The Effect of Poverty on Educational Development of the Citizens
The Effect of Poverty on Educational Development of the Citizens.
ABSTRACT
Poverty has been a serious problem facing all society over the years. This paper critically analyses the conceptual problems associated with poverty over the education of the citizens.
It also analyses the causes of poverty and the various programme put in place for poverty alleviation such as family economic advancement. (feap) and poverty alleviation programme (pap) and various forms in which the government has interfered.
The question is, how far have these programmes served as a veritable instrument of poverty alleviation in the country? This paper suggests that even though these measures have not achieved much as poverty alleviation instruments because of their operations deficiencies, they are nonetheless good instruments that could be improved upon.
This research also has found out that the increase of the crime wave is as a result of the frustration that the poor get from their deprivation of education by poverty.
Workable and feasible solutions have been proffered for the problems in the educational sector so that qualitative education of the citizens could be attained.
INTRODUCTION
This work is based on the effect of poverty on the educational development of the citizens with a particular reference to Federal Polytechnic Oko in Anambra State.
The effect of poverty here is those things that can bring ineffective growth in the educational development of the citizens. It is pertinent to know that poverty in any establishment hampered the achievement of its targeted objectives.
Educations of the citizens are faced with numerous problems which in turn affect the growth of such establishment.
It is the therefore in the light of the forgoing that aroused my interest to embark on this research study with a view to finding out the effects, causes and suggest possible solutions to the effect of poverty on educational development of the citizens with a particular reference to Federal Polytechnic, Oko students, Anambra state.
Nevertheless, formal education in Nigeria has been as old as the coming of the colonial masters.
Its existence is not mysterious. They came in with the intention of extending their superior administration, religion and culture to West African countries and also with the intention of engaging in commercial activities with the inhabitants of those countries.
When they came to the shores of these countries e.g Nigeria, they were unfortunately unable to communicate with the people in their language. They devised to teach the people the ways of their life, their language, so some agreed with them and it makes those that agree to be wiser than those that rejected the idea.
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