INTRODUCTION
The concept of “lowering the level of education” is a relative term, since there are no clearly defined instruments for measuring it with the utmost reliability and authenticity. That is why scientific views on concept options. These scholars view it from different points of view, depending on the angle that each of them looks at.
Babalola, A (2006) examines the concept of accepting products from a Nigerian university in universities in developed countries. The fact that the first six Nigerian universities (University of Ibadan, Ile-Ife, Lagos, Benin, Nsukka and Zarya) had their products that compete favorably with any other university in the world because their products were accepted by Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and London for admission to graduate school. The fact that these students record record results and when they graduate work in the best multinational companies and corporate organizations around the world, unlike today, when Nigerian university is not among the 6,000 universities in the world (Adeniyi, Bello (2008) in Why no worry about rating). He sees how universities contribute to the knowledge and solve the problems facing humanity.
According to Gateway to the Nation (2010), the University of Ibadan occupies the 6th 340th university in the world. In Africa, the University of Ibadan is ranked 57th, and in Africa, it is the 69th and South African universities.
He also uses written and spoken English as a criterion for measuring the level of education that the University of London conducted in West Africa, and the result showed that teachers trained by colonial masters were better than those trained by local teachers.
He also used staffing, funding, foundation, backgrounds and students as a standard of education.
The education standard for Dike, V. (2003) is how education contributes to public health (or the socio-political and economic development of a nation).
The standard of study is either passing or rejecting external exams, such as WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, JAMB, (NOW UTME) among others.
Teachers without Borders (2006) study the educational standard on how to evaluate school products in terms of income. Thus, school graduates contribute to society in terms of cognitive affective and psychomotor factors. I will use pupils to address both pupils and pupils; I will use the chief to address the principal and the principal.
Whatever way you choose the standard of education, so that you can conclude whether the standard is falling or not, you must take into account all of the above variables, including the achievement of educational goals.
Similarly, for justice, which should be performed when measuring these standards, you need to look at reliability, where all measured schools should have the same infrastructure, teaching materials, quality of teachers, level and degree of students, the state in which learning takes place, some assessment methods and some types of contributions to society among others.
CAUSES FALLING STANDARDS
Haven discussed what constitutes a standard in education, can I crave your indulgence for some of the established facts that set the fall in education in Nigeria.
(1) Discipline: This is one of the outstanding attributes of education when it is fairly observed.
a. Repetition: the school ceases to repeat the observer, as each student advances to the next class, wherever they understand or do not give a place to drop the standard.
b. Attendance: 75% of the attendance generally accepted as the basis for someone who sits on the exam is no longer observed.
from. Late arrival: a student who is late is no longer punished, which leads to their loss of morning lessons.
e. Incorrect behavior: students are no longer punished for bad behavior due to their parental influences (loss of work or unnecessary transmission).
e. Culture: This may refer to rituals, usually under oath, connecting members with a common course. They secretly monitor the implementation of their tasks at the expense of other people. Thus, the planning of secondary needs above the primary needs.
These cults exist because of an excessive population of students in schools, irregular incomes that are not based on merit, therefore fear of exam failures and selfish worldly gains.
(2) Quest for paper qualification: Nigerians respect paper qualifications above field performance. Here it is assumed that the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains should be measured on the field.
(3) The politicization of education: “Merit is no longer seen as now,“ who you know, ”and not“ what you can deliver ”(technocrats (educators are not appointed commissioner of education and education).
(4) Policy problem: Sometimes the type of policy that the government does on education negatively affects graduation. For example, in the College of Education, we have the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), competing with JAMB for admission, because the two guides are different.
Equally, WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, JAMB (now UTME) compete with the qualifications prerequisites and regulation of admission to higher education institutions.
(5) Teachers are not included in the examination bodies. I wonder if the constant assessment provided by these teachers is used or not.
(6) School availability: The Nigerian demographic boom outperformed existing schools because existing schools are forced to admit this.
This moment can practically be seen in the following areas:
(i) The teacher-student ratio 1:25 no longer exists, as in my class, it is 1: 3900.
(ii) The ratio of students / books / journals 1:10 is no longer possible.
(iii) Admission policy: schools can no longer set targets for admission according to their abilities, since powerful notes from above will force the school authorities to either allow or re-enter the labor market. Nevertheless, it is those who give these notes that presumably create more schools or provide the necessary infrastructure, etc. To accommodate those who collect these notes.
