Quality Assurance in Nigeria’s Education System: Prospect and Challenges
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https://doi.org/10.35877/454RI.eduline422Keywords:
Quality, Quality assurance, Education, NigeriaAbstract
The study was conducted with the aim of establishing the relevance and challenges affecting quality assurance in Nigerian education system. Secondary data analysis methodology was adopted for the study. To easily achieve the objectives, the concept of quality assurance, strategies for building quality assurance into the education system and parameters for measuring quality assurance and challenges were discussed. The study identified some challenges affecting quality assurance to include shortage of funds, insecurity, policy inconsistency, and lack of regular training of staff etc. The paper concludes that since the essence of education is to make an individual useful quality assurance strategies should be monitored and evaluated on regular basis in order to improve the quality of the educational system in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends amongst others improved funding of the education sector, regular training and retraining of staff and provision of adequate security for learning environment in the country as a way forward.
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Agih, A. A., (2015). Effective school management and supervision: Imperative for quality education service delivery. International Multidisciplinary Journal, Ethiopia; 9(3), 62-74.
Ajayi, I. A. & Akindurite, I. O. (2007). The unresolved issues of quality assurance in Nigeria universities. Journal of Sociology and Education in Africa.6 (1), 17 – 22
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Amoor, S.S., (2010). The need to improve teacher quality in business education programme in Nigerian universities. Int. J. Edu. Res., 11(1): 42-51.
Anioke, B.O., (2013). Towards the changing role of the contemporary office: challenges of quality assurance in skills development in colleges of education. Nigerian Journal of Business Education.1 (2), 57-67.
Asiyai, R.I. (2015). Improving quality higher education in Nigeria: The roles of stakeholders. International Journal of Higher Education, 4(1), 61-70
Chidobi, R. U., & Eze-Thecla, A. Y., (2016). Utilization of the quality assurance handbook in secondary school supervision of instruction in Enugu state, Nigeria. World Journal of Education. 6(4); 30-37
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Mogbeyiteren, O.L.B., Azeez, T.A., & Abina, A.P., (2019).Impacts of quality assurance in managing education in Nigerian schools. International Journal of Innovative Education Research. 7(4), 131-138.
Njoku, L.N., (2016). Nigeria educational development and need for quality sustenance, thesis for B.A.Degree in international studies in education. School of education, University of Iceland
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Obadara, O. E. & Alaka, A. A. (2013). Accreditation and quality assurance in Nigerian universities. Journal of Education and Practice.4 (3), 34-41.
Odo, S.N., (2015).Achieving quality assurance in business education in Nigerian colleges of education; Journal of Teaching and Education, 4(3), 415–422.
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Okoli, N.J. (2016).University education system problems in Nigeria: Issues and Prospects. In M. Omolewa (Ed.). Discourse on the state of education in Nigeria (217-225). Ibadan: Laurel Educational Publishers Ltd.
Okoro, J.,(2015). Strategies for enhancing quality assurance in business teacher education programme in Nigerian universities: Journal of Education and Practice.6 (12), 202-209
Okoro, C.O., & Oguguam, C.N., (2017). Strategies for transformation of higher education towards enhanced productivity in Nigeria. The role of quality assurance. European Scientific Journal, 13(10), 137-148.
Okoye, K.R.E., & Ashibogwu, N.K.,(2018).Strategies considered effective by business educators for quality assurance in business education programme in universities in South-South Nigeria; European Journal of Business and Management.10(2),43-48
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Onyesom, M., & Ashibogwu, N.K., (2013) Towards Quality Assurance in Business Education in Nigeria: Constraints and control. Asian Journal of Business Management. 5 (3), 306-312.
Oyewumi, C. F., & Fatoki O. R., (2015).Quality assurance in teachers’ education in Kwara State: Challenges and the way forward. Merit Research Journal of Education and Review .3(2), 119-125
Pavel, A.P., (2012). The importance of quality in higher education in an increasingly knowledge-driven society. International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences.2 (1), 120-127.
Thom-Otuya, B. E. N., & Inko-Tariah, D. C. (2016). Quality education for national development: The Nigerian experience. African Educational Research Journal, 4(3), 101-108
UNESCO (2020). Education: From disruption to recovery. https://plus.google.com/+UNESCO (2020-03-04)
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Usman, M., (2020).Youth banditry in northern Nigeria: An eagle eye on the security and socio-economic impacts. Lapai International Journal of Politics.6 (1), 10-20
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Zunaed, C., (2011). Quality assurance of business education in Bangladesh. http://zunaed.blogspot.com/
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2021-08-29
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Usman, Y. D., & Chinyere, M. G. (2021). Quality Assurance in Nigeria’s Education System: Prospect and Challenges. EduLine: Journal of Education and Learning Innovation, 1(2), 76–83. https://doi.org/10.35877/454RI.eduline422
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