Managing Quality Education for Fostering National Security in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examined quality education as a panacea for national security. The essence was to x-ray how quality education can help foster national security. Quality education was seen as the type of education that conforms to the stipulated specification as contained in the education blueprint. Such education promises to equip recipients with the right attitudes, values, skills, traits, capabilities and competences that are necessary for them to become useful and functional members of the nation. On the hand, national security means absence of any form of threats to citizens of any nation. The paper made a case for quality education as it relates to national security. Quality education provides the nation with qualified manpower for scientific and technological developments. Also, quality education helps to liberate citizens from poverty of the mind and other obscurity enabling them to see the numerous opportunities in their environments and equally equip recipients with knowledge to discover and harness their innate potentials for better and useful living in the society. Some of the hindrances to quality education include inadequate funding, poor reading culture and poor learning environment. It was recommended that government should comply with the UNESCO regulations as funding education system.