The Impact of Economic Hardship on Education in Nigeria
Keywords:
Education, Economic HardshipAbstract
A position paper that depends on secondary data that were obtained from both hardcopy and softcopy such as books, seminar papers, workshop papers, articles among others discussed the impact of economic hardship on education in Nigeria. The paper established from the various literatures reviewed and analyzed that economic hardship has affected education development in Nigeria. The paper noted that economic hardship in Nigeria has led to; increment in operational cost of running schools, slowing down investment in education, increment in student dropout rate, reduction in school’ revenue, retrenchment of teachers, delivery of poor-quality education and increment in prices of instructional resources. Based on the findings, the paper put down the following recommendations; Government should diversify the economy by involving more private sector in the economy. Government should increase the funding of education in Nigeria by increasing more allocation to the education budget. Government should provide school buses to all educational institutions to aid transportation to schools for both teachers and students. Government should increase the salaries of teachers. Government should provide palliative for students such as bursaries and grants. Government should provide free instructional resources such as note books, textbooks, school bags, pens etc for students.
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