Nigeria: Education blamed on weak technology

Declining educational standards in Nigeria are being blamed on weak technology infrastructure, the President of the American University of Nigeria (AUA), Margee Ensign, said. She attributed the declining academic prowess in the country to a weak technological base.

She said what “obtains around the world currently is use of latest technological concepts in disseminating knowledge among students.”

Ensign added that more often than not, the Nigerian system of education “focuses more on the constraints rather than proffering solutions to existing challenges.”

She said measures to boost the technological capacity of AUA would soon see the linking of optic fibres cables to the Yola campus of the institution.

Meanwhile, four personalities, William Bertrand, Eamon Kelly, Laurence Day and Earl Kellogg, have joined the board of trustees of the university in a fresh move to shore up the institution’s capacity internationally.

By Staff