Open AccessStandards Responsible for the Decline in Quality of Secondary Education in Nigeria
Author(s) -
Olalekan Elijah Ojedokun,
Francisca Aladejana
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v2n2p76
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , position (finance) , economic growth , secondary education , political science , business , pedagogy , sociology , economics , philosophy , epistemology , finance
The paper places secondary education in a strategic position in the Nigerian education system. It clarifies issues surrounding the misplacement of standard as against quality when examining the success or failure of secondary education on yearly basis. The paper concludes that the standard of education has not fallen in Nigeria, but that it is the quality of education that is vast declining and all stakeholders in the education have a lot of roles to play to get the quality back on track.