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A Critical Review of Problems Facing Higher Education in North-East Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria

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CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY, (2022)

Abstract

Higher education is the education after secondary school education. One of its objectives is for human resources development and training. Higher institutions in Nigeria are spread across the entire geo-political zone. The North- East political zone is home to many higher institutions both private and public. The public higher institutions in the zone are faced with many problems. This paper examined the problems public higher institutions are facing in North- East political zone of Nigeria. Qualitative and quantitative data were used in the paper. The concluded that, inadequate funding, insecurity, shortage of academic staff, corruption, inadequate infrastructural facilities, Brain-drain and strike actions were some of the problems higher institutions in the North- East political zone were faced with. In order to address these problems, the paper recommended that both federal and state government should increase the funding of public higher institutions in the region, more academic staff should be recruited and more infrastructure facilities should be provided. Lecture should be motivated and agreement reached with trade unions should be implemented and anti-corruption agencies should be deployed to higher institutions in the zone with aims of fighting corruption in the institutions.

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