LIST OF REASONS

INTRO:   The reasons for the fall in the standard of education in Nigeria are parents’ failures, government’s failures, students’ failures, teachers’ failures, and schools ’ failures.  Standard of education is a multi-dimensional concept, but generally however, it entails the best of practices, status, products and contributions of education. This truism is observable in the variegated perspectives of authors and authorities discussing the indicators of falling standard of education in Nigeria. Some of the indicators include the decreased number of Nigerian graduates considered for admission in big universities in the developed world (Babalola 2006); the lower rank of Nigerian universities among other universities in the world; the unsettling lack of proficiency in written and spoken English by students; the massive failure of students in external examinations, etc. The central thread that ran through these indicators is that they have worsened from what they used to be, point...