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Science Education in Nigerian Public Universities: Challenges and Way Forward Okwelogu, Izunna Somadina; Jacob, Ogunode Niyi; Abayomi O, Ayinde
International Journal on Economics, Finance and Sustainable Development Vol. 3 No. 9 (2021): IJEFSD
Publisher : Research Parks Publishers

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31149/ijefsd.v3i9.2174

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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.
Administration of Chemistry Programme in Nigerian Higher Institutions: Problems and way Forward Okwelogu, Izunna Somadina; Niran, Oladokun Benjamen; Jacob, Ogunode Niyi
International Journal on Integrated Education Vol. 4 No. 11 (2021): IJIE
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31149/ijie.v4i11.2375

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Chemistry programme is one of the programme offered in the Nigerian higher institutions. It is a programme that is science inclined and vital to the social economic and technological advancement of Nigeria. The article discussed the challenges facing the administration of Chemistry programme in the Nigerian higher institutions. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from printed material and online publication by recognized institutions and individual author. The article identified the following: inadequate funding of chemistry programme, shortage of chemistry lecturers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, strike actions and poor staff training as the challenges facing the administration of chemistry programme in the Nigerian higher institutions. To solve these challenges, this article recommends the following: government should increase the funding of chemistry programme in higher institutions, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, ensure stable academic programme, employment of more chemistry lecturers and motivation of lecturers to prevent brain-drain.
Co-Authors Abayomi O, Ayinde Jacob, Ogunode Niyi Niran, Oladokun Benjamen