Promoting and Sustaining a Virile Statistical Laboratory in Nigeria's Premier University: Lesson from UI-LISA Experience [chapter]

Olusanya Elisa Olubusoye, Oluwayemisi Alaba, Serifat Folorunso, Olalekan J. Akintande, Eric A. Vance
2022 Promoting Statistical Practice and Collaboration in Developing Countries  
Education is one of the earliest social services embraced in Nigeria as an instrument of stability, change, and development. Since national independence in 1960, the education system has undergone several phases of transformation. Presently, it is divided into six years of primary, three years of junior secondary, three years of senior secondary, and four years of tertiary education. This system is popularly known as 6-3-3-4. Under this arrangement, statistics is not being taught as a subject
more » ... the primary school level. Before 1960, statistics was virtually unheard of even at the secondary school level. Thereafter, it was taught in secondary schools under the subject of mathematics up to 1973. It was introduced as one of the subjects to be taken in the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) in 1974 both at the Ordinary Level (O/L) and Advanced (A/L) (Olubusoye and Shittu, 1998) . According to Adamu (1986) , in 1979, the ratio of the number of candidates taking CONTENTS
doi:10.1201/9781003261148-10 fatcat:7h4srgoawzh4hltc7baejnzfk4