Students' Dilemma And The Careless System…

It’s unfortunate how we keep lamenting that the standard of education is declining when the right things are not in place.

We compare our products to that of other nations, we say they are foresighted and they do the best to improve the state of their countries but what do we have to say about our own education? What is on ground for the students? How do they learn well to be great, and to think of their nation?

Too many questions floating in my mind, but the one which I consider most salient is to ask if our nation ever sat down at any point in time to plan what the face of this nation’s educational system would look like. Was it a plan to give her an ugly face she is today carrying? And if that is the case, can’t we help out with a plastic surgery?

Go to our institutions today, your lips will drop into your hands out of amazement: hostels are bad, classes are nothing to write home about not to talk of unequipped laboratories, and where they are a little bit equipped, most are not functioning or too complex to be operated! I call friends outside our dear nation, they are most times connected, they get to relax well, and they have access to basic facilities like the laboratories, libraries, unfailing electricity, and constant water supply among others. We aren’t even asking for too much, if good wireless connection is too much, we want to rest well, we don’t want to sleep in rooms infested with all kind of insects one can ever think of, and we don’t need epileptic power supply at least to help us become somebody in life.

And if government is to reply now, they will say things like we attend to you, meet your administrators. The question then is: what are the school authorities doing to help the better living of students on campus? Did they also leave in bugged rooms? Were they always praying for water to run too? Or were they lucky to have power supply once a week too? One thing our institutions lack is proper management. Just look around, I am sure you will see my point. Everybody just wants to be there to brick their names on unforgettable walls while those who will take over are left unattended to.

Where are we then going?
From the pulsating pen of Tijani Sheriffdeen, a 200 level Anatomy student of the better by far university, University of Ilorin. A concerned student who wants the educational sector reshaped…