EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

EDUCATION SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

The primary level of education has the largest enrolment, followed by secondary level and Tertiary level, primary education is very important component of Nigerian education system sector that deserves handling with great care and caution.                                                                                                                      
Primary education is the basic education that is given to the young pupils aged from four to five years, in Nigeria primary education mostly starts from the age of four for female children and five four male children, it is the grass root education, primary education ends for six years starting from primary one to primary six.                                                                                                                                                                 Primary school going age;
 the children of primary school going age are the children that are four years to ten years old, a child is expected to be in primary school at the age of four to five years and pass out from primary school at the age of ten to eleven years, before going to secondary school.      

SITTING ARRANGEMENT IN NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

In Nigerian primary schools most especially in the northern Nigerian boys and girls are mixed, although they sit seprately, in a classroom the girls are arranged in one sides and the boys in the other side, in all primary schools both the private and public schools both gender are found in one class. Immediately after the primary they will be separated s they are moving to junior secondry , but in most private schools they would still remain mixed even in the secondary. And also in colleges and universities the students are mixed.