Quality and Standard Balancing in Nigerian University Education: Implications for the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals

Abstract

Education is very crucial in human capital development for the attainment of excellence in the vision area of macro economic, population growth, equity, and natural resource and environmental management. Thus for education to remain “instrument per excellence” (NPE 2004), it must be of high quality with an acceptable standard tone. This paper took its conceptual framework from existing practice ennoblement assumptions, the educational variables that can be utilized to attain quality and standard balance in Nigeria universities. Also, this paper constructively matched operative issues found to be constraining quality and standard in university education in Nigeria with strategic solutions in order to balance sustainable system on theory and practice. It argues that there still exists educational policies such as quota system and government non- chalant attitude to education, thus there is need for a review of higher education policies in the light of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). This paper therefore posits that for positive reflection of the MDG in higher education, the government should consider the review and implementation of these educational variables in universities.