Corrupt Practices: Threat to Quality Education in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examines how corrupt practices in education serve as threat to the quality of education particularly in Nigeria. It identified the enormous roles quality education play in the personal life of citizens and the development of an entire nation. According to the paper, the development of a nation is predicated on the quality of education offered to its citizenry. This is based on the reason that quality education is responsible for producing the manpower that work in different sectors of the nation’s economy. Quality education plays enormous roles in shaping the life of citizenry and the nation at large. The paper argues that corrupt practices have threatened the quality of education offered to her citizenry and has gone a long way in affecting the quality of lives of the citizenry and impairing on the pace of development of the entire nation. To curb these challenges, the paper recommended sensitization of stakeholders through seminar, conferences, workshops and symposium, institutionalization of anti-corruption group that monitors and reports, punishing of offenders to serve as deter ant to others, integrating of religion/religious instructions, guidance and counseling civic education into the curriculum, ensure online financial transactions, strict adherence to due process and complying with the 26% UNESCO recommendations of funding education.

Keywords: Quality education, corrupt practices and threat