Contents
Acknowledgement....................ix
Foreword....................xi
Introduction....................xiii
Chapter One Confused Situation/Position of Education....................1
i. The tripartite squabble, the metamorphosis....................3
ii. Certificate Syndrome....................4
iii. Online Academic Business....................6
iv. No Money no Education....................10
v. The Universal Basic Education (UBE)....................14
Chapter Two Handicap of Today's Education....................20
i. Establishment of schools—poor equipment and staff, religious battle, political egoism, good intention—poor personnel and poor execution....................21
ii. Understaffing, product of institutions, staff aberrations....................24
iii. Under funding of schools/institutions, infrastructural problems....................27
iv. Low salary structure, no teacher incentive, lack of teacher education....................31
v. Lack of keen interest by schools/institutions stakeholders—govt., churches, private bodies....................33
vi. Cultism in schools, inability of government/school administration/parents to stop the practice....................35
vii. Western brain drain....................36
viii. Misplaced priorities, literacy and community education....................40
ix. Endemic corruption....................43
x. Crisis of poverty....................46
Chapter Three Balancing Education Ineffectiveness, need for reformation....................52
i. Strict regulation on educational system, discipline....................54
ii. Not only consumers but producers....................59
iii. Ability to fight odds in the society....................61
iv. Accepting knowledge not just money as power, education paves the way....................64
v. Advancement in all spheres of societal biddings/endeavours—education, science, law, medicine, media and relationship, etc....................66
vi. Patriotic orientation, changing value system....................69
Evaluation....................73
References....................83