Nigeria‟s Educational System in a Globalizing World

The world is in the midst of an electronic communications revolution. Electronic information flows across national boundaries. But not every nation is in this information technology jamboree at the same paste and frequency. Many people in Nigeria for reasons of technology, infrastructure, or socioeconomic status do not have access to electronic information. Telecommunication has changed the speed and method of doing the business of education all over the globe. It has transformed the world into a computerized global village with easy access to scholarly publications and new academic innovations round the globe. Thus, information technology is an inevitable tool in the 21st Century Education. Nigerian scholarly articles as well as Nigeria universities information on the internet is very scanty. It is therefore a challenge for Nigeria to haste and computerize her educational system so that she can compete effectively in the global market place. It will be erroneous to argue that modern technology is the answer to all of human problems. And it is unassailably true that Nigeria’s educational problems are not from the ‘harshness and the niggardliness of nature’. Obviously, the Nigerian attitude towards information technology is a major part of the problem. In fact, a big chunk of it lies, on how to restructure the educational system in line with current technology development and its adoption and acceptability as along with the new information technologies are new challenges in getting accurate and reliable information from around the world.

Keywords: Nigeria, Educational System, Information Technology