Education in Nigeria today has assumed a very important position in the country’s development programme.
This accounts for the introduction of the universal free primary education (UPE) in 1976 and the establishment of new primary education secondary and post secondary schools al over the country.
The word education could be defined in various ways in a very board sense education could be defined at include every agency which enable an individual to master his physical and social environment of which he is a member. It could be defined as an act of teaching. It could be defined as an act of teaching bringing up, instructing or enlightening.
But for the purpose of this study ,education will be defined as study of an organized and formed formal instruction which is given in education establishment such as schools, colleges, and universities.
Education has an important role to play in the economy function is that of ensuring that the nation’s need for a labour force is satisfied. Nigeria, a modern industrializing society needs not just a great deal of manpower but good quality manpower and both the quantity and quality of this manpower are to a large extent controlled by the educational system.
Education also has a political role to play in the Nigeria society. The stability of nay autonomous unit depends upon two criteria, consensus of opinion about the assumptions underlying the system and the ability of the system to provide leaders from within it .in both cases, education has an essential role to play.
However formal education in Nigeria is no longer confined to educational establishment only. The mass media have in recent time taken a bold and positive step toward enhancing educational development in the country. An example is the Enugu broadcasting service (ESBS) the university of air.
Mass media communication comprise the institutions and techniques by which specialized group employed technological devices that is the press television radio, films etc to disseminate inform, tin to large heterogeneous and widely dispersed audience.
This study is particularly concerned with television admits contributions to educational advancement in the country, educational broad casting started with Western Nigeria broadcasting co-operation/television WNBCI/TV Ibadan in the year 1964, later in the same year, educational broadcasting spread to Kaduna then, east of the northern steps,
In 1965, the Eastern Nigeria broadcasting service/ television ENBC/TV started what looked like educational broadcasting with the help of the eastern Nigeria ministry of education but the programming then was mainly informal comprising what Elihu Katz and Gorge Wdell might described as extensive education. A typical ENBC/TV programme in this category was the “tortoise club – a programme for every young child.
This type of programming continued until the outbreak if the Nigeria civil war in 1966 at the restoration peace in 1970, television stations did not function until 1972, and later in 1973, NTA Lagos revived its educational programmes by introducing some foreign films on science. This progammes was meant for children between the ages of ten and fifteen and it was at this point that the idea of school broadcasting in science came up and was introduced in many of the Nigeria television stations in the country.
NTA channel 8 Enugu was the one among other television stations that introduced school broadcasting in science in its programme schedule so, in 1976 the station started a formal educational programme, which they called “science for schools”. This programme was then jointly produced by the station and he ministry of education headquarters Enugu later, the cooperation shifted from the ministry to the modern aids to education center under the principal education officer Mrs. F. Nwakorby
The format for the production of the programme was mainly provided by the center but in the early part of 1977 the educational department of NTA channel 8 became autonomous with a graduate in science heading it. And from then, the format for he production of the programme became the responsibility of the department.
The programme is made up of lectures in chemistry ad biology. It is broadcasting by weekly on Monday’s at 5.30pm and last for thirty minutes. The production is serial to some subject matter leading to the development of another. The scheme is drawn along Oide the school certificate syllabus in the chemistry and biology. It has as its target audience student in class as there, four and five in secondary school who are offering chemistry and biology in the school certificate examination.
According to the programme producers, the programme “science for schools is designed.
It is noteworthy that apart from “science for schools” there age other formal education programmes. These include “parlon fancies produced for lower secondary school students, it is broadcasting on Tuesday as 5.00pm and last for thirty minutes. Teaching Igbo for primary school pupils this is aimed at every Tuesday by 5,30pm and last for thirty minutes “ school debate last for thirty minutes school challenge for secondary school student broadcast on Wednesday at 5.30pm it also last for thirty minutes.
But this concentration “science for schools ad is designed to determine whether this programme has achieved the aims and objectives of which it was established. It is aimed at finding out whether the television is playing an effective role in formal education. In studying “science for schools” the researcher intends to find out scientifically note whiter the students who are the progrmmes target audience get conversant with the programme and they are gaining anything from it to know how it helps in eying out educational development with the knowledge of what television means. That is going into details of television will help clear in co-ordaining educational programme in Nigeria.
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