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This work is focused on the issue for free education raised in the National Policy on Education. The author tried to find out how free is the Nigerian free education programme. The author also took a look at the historical development of free education in Nigeria and the issues that were raised. The problems of free education in Nigeria were also discussed. The paper ended with recommendation and conclusion.

This study examined teachers and students perception of the problems of effective achievement of skill acquisition using government secondary school, Owerri in Imo State as a case study. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design for the study was a case study research. The population of the study was 82 senior secondary teachers and 545 senior secondary students from 9 state owned senior secondary schools in Owerri education zone in Imo State. 12 senior secondary teachers and 82 senior secondary students constituted the sample of the study.

The discussion about skills acquisition should not be limited to psycho-motor skills, scientific and technical skills, and mechanical and technical know-how. It needs also to focus on mental skills acquisition. One of such skills that are vital to the survival of any society is critical political thinking skills. This is a skill that can be taught and learnt. This is a skill that the educational system at all levels should impart unto students. For this to be effectively done teachers-educatee need to be educated in the critical tools of political philosophy.

This paper attempts to define the key concepts of networking, collaboration, tertiary institution, functionality and self reliance. It further x-rays the problems of funding and resource insufficiency in the running of tertiary institutions in Nigeria and the need and urgency for the institutions to adopt networking and collaboration strategies, as a way forward to ensure that they produce functional and self reliant graduates. Possible areas, types, strategies and guidelines for success in institutional networking and collaboration are enumerated and discussed.

Concepts like words mean different things to different people. Since most concepts generally lack universal theories (and because of such limitations), they are used and interpreted in different ways by different analyst and scholars. Therefore, there is need to have penetrating analysis so as to grasp their innate meanings and relationship with the theme of the conference. The concept to be examined in this paper include: Nation Building, Education, Patriotism, Self-Reliance, and Productivity.

This study investigated the impact of recreating school business management on principals’ overall administrative productivity among secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. A random sample of one hundred (100) principals was employed for the study. A researcher-designed questionnaire titled Recreating School Business Management and Principals’ Overall Administrative Productivity Questionnaire (RSBPAPQ). Was used for data collection, while Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used for data analyses.

This paper was designed to look at acquisition of skills and competences by technical education teachers as instrument for national growth in Nigeria. The paper x-rayed the national policy on education and the same time, looked at the present implementation programme on ground in different vocational and technical education institutions in Nigeria. The components examined in the implementation programmes are the teacher, skills and competencies acquired by teachers, methods of instruction, policy thrust and reformation and strategies for human resource development.

The school is generally known as a place where learning of positive behaviour and good morals prevail. Apart from inculcating training of the mind and character observation of laws rules and regulations are held at high esteem. The pupils/students are also expected to obey the order from their teachers and school authorities and to maintain an established standard of behaviour. It follows that any pupil/student that disobeys the rules and regulations of the school becomes subject to be punished.

The major purpose of this paper was to discuss the provision in the National Policy on Education for teachers‟ acquisition of competences required for teaching the processes of science and to relate them with science teacher‟s practices in the field. It was found that the competences practiced by science teachers in the field run short of the provisions in he National Policy on Education for imparting skills of processes of science to students.

Achieving excellence in educational activities is the major goal and objective of the national policy on education for functionality and self-reliance. The paper presents the Re-appraisal of strategies in teacher education on how to achieve academic excellence for national development. The influence of qualitative teachers in the implementation of educational programmes is considered the most important concept in this paper. Teacher Education is to equip prospective teachers with the knowledge, attitude, behaviors and skills they require in the classrooms.