THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN REVAMPING SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH EAST, NIGERIA

This research work examined the role of education in revamping socio-economic growth and development in the north east. Looking at the abundant natural and human resources the country is endowed with, one will wonder why the north-east is still living in abject poverty, bedeviled by various crimes and insurgency. Base on this, the study looked at the current educational status in the region under study and its impact on socio-economic growth and development. To do this, three objectives were formulated to guide the study. The broad objective of the study is to assess current status of education and its impact on the prevailing crimes and insurgency as well as on socio-economic growth and development. One specific objective is to examine the role of education in revamping socio-economic growth and development in the area of study. The study was conducted using survey design; the population of the study constitutes educational planners, policy makers, school managers, parents and students in the North East zone of Nigeria. The sampling technique was purposive sampling technique to select two states that are most hit by poverty and crimes (Borno and Yobe) and random sampling method to select respondents. The sample size is 400 respondents, that is, eighty respondents from educational planners, policy makers, school managers, parents and students each making two hundred. A ten item questionnaire base on two points likert scale was used to get opinions of respondents. Inferential and descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data using SPSS package