Teachers Education in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects

Abstract

Teacher education is a very important form of education that deals with the production of manpower in the field of education. It is an education system that builds other institutions. Teacher education is the bedrock of all forms of education because it produces manpower for them. This paper examined the problems militating against the development of teacher education in Nigeria and the prospects of teacher education in Nigeria. Secondary data were used in the paper. The secondary data were collected from print and online publications. The paper identified inadequate funding, lack of current data, corruption, shortage of infrastructural facilities, inadequate academic staff, strike actions and brain-drain as some of the problems while in the areas of prospects, promised increment in funding and presence of international organizations in Nigeria were identified as prospect of teacher education in Nigeria. Based on these problems and prospects identified, the paper hereby recommended the following: increment in the allocation of funds for teachers education; employment of more professional academic staff in all teacher education programme, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities to all the teachers education institutions, the government should direct all its anti-corruption agencies to monitor all the monies released for the management and administration of teachers education in Nigeria and also ensuring that agreement reached with different union groups in the teacher’s education institutions are implemented to avoid strike actions.