Re-evaluating the Factors confronting Quality Education in Secondary Schools in Delta State
- October 15, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS Team
- Categories: Education, IJRIAS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS) | Volume V, Issue IX, September 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Re-evaluating the Factors confronting Quality Education in Secondary Schools in Delta State
EMORDI, Promise Jude1, Nwamaka, Patricia Ibeme (PhD) 2, NNAMANI, Victus Sunday3, AUGUSTA, C.Okonkwo4
1&4 Post-Graduate Students; Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
2 Department of Public Administration, National Open University, Nigeria
3 Department of Public Administration,University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Abstract: Since the return to democracy in 1999, Delta Sate is yet to achieve its grand quest of free quality education for its indigenes. Rather, the war against illiteracy, students drop-out, teachers strike actions and other insecurity challenge that distorts the realization of quality education in public secondary schools remains unabated. The study examined emerging and existing factors that confront the realization of quality education in secondary schools in Delta State. Methodologically, the study strictly utilized the documentary method and data were sourced through the secondary sources and analyzed in content. The study found that insecurity and global health crisis as emerging factors will worsen the existing leaning inequalities among secondary school students in Delta State. Also, if these emerging factors are not tamed, they will solidify with the existing factors to thwart government efforts towards achieving quality education in the State. The study recommended among others: that the ministry of Basic Education in synergy with other stakeholders should fence and provide security personnel to porous schools.
Keywords: Insecurity, Public Schools, Austere policies, Students, illiteracy, Delta State
I. INTRODUCTION
The quality of education that is obtainable in a given country can make or mar the quest for national development. This is because; education remains the only catalyst for national development. As such, the wheels of development and human civilization are largely connected to the contributions of the education sector around the world. Quality education to a very large extent, determine the level of development in a country’s educational system in particular and in the level of a country’s national development in general. Thus, a reduction in quality education will constitute a bane towards the realization of National Development and a defeat as regards the war against illiteracy and poverty
The education system in Nigeria in general and in Delta State in particular, is made up of public and private Schools. The public schools are managed and financed either by the Federal, States or Local Government authorities through tax payer’s money. While, the private schools are those owned and managed in compliance to educational policies in Nigeria by either private individuals or religious bodies.
