The Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwukah, disclosed this on Tuesday at a two-day retreat for governing councils of federal universities in Abuja. The retreat, held under the theme ‘Elements of Statutory Governance, Procurement and Financial Accounting in Nigerian Universities,’ is to address the challenges of the education sector. Mr Anwukah said this was being considered because many university graduates were not good enough to be employed by industries.
He said the proposal was similar to the extra year currently being undertaken by law and medical students. “Law students attend Law School for one year before going for NYSC and medical students go for one year Housemanship before they are allowed to practice fully, so it will be necessary for other courses to also go through this process. The Lagos Business School can also serve as a one year after-school training.
The universities are producing products that are not matching the needs of the industries. I urged the Committee of Pro-chancellors and Committee of Vice-Chancellor to end the decline in the standard of education."
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Hian!
ReplyDeleteSome people chop through the anus and sh** through the mouth.
DeleteThis sounds good
ReplyDeleteI support. The written English here alone confirms that decision. #dodgesnigeriangraduatesshoes#
ReplyDeletelol 😀😁
DeleteSo it's the extra one year that will now perfect the written English?
DeleteEnglish is not our first language in Africa,it's a borrowed language,that people dont have perfect written english doesn't mean their iQ is low.
DeleteIt's a nice idea. Only if the government would sponsor it. Smh for our system......
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Hian Nigeria and stupid educational policies. What happen to the already existing policies?If any policy is to be made then it should be made before one graduate. But then we all know how these things are NA.
ReplyDeleteHow can u be a "graduate" and not be good enough to be employed? Whose fault is it that they are not good to be employed? When you keep hiring people who are not trained teachers or half baked teachers/lecturers with zero teaching skills and experience to teach and lecture student you will always produce half baked graduates.
Let's not even talk about kids from wealthy home whose IQ is zero but always comes out with first class, thats another issue for another. The truth is the system is fucked and until the system is fixed we are gonna keep producing graduates that are not good enough for employment.
If they would pay the salaries. Employers won't want to carry that extra 'load'.
ReplyDeleteMy thought on this is that internet useage is what is causing decline in our education. Student do not go to the library again. All they do is whatsapp, twitter, instagram, bigbrother to mention but a few. Instead of having an extra year why not revisit the CURRICULUM in such a way that the student will come out with CERTIFICATE AND SKILL.
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DeleteThanks for the correction
DeleteVery smart 👌
DeleteIf our system of governance is good in the first place,we won't be here in the first place.
ReplyDeleteNice one.
ReplyDeleteHave they employed people that graduated with good grades and are good enough to be employed by industries???
ReplyDeleteBunch of Jokers
As if Nysc is not a waste of one year already
That will be highly productive if it can be achieved. The question is would the government make funds readly available for the graduate schools to be properly equiped and help get our graduates fully baked and ready for the labour market. Or would it be the usual Nigeria government shit talk and negligence.
ReplyDelete“The universities are producing products that are not matching the needs of the industries.”
ReplyDeleteMtchew! Whose fault is it?
Y’all should go sit down somewhere. Una never ready.
Number1Africanbadgirl up top has helped me type some salient points.
Nice one. Good idea
ReplyDeleteWill that one still grantee a good paying job..
ReplyDeleteIt won't oo
DeleteAfter spending 4 to 5years in uni plus the strikes then you spend another one year in the graduate school and another one year in nysc...that's 6 to 7 years
And you'll still have little chances of being employed
This country just dey vex me abeg
It's okay but I'm thinking about cost. Who will foot the bill for the one year training? Lagos Business school is not beans.
ReplyDeleteI'm indifferent tho...
ReplyDeleteWho am I kidding? It's needless!!!
Folks will still finish the extra year and job hunt for two years. Please don't waste resources on this idea.
If these people have functional brain in their head what they should consider is how to adapt the school curriculum to the reality of things now. Instead of using outdated curriculum. How can we have graduate in Engineering that cannot make pin? Computer engineers that can not build one? Adding extra year without changing the curriculum is still taking us no where. We have professors in engineering and other practical courses that have not invented pins. There is too much emphasis on certificate / paper qualification. The curriculum should be changed.
ReplyDeleteValid point. The curriculum needs to be changed. Back then in school, our lecturers would use lesson notes of almost 10 years to lecture and I wondered if they even reviewed their notes rather than dumping same old story on new students.
DeleteTrue!!!
DeleteMy course was 5 years and the 4th year was for practicals.
I learnt detailed report writing in university (my grades for 4th year depended research, observation, interpretation and reports), creating and presenting on PowerPoint (because my final year first semester had 30% of my grades dependent on that whole project), i also participated in the practical aspect of my course and added it to all the theory. With this, i was able to decide where I want to focus. I applied that decision on AOS to my final project.
But for people who don't have that one year experience, in courses that aren't theory and labwork only.... it may be hard for them to even understand application.
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DeleteThey are looking for a way to divert resources again.mtchewww
ReplyDeleteThe issue with education in Nigeria is that of quality.I see no issue with social science and art courses,the major challenge is with the professional courses such as engineering and sciences.There are no uquipments to facilitate quality practicals for the students.I took up a post graduate course in Engineering in one of the universities in Nigeria, I attended class once and was disappointed by what I saw.The environment too very terrible.Something has to be done on funding so that required materials needed to impart arete can be purchased and utilised
ReplyDeleteAll this nonsense they spill.
ReplyDeleteThe Nigerian Educational sector is in a state of emergency and needs urgent attention....
ReplyDeleteThe government should reform the university education and not introduction of a year program for graduate before NYSC.Why won’t we produce graduates that are unemployable when lecturers keep sleeping with female students,students paying to have good grades and MBA student getting 40% in a course. In Canada the pass mark for any graduate student is 70%.
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