The standard of education in Nigeria will continue to fall because politics and white collar job are hindering the development of the sector, Ibrahim Malumfashi, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Kaduna State University, has said.
In an interview with our correspondent, Malumfashi, who is also the Head of Department, Nigerian Linguistics and Logistics, at the university, added that students are not learning now adays, but are only have interest in getting good certificates at all cost to secure white collar jobs.He said the education sector in the past was much better than the one of nowadays because during the colonial rule, there were arrangement on ground to make sure that the education sector works well.
There was support from government in terms of infrastructural equipment, recruitment of staff, even the monitoring aspect of the system there were using in the olden days are more beter than today's own. At that time, you had inspectors for primary and secondary schools and they monitor them several times. From the early 1970's to the 80's, we started observing the worst in the sector. Some people blamed the whole scenario on over exposing of students and pupils right from 1976, when Obasanjo introduced the Universal Primary Education (UPE) which brought a lot of movement from the primary level to the secondary."
1982, the number of students coming out of the primary school going to the secondary school and those leaving the secondary school to the higher institution increases and pupils were just being graduated en-masse; that was the beginning of the whole problem that education sector in Nigeria are facing nowadays," he said.
Malumfashi, who said politics also plays a major part in the education system, added, "It is like this; if I am chairman of a particular local government, I will ask my people to bring their people, and we will just put them in the sector. i will not even check maybe the person has the idear or not,just to continue collecting salary without doing any job."
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