Article,
Higher Education in Nigeria: Problems and Solutions
CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY, (2022)
Abstract
This paper discussed the problems faced by the higher education in Nigeria. Many literatures were sorted and reviewed from both primary and secondary sources. These resources were from both physical libraries and online literatures. The paper identified that inadequate funding, inadequate academic staff, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, insecurity, strike actions, corruption, political influence, Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and inadequate data to plan, were the major problems facing the development of higher education in Nigeria. Many suggestions were advanced to solve these problems such as increment in higher education funding, employment of more academic staff, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, motivation of academic staff, provision of adequate security in all higher institutions, generation of current higher education data and granting autonomy to the higher institutions especially the universities to prevent political influences in the system.
