The Harbour Library Journal

All over the world, students have different academic calendar depending on their country’s educational body. Students in Nigeria attend school for an average of 195 days in a year, the school year starts in September and ends in July. The typical school day is from 7:45am-3:30pm. Giving this background, it is worthy to note that the structure of the Nigerian school calendar is sufficient for every student in Nigeria to acquire all the education they need for every academic year without adding extra, except for students who may need intervention and additional support. The Nigerian school calendar is compliant with the standard requirement for academic calendar around the world. Students in Australia attend school for 200 days in a year from 9am-3:30pm. While students in China attend school from September to mid –July and the average school day runs from 7:30am-5pm with a two hour lunch hour break. Kenya has an academic calendar that is similar to Nigeria’s and their school day i...

Digital books, apps and electronic media resources help students learn at school and home through engagement and interaction. As beneficial as these digital resources are, not every student, school or parents have access to these resources. Income inequality is the reason why some schools, parents and students can access these resources and others can’t. Only the middle class and rich families in my country can afford to expose their children to online reading materials because of the high rate of internet subscription. Public schools do not have adequate facilities to provide these means for  students from low income families, therefore increasing the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’.   Integrating technology in the classroom can add to eliminating or reducing the gap created by income inequality because all students will have access to digital educational materials that can increase their level of academic achievement. My only concern is how low income scho...