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The Nigerian education system
The educational system in Nigeria is divided into 4 stages
which are
1.
The pre-school stage (kindergarten stage)
2.
The primary education
3.
The secondary education
4.
The tertiary education
The pre-school stage consists of
the kindergarten classes where student first encounter formal education. Here
they are primarily thought English words and spellings and they may encounter
simple mathematics in its many forms. Students are usually between the ages of
2 and 5.
The primary education stage
consist of six classes that teach students a lot ranging from health-education
to civics-education, core subjects like mathematics, English and Nigerian
languages such as Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. The student are helped to be creative
by teaching them fine/creative arts, vocational studies, music and a whole lot more that makes this period a
vey memorable experience for the student. Science is not left out as the
student take a subject called elementary science which aims to introduce them
to the sciences.
The secondary education is
divided into two stages of three years each. These are the junior secondary school
and the senior secondary school. The transition from the junior school to the
senior school is only after passing a very important examination which is the
junior secondary certificate examination. The choice of subject a student
decides to take at the secondary school level will determine the kind of
courses he or she can apply to take at the university. The subjects on offer
are divided into tracts consisting of about nine subjects or more. The tracts
are
1.
Science
2.
Arts
3.
Commercial
The subjects taught in senior
secondary schools are listed below:
1.
Mathematics
2.
English language
3.
Literature-in-English
4.
Nigerian languages(Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba)
5.
Biology
6.
Physics
7.
Chemistry
8.
Commerce
9.
Economics
10.
Food and nutrition
11.
Clothing and textile
12.
Home management
13.
Computer science\Typing
14.
French
15.
Music
16.
Applied electricity
17.
Auto mechanics
18.
Technical drawing
19.
Geography
20.
History
21.
Christian religious knowledge
22.
Islamic religious knowledge
23.
Accounting
24.
Government
25.
Physical education
26.
Agriculture
27.
Arabic
28.
Woodwork
29.
Metal work
30.
Visual
Three year spent in senior
secondary schools cumulate in a final o-level examination that then determines
if a student proceeds to university. Of course an individual might decide not
to proceed further at any stage he or she completed.
Most students however usually
proceed to universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education that abound
the country. At universities they get a bachelors degree after an average of 4
years, engineering courses take 5 years, medicine and law takes 6 years each.
Universities also offer maters program and PhD for those that would like to go
into academics. A parallel system is the polytechnic which offers higher
national diplomas after 5 years of study.
