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Item Education and youth re-orientation: a panacea for lasting peace in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region(Serials Publications, New Delhi, India, 2009-06) Isah, E. A.; Babayemi, B. A.The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been a hot bed of political and economic agitations in the last 10 years. Though the agitations which began in 1966 by late Major Adaka Boro has in the last decade assumed wider significant dimensions which threatens the peaceful coexistence of the One hundred and fifty million Nigerian that live in the entity called Nigeria. The causes of agitation is traceable to the availability of rich oil and gas deposits in the Niger Delta region accounting for almost 90% of Nigeria’s gross total foreign exchange earnings in the last four decades. Despite the abundance of these resources, the region has felt marginalized and requested for a fair share of the nations resources. The military with its totalitarian nature in previous Nigerian governments have often scuttled every attempt for legitimate agitation. The advent of Democracy in Nigeria in 1999 resurfaced the struggle for resource control in the region. This paper reviews the cause of the Niger Delta struggle seen as political marginalization, social deprivation and economic exploitation in a federating environment. Solutions featuring political solutions, economic evolution and social regeneration of the region have been recommended. Useful suggestions to educational planners have been provided.Item Managing schools in periods of global economic meltdown(2009-06) Fabunmi, M.; Isah, E. A.This study involves an analysis of the possible impact of the current global economic meltdown on the management of schools. Economic meltdown is used to refer to economic recession; and school management is used in this paper in two senses. It is used to refer to the group of elites that administer a school; and also to refer to the use of available resources in a school through team efforts to achieve the educational objectives of the school. The immediate effect of economic meltdown on organisations is the inability to maintain the current productive capacity owing to inadequate fund. This explains why companies are either reducing their sizes or closing down. It raises the possible implication of governments’ control measures, such as the cutting down of expenditure which may likely affect educational expenditure. Definitely this will be having an adverse effect on the school system as statutory allocations to schools may cease or be reduced. The school system may also close down if it gets to the extreme, hence the need to begin strategizing against such unpleasant situations. The school management needs to look for alternative systems of funding and guide against financial impropriety. Otherwise, the school system will collapse.Item Effectiveness of computer-based instructional technologies in an African university: policy implications for university education in Nigeria(Department of Adult Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2008-06) Fabunmi, M.; Ayene-Neku, A.; Isah, E. A.; Fabunmi, S. O.In Nigeria, university authorities appear not to lay adequate emphasis on the application of computer information technologies to teaching. The needed equipment is not often available. Most lecturers do not have the needed computer skills. This study, therefore, investigated the extent to which computer-based instructional technologies could enhance teaching and learning effectiveness with a view to making recommendations to policy makers and university authorities in the country on the need to provide and use Computer-Based Instructional Technologies (CBIT) to teach in at universities. The study adopted survey research design and used the multi-stage sampling procedure to select six out of thirteen faculties and 300 out of 1,156 lecturers at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. A questionnaire was developed for data collection. The multiple regressions were used to analyze data, using a 0.05 level of significance. Result revealed that the application of Computer-Based Instructional Technologies to teaching contributed significantly to teaching effectiveness.Item Attaining sustainable development through poverty alleviation, higher education management and business environment strategies in Nigeria(Nigeria Association for Educational Administration and Planning, Ibadan, 2008) Isah, E. A.; Erwat, E. A.; Fabunmi, M.Sustainable development is an all inclusive concept which is a function of several factors. Factors that assist sustainable development is higher productivity that increases economic growth rapidly. Where sustainable development is on going, the standard of living in such countries is very high hence most countries desire it. Certain factors aid sustainable development, these include education which provides the necessary skills to increase productivity, poverty alleviation as a factor will empower the people towards increasing the national capital stock, and a good business environment will determine the level of investment in such an economy. This study investigated the concepts of poverty alleviation, higher education management and business environment. It gave the conceptual definitions of the three variables and highlighted indices of under development that showed high population, low productivity, mono export economy and economies dependent on primary production. The tripartite issues in higher education of funding, autonomy and access to education were also discussed. Policy options and solutions were provided at the end of the study.Item The paradox of Nigeria higher education and the employment problem among youths: a critical analysis(2009) Isuku, E. J.This paper examined the problem relating to higher education and youth employment in the Nigerian labour market. The national survey data obtained from the Bureau of Statistics and other relevant government data bank formed the source of information for the research questions raised in the study. The data were analysed using the simple descriptive statistics. Findings showed that the signals from the Nigerian labour market were becoming more precarious than ever before owing to the growing unemployment problem among youth graduates from the various higher institutions of learning. It