Education plays a tremendous role in economic and social development of any nation. it also enhances the theoretical, political and aesthetic valves of individuals as well. thus the importance of distance education cannot be overemphasized.
However, the program as the experience in Nigeria has revealed, was fraught with numerous problems. firstly, on the part of institutions infrastructural and geographical problems became very apparent, as study centers were set up all over the country in areas very remote from the locus of administration. This situation was compounded by poor communication networks, paucity of specialized equipment and technical skills required to administer and sustain the program, and other logistic problems. In addition, the students-lecturer ratio is staggering and this is unlikely to permit effective teaching. the last point above however is not confined to distance education.
It is no secret that the anomalies such as apathetic and lackadaisical attitude towards work, and moral decadence in the "citadel of learning". Little wonder that some consider the distance education system as a money making venture through involvement in fraudulent practices such as "sorting", conniving with students to cheat, and so forth. Students on their want to acquire degrees at any cost, searing for shortcuts, even adopting the Machiavellian principle of "the end justifies the means" there is no gain saying the fact that the educational system in Africa is in serious trouble, as various writers have attested to.
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