(7) Depends on the cognitive domain: Schools do not belong to the affective area that will shape the characters of our young people. Little attention is paid to the psychomotor, while attention to the affective area is not paid.
(8) Lack of qualified teachers: in some schools in rural areas, only the principal is a public servant, and the rest, who may come from secondary school, are employees of the PTA. What miracle can these employees perform? Dike, V. (2006) noted that only 23% of the 400,000 primary schools in Nigeria are Level II, even when the NSE is now the minimum qualification for teachers in primary and junior high schools.
(9) The well-being of teachers: this is no longer news
(a) Politicians do not have a negotiating board for salary negotiations.
(b) There are no differences between political officials from federal, state and local governments.
c) their salons are increased in an astronomical manner.
(d) Their wages increase at any time, without resorting to whether the country's economy can bear it or not.
(e) But for teachers, they must agree on a 10–20% attempt to increase their salaries to reflect the country's economy. How these teachers can contribute and work a miracle when their family members are in hospitals and OS syndrome is written on their cards by pharmacists while they have no money for treatment.
(10) Constant blows: this is an obstacle to a smooth coverage of the curriculum. Oefule (2009) explained that one Nigerian guest asked a question about a strike in the community of Oxford University, but the vice-chancellor could not even recall the strike, only the registrar remembered it 17 years ago. This is what drives people.
(11) Long rule of the military; Education was not properly funded by the military regimes, because, according to Babalole, A (2006), the Obasanjos administration inherited many of the remaining problems of the military, such as non-payment of pensions and benefits to retired University staff, poor remuneration of university staff, dilapidated school buildings, outdated libraries obsolete laboratory equipment, poor campus roads, insufficient water and energy supply.
(12) In secondary and primary schools, schools do not even have smaller buildings than furniture, equipment and reading materials. This is the level at which the foundation of education should be laid. Any defective foundation will result in faulty structures. What do you expect from the tertiary level?
(13) Lack of teacher training: Teachers are not trained to update their knowledge with the latest discoveries based on research, how can they give what they don’t have?
14 The low state of educational institutions: Dike V. (2006) reported that the research results show that in 2015, primary schools in Nigeria do not have the potential, but study under the trees, less talking about educational materials.
(15) Corruption: school leaders and some government officials either indulge in purchasing equipment with borrowed money that cannot be used at school or take out such loans or even do anything about it.
(16) Poor budget allocations for education: the 2001 research shows that Nigeria alone allocates less than 20% of education, and later it shows that Nigeria spends 0.76% on education, while Uganda does - 2, 6%, Tanzania - 3.4%, Mozambique - 4.1%, Angola - 4.9%, Cottage Ivore - 5%, Kenya - 6.5%, South Africa - 7.9%.
WHO WILL BE FAST?
We have seen the reasons for the fall in standards, and from these reasons we can conclude that the following should be blamed:
1. The government intends to carry the lion’s share of the blame because all other variables are dependent variables.
2. Teachers also have their share of the blame for their bona fide duties.
3. Parents: feeding must be provided by parents. This is because parents do not leave school to work without intervention.
4. Students: students who do not comply with the rules and regulations of the school, do not pay attention to their research, also contribute to lower standards. Students are also looking for paper-based qualifications and ignore performance; they also participate in cult activities that disrupt the success of the academy.
5. Society is not excluded, as it sees and respects the products of these schools, which are coming back.
DECISION
Based on the problems or causes mentioned above, the following solutions are proposed: schools must respect and restore discipline in order to regain the lost glory of our educational standards.
Efficiency should be considered and respected more than just paper qualification. Similarly, education should not be politicized for any reason.
Politicians should be aware of policies that affect the regulation of education .eg JAMB (UTME) upon admission.
Teachers should participate in examination activities, and exam bodies should always publish exam reports and distribute them in different schools, so that they conduct a school workshop to train subject teachers in their areas of weakness experienced by students. scripts according to the labeling scheme.
To expand accessibility for all, more schools need to be created. To assess students, you should use the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain.
Teachers and # 39; The government should give priority to avoid unnecessary strikes in our education sector, while more qualified teachers should be used to educate the current shortage of teachers in our schools.
Our civilian government must prove to the people that they are better than the military government.
Teachers should be trained in such a way that they can meet any new tasks. Educational institutions should be modernized to modern standards, while educational institutions should be adequately provided for.
Corruption must be eliminated to the lowest level by all interested parties, while the government must increase its budget allocations for education in order to improve education in Nigeria.
