Good evening, i sat down this evening and i decided to write on my views on Nigerian Education system and why it's not attracting international/foreign students. Below are my views
1. THE NEED TO SCRAP SOME EXAMINATION BODY : You won't expect an International student applying to Nigeria tertiary institutions from countries like Lesotho, Togo, Congo, Kenya, Costa Rica etc to come down to Nigeria and get JAMB form. In a sane country, each universities has her own way of screening students before admitting them. The screening are usually based on essays or something else, Then after being admitted student might be screened using entrance examination just to know the department that would work for his/her.
2. REMOVAL OF SELF/GOVERNMENT INTEREST : Nigeria Government/school bodies increase school fees in a bid to favouring their sole interest, students then respond to the school fee Hike by shutting down the school all in name of aluta. No International students would want to study in country that would turn four years course to seven years, they need not come to Nigeria to know how Nigeria Tertiary Institutions strike even more than football strikers, like; "Delima Ronaldo, Messi, Christian Ronaldo, Di Maria or Emineke/ Osaze".
3. GOVERNMENT SHOULD FUND OUR INSTITUTIONS : Government needs to fund our tertiary institutions and invest more towards renovating the school infrastructures, you won't expect international students to apply to schools with little or no good infrastructure.
4. INSTITUTIONS NEED TO CREATE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PORTAL : Have gone through almost 20 Nigeria universities websites and non have portal for international students to apply, even schools in Ghana and South Africa do. Have they lost the hope that Nigerian Education system could attract international students?. It is high time our institutions created international students portal. Not just to attract international students but also attracts foreign scholarship partners.
- E.A. Adeyemi.
