The Effects of Public Sector Corruption on Educational Development in Nigeria: Challenges and Alternative Measures

Abstract

As people are living in different communities either in form of mono or multi ethnic societies, there are factors that define differences in man and these are referred to as social factors. Social factors have great contributions in lubricating the engine of growth and sustainability of education, political economic and religious programmes in Nigeria. However, there are various contending issues to this understanding. Where social provision fails to lend support to or co-exist with educational programs, development of life in its entirety will be zero and there will either be nothing to compare and contrast or to add to the body of knowledge. Social contributions such as the family, religion, ethnicity, peer group, schools, environment, health delivery services, and economic status on one hand and the regulating unit; the institutional authority or government on the other are inevitable intervening variables that must be functioning well if sustainability needs to be achieved for education. The study looks at the viability of the factors, challenges facing the educational development i.e. reasons for success and failure and alternative measures as solution. The objectives of the study are to highlight success of the social factors towards educational development in the past. The emerging challenges inhibiting the proper functionality of those factors or any of their appendages against development. And lastly, the solutions required as alternative measures to confront the challenges in order to enhance improvement in educational development. The theoretical perspective for the study is based on structural functionalist theory. The methodology; the sampling technique is basically on secondary data collection of the available literature as well as recommendations for improvement.

Key Words- Social factors, Education, Development, Corruption, Public sector, Poverty, Unemployment