Broadcast media and the constraints on secondary school students learning in Nigeria

Abstract

The need for Broadcast Media in education is becoming imperative as a result of increase in school enrollment. Yusuf (2002) said Educational Broadcasting Media can go a long way in ameliorating the poor state of education as they can be used to stimulate students learning, enrich the quality of instruction and improve teachers’ competence. The use of media broadcast in education will reduce the burden of financing educational infrastructure in schools on the part of the government and also help parents to some extent to cope with the ever increasing cost of financing their wards education. This paper examines constraints of television and radio educational media broadcast on secondary school learning, they include lack of time and materials, incessant power outrage, lack of experts for script writing in various subject areas, stand-by generators, satellite dish to boost reception of programmes and funding because hardly will a programme succeed without adequate funding. Recommendations made were that there should be practice in recording the programme during transmission for play-back at convenient time to your class, stand-by generators be made available in-case of power failure among others.