Deployment of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Effective Security Management in Nigerian Educational System

The educational institutions require various resources for the implementation of their programme. Information communication technology have been adopted as one of such greatest resources for effective school administration, supervision, planning and security. Many developed countries across the world have deployed ICT for school security. However, in Nigeria, with the rate of educational institutions attack by Bandits, insurgents and Boko haram, many scholars have called on the government to deploy ICT for security management in the country especially in the educational institutions. This paper examined the deployment of ICT for effective schools management. ICT facilities that can be deployed and the challenges hindering effective deployment of ICT for effective schools management in Nigeria. The paper concluded that making some recommendations for sustainable ICT deployment for school security management in Nigeria. Secondary data were used to support the various points raised in the paper. The secondary data were sourced from print and online published and unpublished papers

Effects of Corruption on Basic Education Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward

Corruption in Nigeria is a hydra-headed and multi-facet problem that ramifies every sector of our national life and the education sector has not being innocent. Corruption have penetrated the Nigerian education system including the Basic education administration. This article discussed the effect of corruption on Basic education administration in Nigeria. Secondary data were used to support the points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from print material and online publication by recognized institutions and individual authors. This paper identified; shortage of funds, inadequate teachers, shortage of infrastructural facilities, poor quality of education, large out of school children, poor capacity development, poor implementation of Basic education policies and increase in the cost of Basic education administration as the effects of corruption on Basic education administration in Nigeria. To address these problems, the paper suggested that the government among other suggestion should establish anti-corruption units in the ministries and agencies of education to help check mate corrupt practices among staff and ensure regular auditing of commissions, agencies and ministries of education account could help check financial corruption within the system

Science Education in Nigerian Public Universities: Challenges and Way Forward

Science education is faced with many problems in the Nigerian public universities and this is affecting the development of science education at the various public universities across the country.This presentation discusses the challenges facing teaching of science education in the Nigerian public universities. Secondary and primary data were sourced and used to support the points raised in the presentation. Inadequate funding, inadequate science lecturers, shortage of infrastructural facilities, Brain-drain, poor research, strike action and corruption were identified as challenges facing the teaching of science education in the Nigerian public universities. Adequate funding of science programme in the public universities, employment of more science lecturers, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, increasing the funding of research programme in sciences, increasing the salaries of academic staff to prevent brain-drain and to motivate the lecturers, implement agreement reached with the unions in the universities and corruption in the universities should be fought using the various anti-corruption agencies in the country were recommended as the ways forward for the development of science education in Nigeria public universities

Causes, Effects and Remedies of Examination Malpractice Among Senior Secondary School Students in Osun State

The study investigated the causes, effects and remedies of examination malpractice among senior secondary school students in Osun State. In other to achieve the objectives of the study, four research questions were raised. The population of the study consisted of ten thousand, eight hundred and thirty- four SSII students (10,834) of three hundred and twenty- one senior secondary schools in Osun State. The sample size of the study was 707 drawn across 32 senior secondary schools in Boripe, Ifelodun and Odo-Otin Federal Constituencies in Osun State. The instrument used was questionnaire on causes, effects and remedies of examination malpractice on senior secondary school students (CEREMSSSS). Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was found to be 0.80. The findings of this study showed that there is no significant difference in the opinion of male and female students on causes, effects and remedies of examination malpractice. The students strongly agreed that inadequate instructional resources for effective teaching, inadequate qualified teachers, curriculum contents being too wide, inability of teachers to finish scheme of work and inability of teachers to combine examination syllabus with teaching syllabus are the major causes of examination malpractice. They also strongly agreed that when students are students are well taught and assessed, when examination supervision is properly done, when more qualified teachers are employed, and more infrastructure and teaching materials are provided, examination malpractice would be curbed. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made: More qualified teachers should be employed, infrastructure and instructional materials should be adequate, supervision of examination should be properly done and corrupt examination officials, and school management, teachers and students should be thoroughly punished based on examination malpractice act. Government should also deemphasize possession of paper certificates and lay serious emphasis on skill acquisition, where parents should continue to encourage their children to study and not be the one taking them to miracle centers