The Enrolment of Mid Stream Students for Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria Issues and Challenges

Abstract

Secondary education is abridge between primary and tertiary education which prepares the individuals to be useful members of the society. It is designed to carter for the individuals interests and talents. Unfortunately there is a growing culture of students dropping out of school after Junior Secondary Schools (JSS III) only reappear in third term of Senior Secondary School (SSSI) or SSS II. Some register for senior school certificate examination without passing through SSS I and II. Such pattern of enrolment is adopted because of socio-economic, political cum economic institutional factors. Challenges arising from such enrolment pattern include discipline, supervision and poor quality education. The paper examined how to tackle the challenges and recommended the restructuring of the political and economic institutions to make it more inclusive.

Keywords: Mid-stream students, Enrolment, Extractive, Inclusive Institutions.