The national policy which was reviewed in 1981 stresses that education in Nigeria is no more a private business, but a big government investment that has witnessed a progressive evolution of government's complete and dynamic intervention and active participation.
This implies that the federal and state governments have realised that without a comprehensive and qualitative education, the country cannot achieve the goals of a nation in terms of political, economic, social, intellectual, technological and scientific development. Likewise, to neglect the education of its people is tossing with the lives of its people, and its own survival in the end. This had led various governments (state and federal) in Nigeria to commit enormous parts of education in the country. The governments have taken over the control of education at various levels. Education has also become an instrument of winning supporters by the politicians.
Rapid progress in the forms and systems of education in Nigeria started in 1960 and after the country's independence. This period started with the submission of the Ashby Report on Education in 1960 which gave Nigerian government an unlimited encouragement to increase her investment in all branches of education for the development of her manpower needs. The implementation of the recommendations contained in the report helped to expand Nigeria's educational system both in quality and quantity.
In a related development, the National Curriculum Conference, which stimulated the drafting of the National Policy on Education for the attainment of the National goals is another step in expanding the quality and quantity of education in the country.
Model Answer
In an attempt to discuss the phases in the growth of education in Nigeria, there is the need to explain the early attempt by the missionaries to provide education, the involvement of the colonial government in education, the changes that come up with independence in educational sector and all the post-independence blessings that are remarkable in the field of educational enterprise.
It is a well-known fact that the missionaries were the first providers of western education though in their own way with emphasis on the 3Rs that is reading, writing and computation all with a view to soften the process of evangelisation.
This implies that the federal and state governments have realised that without a comprehensive and qualitative education, the country cannot achieve the goals of a nation in terms of political, economic, social, intellectual, technological and scientific development. Likewise, to neglect the education of its people is tossing with the lives of its people, and its own survival in the end. This had led various governments (state and federal) in Nigeria to commit enormous parts of education in the country. The governments have taken over the control of education at various levels. Education has also become an instrument of winning supporters by the politicians.
Rapid progress in the forms and systems of education in Nigeria started in 1960 and after the country's independence. This period started with the submission of the Ashby Report on Education in 1960 which gave Nigerian government an unlimited encouragement to increase her investment in all branches of education for the development of her manpower needs. The implementation of the recommendations contained in the report helped to expand Nigeria's educational system both in quality and quantity.
In a related development, the National Curriculum Conference, which stimulated the drafting of the National Policy on Education for the attainment of the National goals is another step in expanding the quality and quantity of education in the country.
Tutor-marked Assignment.
Examine the factors that stimulate the formulation of Nigeria's National Policy on Education. Discuss the phases in the growth of education in Nigeria.Model Answer
In an attempt to discuss the phases in the growth of education in Nigeria, there is the need to explain the early attempt by the missionaries to provide education, the involvement of the colonial government in education, the changes that come up with independence in educational sector and all the post-independence blessings that are remarkable in the field of educational enterprise.
It is a well-known fact that the missionaries were the first providers of western education though in their own way with emphasis on the 3Rs that is reading, writing and computation all with a view to soften the process of evangelisation.
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