Abstract Today, the issue of insecurity has become a topic on the lips of every Nigerian. The deteriorating security situation in Nigeria is worrisome and is probably the cause of endemic penury, high rate of unemployment, low industrial output, high inflation rate, deteriorating exchange rate, rising external debt and so on. It is clear that …
A Critical Appraisal of Virtual Teaching and Learning Vis-A-Vis Traditional Classroom Learning in Nigerian Public Universities
Abstract The attention and interest of education systems, especially at the university level, have been shifting, of recent, to virtual teaching and learning. This is a mode of learning that enables the teacher and students to interact and communicate without being physically present to each other. The age-long traditional classroom learning appears to be gradually …
How Social Media Redesigned the Nigerian Education System: A Philosophical Analysis
Abstract The paper “philosophical analysis of how social media redesigned education system in Nigeria” was focussed on the inclusion of social media in teaching and learning. In lieu of that, the researcher explained briefly what education and social media meant and the changes that occurred by the cooperation of social media in education. The researcher …
Knowledge Economy: Implications for Nigeria Education System
Abstract Knowledge economy has become more popular and inclusive in determining the economic prosperity and growth of nations not by supplanting industrial or resource economy but in globalizing knowledge about them and in the process revealing new techno-scientific approaches in their economic processes. This paper examines the nature of knowledge economy, the difference between information …
Revamping Indigenous Education and Afrocentric Curriculum for Effective Knowledge Economy in the 21st Century
Abstract Africa’s significant problem is economic. While this seems to ostensibly be only in terms of finance, it rather extends beyond that and permeates the process of knowledge generation. Globalization and the infusion of Western culture through Western education has afflicted Africa’s economy with a seemingly incurable malady. However, there is the neglect of localization, …
Education, Politics and Leadership: Re-Visiting Nigerian Experience
Abstract This paper analysed education, politics and leadership and tried to explore their interrelations. This is against the backdrop that they are commendatory concepts and enjoy wide usage by members of the public being very central to governance of the day from home to the larger society. It was established that they are all mutually …
Entrepreneurship Education as Panacea to Unemployment, Insecurity and Economic Challenges
Abstract This paper examined that entrepreneurship education is a panacea to existing unemployment, insecurity and economic problems that are menacing our society. It also argued that successful implementation of entrepreneurship education has the potentials of changing the mindset of teeming graduates towards becoming self-employed and self-reliant so as to be job creators than job seekers. …
Education Strategies and Economy Viability of Self Help in the 21st Century
Abstract The objective of the study is to examine educating strategies and economic viable of help self in the 21st century. The research method adopted for this study was logical reasoning. The study maintained that as a nation we ought to move beyond asking whether students can reproduce what they learned in school. The question …
Improving Pastoral Education Program for Sustainability in Nigerian Economy
Abstract This paper seeks to discuss the relevant of pastoral education program and its impact on Nigerian economy. Nigeria as a nation in Africa have been struggle to improve pastoral education program which was linked to her education system as a step forward towards improving sustainable economy and as well as to improve literacy rate …
Asuu’s Strike in Nigeria: Interrogating the Motive Behind the Struggle
Abstract The consideration of ASUU industrial demonstration in Nigeria in recent times generated a lot of controversies and attempts to discuss it objectively incised the debate into two extreme positions and neither of it carries universal consent among lecturers, students, federal government and the general public. In one, the motive is socio-political and the other …