Outdated curricula as a challenge to accessing quality education in Nigeria - by Akorede Surajudeen
It is no news that, quality education is a goal seeming almost unachievable in most third world countries. Ranging from lack of infrastructural incentives, financial insecurities, inadequate funding priorities and technical incapacities, many developing countries had been struggling to balance their educational system. Of these backlashes, the most chronic one frustrating educational development in Nigeria is the problem of outdated curricula and conservative learning process. If facts and figures are to be followed, the educational curricula presently being utilized in Nigeria is obviously far older than the country itself. These curriculums are vivid remnants of the imperial educational system passed down by the British colonial government sixty years ago, and to a large extent are still very much in use even when the original authors had constantly been revising theirs so to suit contemporary demands. Nigeria currently practices a 25 year old educational system call...