The lockdown that commenced this week means that we had to work from our hole again. In-order to avoid the loneliness that I felt during the March lockdown, I escaped to my friend’s house. So, na work and gist we go dey do.

We ran into Dr Dipo’s Insta-live talk on the above subject. The conclusion of our deliberation are thus;

The general definition of literate is “ability to read and write”. This skill required to be literate can be acquired through primary and secondary education. Basic education is fundamental human right. Hence, it is government’s responsibility to ensure fundamental human rights are provided. Primary and secondary education should be compulsory and mandatorily delivered by the government.

University education is a choice and not compulsory.

In Nigeria, primary, secondary and tertiary level education are ran both by government and private bodies. At all level, government heavily subsidize the cost. Most Nigerians subscribe to privately ran schools for primary and secondary because that of government is mostly dysfunctional while most tend to favour government’s tertiary institution because of the exorbitant cost of the private tertiary schools.

The government’s primary and secondary schools are dysfunctional because more of the education budget is channel to tertiary level.

Given that tertiary education is not compulsory, we are of the view that government needs to divest from this and use the whole budget to appropriately fund the primary and secondary education which are compulsory. To achieve optimal result, the curriculum of these basic education should be refined to include life related courses like philosophy, logic and introductory to vocational skills.

Students that graduate from secondary schools are to assess whether they would like to proceed to tertiary institution, go to vocational acquisition centres, learn a trade or join the emerging sector such as IT that does not require university education.

For those that need to go to the university, government could work out modalities for student loan with financial institutions. This move would have these benefits;

- Schools would no longer be shut because of loggerhead between ASUU and FG over funds that government claim they don’t have
- Indigent parents won’t have to bear the brunt of schools fees anymore. The kids that would assume this would be serious as they would be responsible for repaying for their education in the near future
- Private entities would manage the school better while government regulates it

Should government continue subsiding tertiary institution, Nigerians would see tertiary education as a right and would keep pushing kids to tertiary institution without thinking of other alternatives. It is expected that our population might hit 300m by 2050, this means government have to be expanding the public institution and increasing salary of lecturers. We all know that government’s revenue will not increase in proportionally with this expected population. Hence, we foresee further decay in infrastructure and more strikes as government would not be able to meet up with the liability of funding the school

Yes, in the 1960’s to 2000’s the best solution was for government to fund tertiary institution as more capable citizens with speciality were needed, however, now, we have to re-think the strategy as our revenue cannot support such anymore.

Ezehrobinson:
The lockdown that commenced this week means that we had to work from our hole again. In-order to avoid the loneliness that I felt during the March lockdown, I escaped to my friend’s house. So, na work and gist we go dey do.

We ran into Dr Dipo’s Insta-live talk on the above subject. The conclusion of our deliberation are thus;

The general definition of literate is “ability to read and write”. This skill required to be literate can be acquired through primary and secondary education. Basic education is fundamental human right. Hence, it is government’s responsibility to ensure fundamental human rights are provided. Primary and secondary education should be compulsory and mandatorily delivered by the government.

University education is a choice and not compulsory.

In Nigeria, primary, secondary and tertiary level education are ran both by government and private bodies. At all level, government heavily subsidize the cost. Most Nigerians subscribe to privately ran schools for primary and secondary because that of government is mostly dysfunctional while most tend to favour government’s tertiary institution because of the exorbitant cost of the private tertiary schools.

The government’s primary and secondary schools are dysfunctional because more of the education budget is channel to tertiary level.

Given that tertiary education is not compulsory, we are of the view that government needs to divest from this and use the whole budget to appropriately fund the primary and secondary education which are compulsory. To achieve optimal result, the curriculum of these basic education should be refined to include life related courses like philosophy, logic and introductory to vocational skills.

Students that graduate from secondary schools are to assess whether they would like to proceed to tertiary institution, go to vocational acquisition centres, learn a trade or join the emerging sector such as IT that does not require university education.

For those that need to go to the university, government could work out modalities for student loan with financial institutions. This move would have these benefits;

- Schools would no longer be shut because of loggerhead between ASUU and FG over funds that government claim they don’t have
- Indigent parents won’t have to bear the brunt of schools fees anymore. The kids that would assume this would be serious as they would be responsible for repaying for their education in the near future
- Private entities would manage the school better while government regulates it

Should government continue subsiding tertiary institution, Nigerians would see tertiary education as a right and would keep pushing kids to tertiary institution without thinking of other alternatives. It is expected that our population might hit 300m by 2050, this means government have to be expanding the public institution and increasing salary of lecturers. We all know that government’s revenue will not increase in proportionally with this expected population. Hence, we foresee further decay in infrastructure and more strikes as government would not be able to meet up with the liability of funding the school

Yes, in the 1960’s to 2000’s the best solution was for government to fund tertiary institution as more capable citizens with speciality were needed, however, now, we have to re-think the strategy as our revenue cannot support such anymore.

Ya, University education is not compulsory

Frankly Speaking, Once you can read and write business should be our priority. Education is going to stone age whereas farmers are richer than scholars.

Imagine reading heaven and earth without Job. Such tuition fees will have gone along way