As is usual with these little dramas, the devil is in the detail. According to the CEO of the National Examination Council, Prof. Promise Okpala, 16,050 of the 62,682 registrants were in Lagos State, Kebbi had 83 registrants, and Yobe had 74!
As is usual with these little dramas, the devil is in the detail. According to the CEO of the National Examination Council, Prof. Promise Okpala, 16,050 of the 62,682 registrants were in Lagos State, Kebbi had 83 registrants, and Yobe had 74!
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I see the point Cheta is making. The truth is that there are not enough private schools to cover for the shortfall.
Back in my time, it was like almost a million people sitting the Common Entrance. What happened that the number fell so hugely. Truth is that not nearly enough people in Nigeria can afford private schools, so if only 62000 out of 10 million registered for common entrance then we have a crisis.
We have always had a crisis in the educational sector.. Especially primary and secondary education. But I feel this decline in common entrance just shows the deep distrust and lack of confidence people have in common entrance exams.. Remember the states also run their own parallel entrance exams for state run schools which is where a huge majority of many poor people turn to as top unity schools became out of the reach of the common men. Those who can turn to mushroom dingy seedy private secondary which u find scattered all over Nigeria especially in rural areas. Our education system has been in need of massive reforms for over 20 years sadly it rarely makes the news.. Public universities were on strike for close to 6 month during OBJ reelection campaign but this never became an electoral issue. Not once was it raised. We as a nation do not value education or rate it high in priority list.. What we value is certification not the process towards attaining it. As write this the University of Abuja is in comatose with close to 60% of program losing their accreditation and the school has been closed down since for ever. But u won’t ever find this in the news. The top public school of our federal capital is moribund and it not even headline news. A reflection of our attitude towards education.
Wicked point. Maybe the numbers that Cheya has highlighted will be the kick on the but that we need. But I don’t believe that.
Err I think we should not reach a conclusion based on number of participants in common entrance if anything it just shows how much faith people have in government educational institutions (which its self is a bad thing) I remembered sitting for common entrance sometimes in the 90s but never checked my results because in the end it doesn’t matter I went to a private school. The private school option is what many Nigerians rich and poor are increasingly turning to. The irony is that even the Unity schools run by the feds offer a relatively much better standard of education at a government subsidized price compared to most of the seedy private school out there.. But getting into them is out of the reach of many common folks.. Most of the places are reserved for children of top politicians or connected Nigerians (at least allocations for the good unity schools)..
Yes the state of our education is appalling plaqued by corruption mismanagement especially public education that doesn’t change.. But what this figure shows is that general public’s confidence on public education has gotten to a new low especially secondary school level.