TY - JOUR AU - Chikwado Ejeh Paulinus PY - 2022/07/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ETHICS AND EDUCATION: TOWARDS A REORIENTATION OF VALUES IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA JF - GPH-International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research JA - IJSSHR VL - 5 IS - 07 SE - Articles DO - 10.5281/zenodo.6907148 UR - https://gphjournal.org/index.php/ssh/article/view/663 AB - Moral maturity is a mark of human development and the moral development of the citizens of every nation must precede other aspects of development otherwise the process of development would be obstructed by immorality of the citizens. In the same vein, any education that is devoid of morality is incomplete, meaningless and harmful to both the individuals who acquire it and the society in which they live. This paper is therefore, a critical examination of the role of ethics or morality in education. Through the historical and analytical methods, the paper discovers that there is presently a dearth of moral probity in our educational system. It then advocates for a re-orientation of values in our tertiary institutions through a re-introduction of moral education in the teaching curriculum of every tertiary institutions in Nigeria.  The paper recommends that Nigeria should get her priorities right by giving primacy to morality in her educational and developmental programmes. ER -