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The education system is divided into Kindergarten, Primary education, Secondary education, and Tertiary education. [4] Nigeria's federal government has been dominated by instability since declaring independence from Britain, and as a result, a unified set of education policies is yet to be successfully implemented. [ 5 ]
Nigeria Union of Teachers is a major trade union in Nigeria.It was formed to create a united front for practitioners of the teaching profession in the country. Major objectives of the union covers the improvement in economic conditions of teachers, an avenue for bringing forth ideas about the educational development of the country from the perspectives of teachers and general economic security ...
The National Teachers' Institute was founded in 1976 by the Federal Government of Nigeria in response to the country's urgent demand for educated and competent teaching staff at all levels of the educational system. [1] [2] In the NTI's NCE remote learning programs, 34,486 people graduated between 1993 and 1996. [3]
The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is mostly concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education.
NCCE defines minimum standards for all programmes of teacher education and accredit their certificates and other academic awards. [3] [4] NCCE was established by Decree 13 of 1989 to supervise all aspects of non-degree teacher education and teacher professionalism in Nigeria. On 1 January 1993, Decree No.12 amended the establishment Decree No ...
Nwauwa, Apollos O. Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans, 1860–1960 (London: Frank Cass, 1997). Ogunlade, Festus O. "Education and Politics in Colonial Nigeria: The Case of King's College, Lagos (1906–1911)." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 7#2 (1974): 325–345. Okafor, N.
The Law defines Basic education to include: "Early childhood care and development education, nine years of formal schooling (6 years of primary and 3 years of junior secondary education, adult literacy and non-formal education, skills acquisition programmes and the education of special groups such as nomads and migrants, girl-child and women ...
A History of Nigerian Higher Education, Macmillan. History of Education in Nigeria, 1970. ISBN 0-04-370047-0; New Perspectives in African Education, 1967; Education in Mother Tongue: The Ife Primary Education Research Project, 1970-1978 (Editor) Up and On: A Nigerian Teacher's Odyssey, 1991. ISBN 978-153-096-0