The essence of university has for long been defeated in Nigeria. In the actual sense, not everyone should be in the university, as the university is meant for individuals\u2019 with high level of thinking, innovation,\u00a0 problem-solving and sound reasoning.
\nThe university is\u00a0meant to be a research\u00a0 citadel where new ideas\u00a0 required to power\u00a0 local industries and organisation are nurtured, while\u00a0 evolving new strategies for economic productivity. Untill we go back to the basics of education and learning in Nigeria, we will continue to produce substandard graduates in quality and quantity.
\nHandicraft is entirely another different world, required for people who harness the practicality of the ideas being developed in the universities, and churn it out in massive industrial productions. I believe both handiwork and education are\u00a0important in today\u2019s Nigeria.
\nIn Nigeria, the school system has no content of reality of life outside, thus\u00a0 limiting the capacities of students to get\u00a0 employment or engage in self employable ventures.
\nWe see many students leave school and cannot represent themselves in any forum, or show intelligence even in the field of study they so prefer. The community see all who have been to school as\u00a0 people made for white collar jobs (office jobs) and this affects\u00a0 the students\u00a0 from venturing into small personal business or engaging\u00a0 in other innovative thinking.
\nI perceive\u00a0this as a failure of the education system and a narrow approach to the celebrated curriculum and therefore, recommend learning at all levels to gather information, generate ideas and discover hidden capacities that are needed for the turnaround in the country.
\nVocational education which was once a perfectly respected, even\u00a0mainstream educational path,\u00a0 came to be viewed as a track for poor\u00a0 students. People have huge and diverse range of skills and learning styles.
\nThe dearth of vocational education at the secondary school level has bred a skill shortage in manufacturing sector today. Many of the jobs are\u00a0 attainable through apprenticeship, on the job\u00a0 training, and vocational programmes offered at community colleges. They do not require expensive, four- year degree programmes for which many\u00a0 students are not suited.<\/p>\n
Bethel Toby,
\nPort Harcourt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The essence of university has for long been defeated in Nigeria. In the actual sense, not everyone should be in the university, as the university is meant for individuals\u2019 with high level of thinking, innovation,\u00a0 problem-solving and sound reasoning. The university is\u00a0meant to be a research\u00a0 citadel where new ideas\u00a0 required to power\u00a0 local industries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[702],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294304,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294300\/revisions\/294304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}