The falling rate of education in Nigeria

Education at present, has no value in the sense that, people who have BSc and HND are now seen as those with secondary school certificate while the polytechnics are now referred to as advanced secondary schools. In days past, a person with senior school certificate was seen as someone who had BSc because, education then […]

Education at present, has no value in the sense that, people who have BSc and HND are now seen as those with secondary school certificate while the polytechnics are now referred to as advanced secondary schools. In days past, a person with senior school certificate was seen as someone who had BSc because, education then was valued unlike today that the reverse is the case in the country’s educational system.
Suffice to say that, our educational system has greatly fallen. Gone are the days that the West African senior school exams were strictly monitored and supervised effectively.
Today, it is a different story as you see people getting machineries that would help them write the exams without them showing up for the papers from day one till the last day and at the end of the day, they will be awarded distinctions and credits all through.
The establishment of private schools has greatly contributed to this fall in education standard. For them to gain ground, they do everything possible to assist their students by collecting large sums of money part of which will be used to settle the invigilators in-charge of their centre.
On the other hand, the exams officials are ready to help them as long as they are ready to pay the required money. These schools have access to exam question papers before the exam day.
Private schools have done so much damage to our educational system than good.
In tertiary institutions, some students do not attend lectures and practicals. This happens mostly among the females because they go out with some so-called lecturers and see no need to attend lectures but at the end of the day, they stand a chance of passing the course without the proper skill acquired.
The male counterparts, too are not left out as they do everything possible, among them contributing money for the lecturer in order to have good grades and the best result that they cannot defend.
This trend has produced thousands of graduates who cannot defend their certificates and their fields of study.
Some lecturers in tertiary institutions are not worthy to be teachers at the lowest rung of the education system due to technological advancement.  They find it difficult to go for research, all they do is to google the topic they are to lecture on the following day and download it without adequate preparation for the lecture.
Other lecturers depend solely on the materials given to them by their lecturers during their own days in school even though such materials are outdated.
As a nation, it is high time we changed the situation for the better if we must produce geniuses in our society because quality education will lead to a wealthy nation. Education must be the bedrock of our society.
Hafsat Yakubu is a HND II student of Mass Communication at Federal Polytechnic, Bida