Educational Partnership: An Alternative to Present and Future of Nigeria's Education System Reforms

Abstract

This paper considered "educational partnership" as an alternative to the present and future of Nigerian education system reforms. In this discourse therefore, salient issues including partnership/educational partnership, educational partnership programmes review, international academic cooperation, the Nigeria project and benefits of educational partnerships were highlighted. The paper advanced that private educational initiatives like Operation Peace All Secondary School (ORASS), Operation Reach All Primary School (ORA PS), Public-Private Partnership (PPP), Community Accountability and Transparency Initiative (CATI), Adopt-A- School Programme (AASP), Vocational Enterprise Institutions (VEI), Innovatio Enterprise Institutions (IEI) and National Career Centres (NCC), are all encouraging as they are capable of making education (in Nigeria) play its role of transforming the society now and in the future. Finally, the paper concludes that maintaining the frontier in meeting the MDG's therefore, demands that stakeholders in education should adopt and imbibe the spirit of partnership.