Gofwan Steven Gambo
Christian Religious Studies Department,
Federal College of Education, Pankshin
AND
Enyi Peter Adole
Christian Religious Studies Department,
Federal College of Education, Pankshin
Abstract
This paper examined the invaluable role of education, especially higher/tertiary education in the development of Nigerian democracy. The paper has sketched a road map for the robust resuscitation and strategic repositioning of education in a crowded and competitive market place in Nigeria. The article introduces the place of higher education in society. and clarifies the main concepts that have been used in the paper, which include ‘education’, ‘democracy’ and ‘survival’. The interdisciplinary methodological strategy used for the writing of this paper is described in the next section. This is followed by the theoretical framework adopted for the research analysis of the paper. Some of the challenges of higher education in Nigeria today are discussed in the next section. The last section enumerates critically needed strategies that should be implemented for the survival or even the revamping of education in Nigeria as the educational system has been to a large extent a failure and rebuilding.
Keywords: Education, Democracy, Development
