(1739) ECONOMIC CRISIS IMPACT ON EDUCATION AND TEACHERS: CASE STUDY OF SOUTH WEST NIGERIA

摘要

The quality of politics determines the quality of education policies, programmes, processes andeventually the products (or results, or outcomes). Government underfunding and commoditisation ofeducation has been noted to be one of the major causes of crisis in education. The recent economiccrisis confronted by the Nigerian governments has led to the non-payment of teachers salary forseveral months with a resultant effects of teachers demoralisation, incessant strikes, protests andschool closures. The reduction in government budgets for education to take care of other sectorswould continue to worsen educational developments in sub-Sahara region of Africa if education is notbeing given the required and needed attention.Educational promotion can alleviate poverty and unemployment being confronted by many developingcountries of the world and reduce deterioration of human capital at the long run. The reduction ingovernments' budgetary allocation on education has negative impacts not only on teachers but alsoon the students and families.The collected survey data shows that the recent economic crisis had an observable negative impacton educational sector and on the central education budgets of various states.In conclusion, development of education on pre-primary, primary and secondary education, tertiaryeducation and vocational education would alleviate unemployment, some states need to adjust theirbudgetary allocations to favour educational sector in order to avoid crisis. Teachers must engage inself-development and trainings, strengthen their organisations, serve as models of prudent resourcemanagement, offer leadership by example.