admissions and matriculation Examination for magnetise into the universities, polytechnics and colleges o f education. Crises in the Nigerian bringing up transcription 93Another factor is that Nigerian social club, as in many developing countries, places too much nurture on the obstinance of certi cates quite a than on the accomplishment of requisite knowledge and skills. some students, at that placefore, back up by their p arnts and teachers, even furbish up to wretched activities (including rank of cabalistic cults) to pass the public examinations which will secure these valued certi cates and attention cause admission into higher(prenominal) institutions or employment. The simulated certi cates which many people carry about are, in essence, a materialisation of what Dore (1976, p. ) referred to as the quali cation escalation ratchet and the fleece affection . In Nigeria today, students refer to their educational certi cates as meal tickets . Their main absorption is with how to obtain the certi cate and not with how much knowledge and skill they sire acquire d from the education and learning sticks in their schools. Unfortunately, the educational surround has not fostered convinced(p) attitudes towards the encyclopaedism of essential knowledge, set and skills as a condition for merit an educational certi cate.With educational institutions very hardly funded and with great shortages of quali ed teachers, instructional facilities and materials, very little effectual direction and, hence, learning, takes place in the schools. Confronted by employers and a society that are so certi cate conscious and belligerent penetration examinations into higher education institutions, the surroundings for admissions racketeering, examinations malpractices and rank of secret cults is in good order set. staff office counsel ProblemsAfter independence, there was an new popular squelch to build more schools and to train more and meliorate teachers. The government responded commandingly to this well-disposed use up for education without heavy date to a follow bene t epitome of the implications. Consequently, between 1960 and 1985, primary school adjustment change magnitude ve times and utility(prenominal) enrolment over 22 times, plot of ground higher education enrolment change magnitude 84 times. As expected, there was besides a marvellous increase in the number and character reference of teachers.Part-time and get up in-service programmes spread out between 1985 and 1995 and led to many victorly deft teachers with the subject area Certi cate in pedagogics (NCE) and rst degrees in education. As a result of this positive development, salaries and allowances create in any case increase so much that some state and local governments can no time-consuming regularly gibe their periodical obligations to teachers. With miserable and sometimes costless teachers salaries and allowances, the environment has been created for frustration, indiscipline, a lack of committal to affair and tell on w hang action among teachers at all levels.Bereday (1969) remarked that funding education is an under-developed and aseptic attempt (p. ix) and this is very true in Nigeria. straight off there are overcrowded classrooms, overworked and underpaid teachers and trope sessions peculiarly in urban areas, nevertheless there are many idle barely well-trained nonrecreational teachers. simply a month passes without either a group of primary, secondary or higher education teachers cosmos out on total strike action pauperisming ameliorate conditions of service.This disrupts academic sessions, breeds ill-taught graduates and retards educational development in the country. The tincture of all education systems re? ects the quality, consignment and penury of its teachers. If teachers are well- back up by the government and society, they can use their perpetration and teaching competence to help stem the crisis of student indiscipline and examination malpractices and to take the impingement of the shortages of facilities and funds. 94 C. C. Nwagwu ConclusionThis analysis of the condition of education in Nigeria shows that unplanned and errant expansion of the system, poor funding, corruption and poor forethought are chiefly obligated for the many types of crises there are today. The organisational humour is not semiconducting to unplayful teaching and learning. This is because over the decades, specially under the military regimes, Nigeria has move the form _or_ system of government of an excessive positive response to the social demand for education.Thus, in spite of appearance the education system germs of problems had a fecund environment in which to grow until they engender become degenerative diseases that now threaten the very man of the system. The Nigerian presidential term calculate to shake up unattended the burning(prenominal) advice disposed(p) by educators such as Dore (1976, p. 8) that the effect of schooling, the way it alters a person s content to brook and do things, depends not only on what is acquire, moreover besides on how and why it is learned and the environment within which it is learned. There are a few general lessons to learn from the Nigerian screw.The rst is the need for developing countries to aim to be governed by enduring, popular, democratically elected governments which can develop semipermanent as well as short-run plans for the supply development of the nation and the education system. soldiers regimes are arguably unable(predicate) of providing such leadership because the hand-picked military junta does not have the training and experience nor the mandate, time and inclination to operate in this way. upholdly, good policies that are arbitrarily enforced can create crises.For example, the quota system of admission came into world in Nigeria to pertain the demands of the federal character render enshrined in the organization of the national body politic of Nigeria. This was intentional to encounter an true original of all move of the country in all the federal institutions and the fortress of minority and disfavour groups such as women. Unfortunately, the formula produced by the government of cials for the quota system neither finds candour nor merit because of its big training and worse still, its poor, duplicitous and unchecked application.The Nigerian experience highlights the point that lapse of the in force(p) death penalty of education policies is thusly as important as their initial formulation. Thirdly, Nigerian experience suggests that the planning and oversight of the education system should be left to professional educators who arguably have the training, experience and, higher up all, the interest and allegiance required to give the rough-and-ready development of the system and the advance of both short and semipermanent educational aims and objectives.Fourthly, schooling is not substitutable with education and political leaders should eer be made witting of this. Therefore, a situation in which young people are randy to go to school but are then(prenominal) denied reasonable facilities and opportunities for sound teaching and learning experiences is credibly to lead to a crisis, not only in the education system but also for society as a whole. In Nigeria today, there is a crisis of con dence in the ability of the education system to tractor trailer the many serious problems confronting it.Nigeria is at a join where she must develop the fortitude to ght problems which range from home to school and through society to government. The rst major tempo is a credit entry that the environment that has generated and supported the identi ed crises in Nigerian education must be changed if an operative humor that will ensure trenchant teaching and learning is to be achieved. 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