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Academia task government on funding, education reform

By Oluwaseun Akingboye
02 July 2016   |   1:11 am
Members of the academic community across the country have disclosed that it would take strong political will to enforce the prerequisite changes that would spur growth and development in the educational sector in the country.
Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo

Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo

Members of the academic community across the country have disclosed that it would take strong political will to enforce the prerequisite changes that would spur growth and development in the educational sector in the country.

This was stated at the 6th Annual Conference held at Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo with theme as, “Restructuring the Nigerian Educational System for Global Best Practices and Poverty Alleviation.”

Speaking at the event, chairman of the occasion, Mrs. Titi Akinsiku, noted that the Nigerian education system has repeatedly metamorphosed from 6-5-4 to 6-3-3-4 in 1982 and later to 9-3-4 to meet the developmental needs of the nation.

“Problems bedeviling the Nigerian educational system are not nomenclature or just playing around semantics, but a hydra-headed issue called lack of political will,” she said.

The chairman, alongside the keynoter, Dr. Olusola Adesina, from Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo State; the Lead Paper presenters, Dr. Afolabi Oluwole from Department of Educational Administration, ACE and Prof. Kehinde Taiwo, the Dean, Faculty of Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile-Ife, enjoined government and stakeholders to invest more in education.

The speakers noted that it would be proper for government to employ global best practices, while restructuring because it would not only better the sector better, but would considerably alleviate poverty.

The speakers called for proper funding of all the tiers of education, adding that improving the welfare of the implementers of educational policy, provision of adequate infrastructure, issuance of grants, loans and scholarship to encourage the less privileged would further help the sector to be functional.

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