How to save education, by experts

The quality of graduates from the nation’s universities is said to be poor. This is why many companies consider them unemployable. Where does the problem lie? To experts, it lies in poor policy implementation and lack of investment, among other factors. OLUWATOYIN ADELEYE reports

With 18,000 private and 1,600 public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State alone, there is no doubt that the education sector is so sensitive that it requires careful management. But the sector’s challenges seem unending – from issues of budgetary allocation, quality of teachers and curriculum content to delivery, technology, and morality. experts have identified loopholes that government and society must fix to raise the system to global standard.

Quality

Founder of the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), Prof Pat Utomi, is so bothered by the problem of quality in the education system that he focused on it at the 34th colloquium of the centre held at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, last month.

Describing it as Nigeria’s biggest education problem, he said: “We still have a problem in Nigeria today about the quality of education. Critical to this problem is that we have not educated our people enough to produce basic needs.”