Nigeria: Addressing the Gap in Teacher, Pupil Ratio

The teacher/pupil ratio in schools across the country has always been a source of worry to successive administrations whether at the federal, state and local government level. Since the commencement of the free education at the dawn of the Third Republic, free education seems to have become the mantra of many political office seekers and political parties. It has become so deafening to the extent that even those seeking for election into the National and State Houses of Assembly also promise to introduce free education as soon as they were elected. Several years down the line, the promises may have seen to the enrolment of more students into the primary and post primary schools in the country with the larger number found in the Southern region of the country.

But as the number of students increased in this region, there has not been a commensurate increase in the structures put in place to make teaching and learning worthy, rather, the environment has discouraged many potential students from continuing or enrolling to learn to read and write. Most of the primary and post primary schools are in various stages of dilapidation across the states of the federation and the heads of the various governments seemed to be helpless and looking up to heaven for a clue as to help solve the riddle.

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