Science Education in Nigerian Public Universities: Challenges and Way Forward

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dc.creatorOkwelogu, Izunna Somadina
dc.creatorJacob, Ogunode Niyi
dc.creatorAbayomi O, Ayinde
dc.date2021-09-25
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T07:57:00Z
dc.date.available2023-08-21T07:57:00Z
dc.descriptionScience education is faced with many problems in the Nigerian public universities and this is affecting the development of science education at the various public universities across the country.This presentation discusses the challenges facing teaching of science education in the Nigerian public universities. Secondary and primary data were sourced and used to support the points raised in the presentation. Inadequate funding, inadequate science lecturers, shortage of infrastructural facilities, Brain-drain, poor research, strike action and corruption were identified as challenges facing the teaching of science education in the Nigerian public universities. Adequate funding of science programme in the public universities, employment of more science lecturers, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, increasing the funding of research programme in sciences, increasing the salaries of academic staff to prevent brain-drain and to motivate the lecturers, implement agreement reached with the unions in the universities and corruption in the universities should be fought using the various anti-corruption agencies in the country were recommended as the ways forward for the development of science education in Nigeria public universities.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJEFSD/article/view/2174
dc.identifier10.31149/ijefsd.v3i9.2174
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.umsida.ac.id/handle/123456789/15352
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherResearch Parks Publishing LLCen-US
dc.relationhttps://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJEFSD/article/view/2174/2100
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2021 International Journal on Economics, Finance and Sustainable Developmenten-US
dc.sourceInternational Journal on Economics, Finance and Sustainable Development; Vol. 3 No. 9 (2021): IJEFSD; 38-45en-US
dc.source2620-6269
dc.source2615-4021
dc.source10.31149/ijefsd.v3i9
dc.subjectScience Educationen-US
dc.subjectChallengesen-US
dc.subjectPublic Universitiesen-US
dc.titleScience Education in Nigerian Public Universities: Challenges and Way Forwarden-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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