Education is key and the bedrock of every nation’s life and so, the government must invest more in it and not show non-chalant attitude to the sector.
It is often said that knowledge is power. This implies that people with sound knowledge will, in the long run, be better placed to decide what happens to the society than those blindly chasing wealth, power and position without solid academic background.
Government must prioritize education to ensure consistent intervention and equitable disbursement of funds for the provision and maintenance of essential physical infrastructure for conducive teaching and learning in Nigerian tertiary institutions.
Imperatively, without quality education system and an educated workforce, no country can succeed economically.
Most importantly, government should ensure that salaries and emoluments of lecturers are paid as at when due, to avert issues that could lead to incessant strikes. Lecturers must be frequently sponsored for training and retraining, to upgrade their academic and professional standard.
Hemense Kuhe (Student)
Teaching and learning in tertiary institutions, obviously need to be stepped up because education remains the only critical tool for achieving national aspirations. Government should pay absolute attention to education at all levels, particularly in the tertiary institutions, by prioritizing the welfare of those in the sector. Lecturers should be subjected to compulsory training and retraining so that they would be motivated to bring out their best for the students.
Another way is by building classrooms, laboratories and hostels that are well equipped with modern facilities. There are still some higher institutions of learning in this century where you would find 200 students receiving instructions in a lecture hall that was designed to accommodate a maximum of 60 students and hostels meant for six students, now housing about 12 students, and this is not a healthy development. There are teaching aids and other facilities for teaching and learning that many students including the lecturers, have not seen but were only taught in theories which the government can afford, if only there is the political will.
Miss Patience Nguhemen Iorkase(Student)
Teaching and learning are inseparable because they complement each other in every way. Various methods have been used in teaching students of higher institutions in Nigeria, in attempts to give an overview of the concept of lecturing method as against teaching method in tertiary institutions as a strategy for effective teaching and learning.
A survey conducted among selected teaching staff, revealed that lecturing method of teaching is very prominent and commonly used than any other kind of teaching strategy. In all strata of Nigerian educational system, there is a manifest problem of inadequate qualified teachers, rise in student’s enrollment as well as inadequate teaching facilities. These and others are among the factors responsible for the popularity of lecturing method in Nigerian tertiary institutions.
So they should declare an emergency on professionalism in the teaching career that would suggest capacity building of the non professional teachers through staff training and development. This would enable students to be critic and utilize information meaningfully.
Andrew Terdoo Marcel (Student)
Improving teaching and learning in tertiary institutions of learning requires huge resources, because it does not have to do with just the well-being of the man in the lecture hall lecturing as it had been misconstrued by many.
Much attention should be given to the lecturer, in order for them to have the zeal and enthusiasm, and to also have the excitement for the job. Having affection for what you do is not just the greatest motivation but also the highest fulfillment as well.
There is nothing as amazing and totally satisfying as doing what you had always wanted.
However, in Nigeria today, it is rare to find people who do what they had always wanted doing. Nigerians are at the stage of their nation’s history when tertiary institutions teachers need to be reminded that they have a crucial responsibility of guiding and moulding students into responsible citizens. And students on the on other hand be made to known that western education is not for everyone, there are other choices that one can stick to as a means of livelihood.
Queen Kertyo (Student)
Teaching should not be in a way of confusing the students or creating an atmosphere of intellectual relativism, what that means is that lecturers should make concerted efforts to creating conditions which all the voices could speak and be heard.
Lecturers of tertiary institutions should have true love for their profession and students should develop intense concentration because teaching is a teacher-student-relationship and as such, you cannot talk about one and leave the other. Lecturers should also have driving desire to improve on their communications skills. A lecturer ought to have strong communication skills because no matter how knowledgeable he or she is, if they are not able to listen to students and transmit what they had, it becomes useless.
And both lecturers and students need to imbibe a culture of patience in order to achieve effective learning. They should be conscious of the fact that they came from different backgrounds and try as much as possible to have good interpersonal relationship.
Mr Joseph Iorhemen (Self Employed)
Discussion methods should be introduced across our higher institutions of learning as it is said to be more democratic by nature. It is inclusive, participatory and holds the key for empowering learners to be critical thinkers, it is argued that discussion method for teaching in classrooms possesses the power to stimulate quiet and shy looking learners open up, think, participate and follow the instructions offered during discussions in the classroom. Discussion or interactive method of lecturing creates an equal playing field for students to think critically and concentrate during lectures so that they would not be left behind.
Government on its part should subsidize education in many ways including tuition fees for people of lower status to also afford. Quality education fights poverty in the society and any nation that has got higher percentage of educated elites is automatically a rich country. So government should continually regulate tertiary institutions particularly the private ones, to ensure that they keep to the standard and objectives of their establishments. Owners of private institutions should be made to understand that schools are not for profit-making ventures.
Magdaline Kwaghdoo Ver (Student)