No doubt, 2015 is a decisive year for Nigeria when the citizens will be on the march again to elect leaders for the country. So it is for the education sector as many unresolved issues of previous year will determine the progress or otherwise of the sector this year. Though stakeholders in their review of the out-gone year scored the sector below average on many fronts, others are of the opinion that government should consolidate on the gains in some sector, seek new ideas in some areas and fully implement pockets of outstanding agreements with the labour unions. In this report, Correspondent Oyeniran Apata examines some of the key issues that played out in 2014 that government at all levels, considering their assigned constitutional roles, probably attended to with little drive or left out rightly unattended to.
Underfunding of tertiary institutions
...