STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL POPULATION ENROLMENT FROM PRIMARY TO SECONDARY SCHOOL IN OMOKUABSTRACT (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
In recent times in Nigeria, and even in the world at large there have been several Educational Population sensitivity programmes aimed at correcting the glaring or perceived Educational Population imbalance, especially in education against the Educational Population. These programmes are multifaceted: social, cultural, political, economic, and educational dimensions.
Education is very important for sustaining and developing the people. With education, people are able to endure, mature. Acquire experience, wisdom and the capability to fend for themselves as well as serve their communities and nation.
Education is also both an instrument of stability and of change: stability in the sense that good traditions are documented, taught, imbibed and practised, and change because it equips people to meet new challenges. In the same vein education is a tool for inculcating moral values in the citizen. Education statistics, like other social data, facilitates planning. They constitute invaluable inputs for computing important social indicators which are used to monitor trends in the quality of life and in making regional and international comparisons
The general feeling is that the Educational Population is disadvantaged and short-changed in many areas of life. The children are perceived not to have had their fair share of opportunities in life including access to education. There are, therefore, campaigns targeted to redress this perceived imbalance. Some of the Educational Population sensitivity programmes are in the areas of empowering women economically, culturally, socially, politically and educationally. Some of such programmes include the agitation for a halt to female genital mutilation, enhancing the girl child right to education, a halt against women trafficking and prostitution, and agitation for equal education and job opportunities for all Educational Population, among others.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Stromquist (1988) investigated some factors related to the attainment of women in education including the access to schooling and the years of education attained. He observed that these factors are critical for women in developed and developing nations, while observing that the mainstreaming theories about Educational Population inequalities are Educational Population blind, and do not attempt to explain the Educational Population differences in education. For him the socialist feminist theory offers the most acceptable explanation for the present condition of women’s inequality in education.