revealed that there was a paradox between Nigerian higher education and the labour market. The paradox was that, while graduates supply increased from the various higher institutions over time, there were shortages of relevant and required labour force needed by the labour market for meaningful development. The study concluded that there was a growing mismatch between higher education output and the labour market demand. It therefore recommends that higher education should respond to the changing challenges by directing attention to generic competencies and skill development of students and prepare them for the growing globalisation beyond the usual classroom teaching and learningItem Reducing poverty incidence in Nigeria: The interplay of educational attainment and effective social support(Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning, 2008-03) Babalola, J. B.; Isuku, E. J.The focus on poverty rendition as a key objective is one of the most important feature of the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) and the Millennium Development Goal-MDGs. It is the result of concern about poverty in the country and other regions of the world. Hence this paper examines the interplay of educational attainment and effective social support in reducing poverty incidence in Nigeria. Secondary data from the National Bureau of statistics and other relevant data source were obtained to answer the various research questions raised in the study. Using simple descriptive statistics, results show that; despite the petrol Dollar income for Nigeria, the country is still being rated as one of the poorest in the world as poverty incidence increase both as percentage and in absolute term. Poverty in Nigeria increased from about 18 million (28.1%) in 1980 to 67 million (65.6%) in 199ó and about 80 million (70%) in 2004 (See Muo, 2007:26). This poverty incidence cuts across all the six geopolitical Zones of the country with different degrees of intensity. However, effective and efficient education Service delivery has direct influence on National productivity, which largely determines living standards. It also supports knowledge-driven economic growth strategies and poverty reduction. The paper therefore conclude by recommending among others poverty reduction policies and programmes, which should include massive investment in education, granting the poor access to education and emphasis on empowerment through formal training, and social support that reduces povertyItem Technological education and the attainment of vision 2020 in Nigeria: an exploratory approach(Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning, 2007) Akinwumi, F. S.; Isuku, E. J.Item The role of multilateral organizations in the development of education in Nigeria(2006) Akinwumi, F. S.; Isuku, E. J.The contemporary International Scene is full with numerous co-operations, understandings, undertakings and agreements of various forms of integration which are regional, Continental and global both in nature and dimension. All these integrations are essentially geared towards the elimination of ignorance and poverty. Such undertakings therefore revolves round almost all facets of human activities, military scientific, educational, cultural, health and a lot of others related activities. This interdependent complexity has unavoidably mode the numerous “development roles” of these fortified multilateral agencies inevitable especially to the developing countries. Nigeria as developing country faces both the new challenges of supporting knowledge-driven development and the old challenge of promoting quality, efficiency, and equity at all levels of her educational System. Giving these massive challenges and the obvious limitation facing the government in the revitalization of the system, with the consequence of eroding educational quality, it will therefore not be out of place for these multilateral organization such as the World Bank to lend their supporting hands to salvage the nation ’s failing educational system. The issue of multilateral assistance to educational development must go beyond lip service and international politics to a real and pragmatic support that will bring about sustained quality improvement in the Nigerian educational System. The International donors must pay serious attention to the provision of both financial and other forms of support to the Nigerian Educational System in order for the sector to compete with the ever dynamic global challenges. The educational sector as an important pivotal of economic growth and development. need a wholesale support from all and sundry. Since the ability and role of Government is constrained in most developing countries, multilateral agencies must relax stringent conditions to aid the educational development programmes of these countriesItem The need for supplementary source of fund for the successful execution of the UBE programme in Nigeria(Spectrum Books, 2008) Isuku, E. J.Item Providing an enabling framework for increasing access to higher education in Nigeria: The evolving role of government(Nigeria Association of Educational Administration and Planning., 2007) Isuku, E. J.The ability of a society to produce, select, adapt and utilize knowledge is critical for sustained economic welfare. Hence knowledge gained through the formal education sector has become the most important factor for social and economic development. The Nigerian tertiary education is therefore important if the country is to witness an increase in overall literacy level and general economic development. Except this level of education is solid enough to meet the challenges of producing the needed manpower for the economy, the dream of achieving economic freedom may be difficult. Unfortunately, however, a look at the tertiary education development in Nigeria, particularly at the university level, reveals that the country still lags behind in providing the needed access to its teeming applicants seeking places in its tertiary institutions. In the realization of the important role played by the tertiary institutions and government’s limitations providing for the applicants solely, this paper suggests relevant government policies reform that will enhance greater access to higher education in Nigeria. These policies include, among others, the creation of an enabling environment that will stimulate and encourage expansion in the system