Tertiary institution serves as an avenue for a child to acquire additional education beyond the primary and secondary education. It can equip a child with additional knowledge, skills, and values, which can enable him/her live comfortably within the society, as well as contribute more to its progress. The desire of many parents is to ensure that their children attend tertiary institution, so as to enjoy the dividends of tertiary education. In this paper, the challenges which the students of public tertiary institutions are facing in Nigeria are examined, such as: inadequate classrooms, ill equipped library and laboratories, incessant closure of institution as a result of students unrest, cultism and strikes, inadequacy and non commitment of some lecturers, just to mention few. Evidences in support of the challenges and their gravities were gathered from literature. To make public tertiary institutions worthwhile for the students and redeem the lost glory of tertiary education in Nigeria, provision of more infrastructural facilities and improvement of the state of those available, monitoring and supervision of the lecturers and enforcement of discipline among erring lecturers, resolving crises in the public tertiary institutions through dialogue, avoiding indiscriminate invitation of law enforcement agents into campuses, avoiding the closure of institutions indefinitely, organising seminars, workshop and conferences for the institutions' administrators, charging moderate fees, generation of fund internally, moral training of children, as well as the provision of needs of children by parents/guardians, are recommended.

The study investigated the perception of teachers on school-based factors influencing absenteeism of students in Public Secondary Schools in Central Senatorial District of Ondo State, Nigeria. It adopted descriptive-survey design, raised 3 questions and formulated 2 hypotheses to achieve this feat. Data were collected from 150 government appointed and full time teachers, drawn from 15 Public Secondary Schools in the District. Instrument used was a questionnaire, validated and tested for reliability (α=0.82). Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences while hypotheses were tested using chi-square statistic at 0.05 level of significance. The study found among others that a lot of school-based factors influenced absenteeism in schools, such as unattractive school environment, lack of recreational facilities; discouraging school curriculum; as well as recommend measures, such as the provision of instructional materials and facilities for schools; the need for private sector assistance in the provision of instructional materials and facilities; seeking assistance from wealthy individuals, corporate organizations, Old Students, Non-Governmental Organizations, by school administrators, among others, to combat this menace in schools.

In 1999, Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme was inaugurated in Nigeria, to increase the access of the citizens to basic education and correct other loopholes inherent in its provision. Since the inception of the programme however, there have been massive commitments of human, materials, and financial resources to its implementation, amid the parlous state of the economy. Over the years, inspection has been an activity which is geared towards the improvement of the quality of education in schools. In spite of the role it can play in achieving this feat and the objectives of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, inspection is ineffectively carried out in Nigeria. This paper examines the challenges facing inspection in Nigeria such as inadequate resources, inadequate inspectors, limited time, uncooperative attitude of schools' administrators and teachers, corruption, among others. To achieve this feat, reports of authors and statistics as well as findings of researches in literature, were explored. To improve the state of inspection in the country, adequate funding, recruitment of more inspectors, regular training and re-training of inspectors, among others, are imperative.

Primary education is an important stage in the education process, being the foundation for other stages. When the foundation of a building is weak, such building stands the risk of collapse in future, but will stand the test of time if it is strong. Primary education provides opportunity for a child to acquire knowledge, skills, traits, and values that can make him/her excel at the secondary and tertiary levels. Unfortunately, there are unresolved issues in its provision in Nigeria. In this paper, inadequate access to it, wastage in its provision, unstable curriculum, teaching of subjects by a teacher, unstable management, among other issues, are examined. The paper recommend the orientation of parents and guardians, strong commitment of government in funding and resource provision, among others, to salvage the situation and move primary education forward from the status quo

The study investigated the perception of school heads and teachers on challenges of effective management of public-boarding schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. It involved the use of the 23 public-boarding schools in the State. All the 23 schools were used while 6 government appointed and full-time teachers (3 males and 3 females) were selected from each school, which totaled 138 teachers. The teachers were selected through stratified and simple random sampling techniques. 2 research questions were raised and 2 hypotheses formulated while descriptive-survey design was adopted. Data were gathered using a self-developed 13-item questionnaire, validated and tested for reliability (r= 0.90) and analysed using frequency count, tables, percentage, mean, as well as Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) while the hypotheses were tested using chi-square statistic. The study found inadequate food, high cost of food items, indiscipline of pupils/students, theft of boarding materials, invasion of school by hoodlums, lack of/inadequate provision of security guards, erratic power supply, among others, as the challenges facing effective management of public-boarding schools in the state. Also, no significant difference was found in the perception of male and female school heads, school heads and teachers, on the challenges of effective management of boarding schools. Based on the challenges found, it can be concluded that all is not well with public-boarding schools in the State. The need for administrators of boarding schools to make the environment very conducive for pupils/students and for government to formulate policies which will address the challenges of effective management of boarding schools, among others, are recommended.