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Early Childhood Education in Nigeria: Challenges and Job Opportunities
Sep 24, 2025
I sat down with students of Early Childhood Education to share their real experiences, challenges, and advice for anyone planning to study this course in a Nigerian university. 📌 In this video, you’ll discover: What Early Childhood Education really means The subjects and skills you’ll gain during the program Challenges students face and how they overcome them Career opportunities in teaching, childcare, and beyond Honest advice from students already in the course If you’re preparing for JAMB, choosing a course, or simply curious about Early Childhood Education, this guide will help you make the right decision. 👉 Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more student interviews, course breakdowns, and tips about Nigerian universities. 📩 Got questions about Early Childhood Education or any other course? Drop them in the comments — let’s talk!
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All right. Good afternoon. What's your
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name, department, and level?
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Good afternoon. My name is Goodness.
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I'm in early childhood education. I'm in
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my final year.
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Wow. Nice to meet you.
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You too.
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Okay. So, so let me ask why did you
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decide to study this course?
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Actually, I didn't even know that the
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course existed. Yeah, I actually put in
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for linguistics. summer I found myself
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here when the name of this admission
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list came out and I didn't want to stay
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home so I just took my chances.
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Okay. Okay. Thank god you did not stay
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home. So can you now tell us what all
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this course what have you discovered so
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far since your first year till now.
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Okay. I just realized that it helps like
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for me entering school I used to have
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anger issues that kind of thing but
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because of the course so far I've been
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able to manage my anger issues and be
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able to be like go along with kids that
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kind of thing or not as if I actually
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have a problem with kids before but that
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kind of patience too despite whatever
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they do I just kind of calm down to
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why is this child doing this kind of
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thing and all those kind of actually
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helps me even with my fellow um students
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in class. So I kind of like it.
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Okay. So what so what was the importance
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of this course?
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I would say a lot because it actually
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grooms us from child from like birth
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that kind of thing to adult and even
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adult food like there's this course we
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are doing LIS
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um children's literature so the children
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literature tells us about taking care of
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children from birth so you start reading
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um novels to them from the womb before
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before they come out So that way helping
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them have hormones and everything. So
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even when they come out, we have
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literature for them that help guide them
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things they can't relate to you as an
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elder because they don't know how you
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respond to read that kind of thing. So
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they can actually read it from the
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novels and we have some books and um
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stuffs that can actually help the child
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grow on his own.
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Wow. Interesting. Interesting. So what
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are the opportunities available for
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graduates of this course?
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I'll say a lot because not only
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teaching, you can also work in the
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hospital, psychiatric, you can be a
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therapist, a child counselor, a lot that
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can actually benefit our today's
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society.
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Okay. Okay.
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So has there been any challenging
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experience so far as a student now that
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you're in your final year?
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Yes.
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like you have plenty
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the finance and everything and another
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fact like I said at first I do actually
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know that the cause existed so trying to
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like fit in all those kind of stuff is a
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kind of difficult but somehow I just try
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to find my way around it it's not that
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bad if you if you actually sit down to
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understand it it's a nice course but
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since I'm trying to find my way my year
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one year two was something but as of now
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I can proudly say I'm good.
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So I want to like I
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know you said something about it but if
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there is somebody out there that
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probably applied for a different course
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and now has been transferred to early
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childhood education. What advice would
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you give to that person right now?
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Welcome to this world. We need more
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people that will groom children of this
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generation how to be better people, you
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know, because I think our generation of
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today depends so much on social media
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and wanting to live life they see on
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screen instead of real life matters. So
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I just feel as if this course actually
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help us live life from our own
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perspective. You get people sometimes no
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longer care about perspective what they
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feel. They care about what the society
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feel about them. I think life is more
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about what you feel. When you do things
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you feel and whatever result come out of
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it, you are not remorseful about what
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actually happened. You learn from it.
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Try not to make that same mistake. And I
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guess in that um stage or scenario,
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you'll be able to tell your younger
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ones, ah this thing, you're not supposed
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to do it like this. You're supposed to
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do it like this in order not to go this
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way. I guess
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they're welcome to this side of the
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world.
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Thank you for your advice. Thank you for
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the advice. So this is a 4 years course,
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right?
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Yeah.
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Okay. So you guys went for it training,
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work, field work in our year 2, then we
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did um our first teaching practice in
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year three. Then our second teaching
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practice in final year first semester.
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So what did you guys do in the field
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work and the teaching practice
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of observation for the field work. So we
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just had to observe how um teachers take
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care of the students how they relate
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with the student those kind of stuff how
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the school infrastructure where it is
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what they need those kind of things.
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Then the teaching practice was more of
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we teaching the children trying to
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relate with them trying to help the
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teachers get new and this thing for the
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students so they see a better way of
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relating with the student.
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What was the duration of teaching
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practice?
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It was meant to be 3 months but because
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of the way they are rushing us it was
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just one month.
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Okay. But but standard 3 months for the
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first one and the second one in your
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final year. Okay. Okay. Thank you very
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much. So did you did you apart from a
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being a student did you engage in maybe
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uh business extracurricular activities
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or you just a jacko full time?
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Honestly I'm not somebody to be a
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multitasker when it comes to book and
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other things. Yeah I kind of easily
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divert. So it's better to just focus on
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the book when I go out there we can do
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everything that
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interesting take interesting take. Uh
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lastly what advice would you give to a
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students applying for this course and
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maybe any other course let's say first
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year students coming to university
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yeah prepare read your book most
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especially because now because of the
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way they are rushing everything you get
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they are not actually finishing the this
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thing. So I just guess if you are more
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serious with your book you get
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everything and the lecturers are
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intentional most of them you get they
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are the ones that if you calm down they
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will draw you to themsel want you to
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actually know what brought you to school
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but if you carry yourself they will let
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you be you get that kind of stuff. So if
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you bring yourself down and learn how to
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relate with your classmates too, that
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kind of thing, you're going to
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definitely sketch you in whatever course
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you want to do. So that's just it.
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Oh, thank you very much. Thank you very
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much. And that we all wish you success
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in your future endeavor. Hope you invite
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us to your sign out too.
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Finally in a
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Thank you very much.
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