IJEFSD
Vol. 3 No. 9 (2021): IJEFSD

Science Education in Nigerian Public Universities: Challenges and Way Forward

Okwelogu, Izunna Somadina (Unknown)
Jacob, Ogunode Niyi (Unknown)
Abayomi O, Ayinde (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Sep 2021

Abstract

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.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJEFSD

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

International Journal on Economics, Finance and Sustainable Development (IJEFSD) is an international, peer-reviewed, and scholarly journal aimed at being a platform for interdisciplinary researchers across the globe to develop and advance both theory and practice of economics and finance while ...