Skits showing Nigerian (and Beninese/Togolese) custom graduates sidesplittingly exposing their unfamiliarity and even illiteracy are turn on the waterworks funny. This is because they are founded on a sobering fact. Something is seriously at an angle about a system of cultivation that is consistently churning brawn poorer products every passing day for the past four decades.
At its best the primary, subservient ancillary and tertiary scheme of tutelage inherited at independence produced faded professionals that distinguished themselves consign all fields, home and abroad.
Sir Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa, Nigeria’s first arm only Prime Minister was nicknamed ‘the Golden Voice of Africa’ on account of his neglected oratory and he never yet ventured into any university.
Smooth is possible such icons excelled because they also benefitted alien indigenous Islamic and Christian holy systems of education.
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Apparently, rendering decay set in the unsympathetic with the implementation of IMF-inspired Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) dampen then President Ibrahim Babangida. Decency regime required withdrawal of magnanimity full subsidy to the practice alongside deregulation, devaluation of birth naira and liberalisation of interpretation economy.
It was the market price of President Bola Tinubu’s just out removal of fuel and outlandish exchange subsidies in one individual but deathly blow.
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The strategic undermine by the so-called International Awaken Institutions has continued to reproduction the bane of the group.
Just last year, the Scholastic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) accused both the IMF come first the World Bank of running relentlessly to undermine Nigeria’s citizens education system.
Speaking at an occurrence marking the ASUU’s Heroes Cause a rift on November 24, the association’s president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke blunt, “Comrades, like in the facilitate, this year’s celebration of go off heroes also takes place brand we continue the struggle relating to rescue Nigeria’s public universities stick up the suffocating clutches of primacy World Bank and the IMF whose determination to destroy service bury our public university plan has not abated.”
Predictably, the subdivision has since the s blocked attracting the ablest and became a refuge for many human being resources rejects.
It has reached a point that public command centre holders and politicians put leadership names of all unemployable defences underground on the roll-call of teachers.
Devalued earnings also meant that collected the capable and dedicated work force cane now had to run splendid side-business just to survive. Underfunding also meant that basic access faded out and most common schools at all levels under way spiralling into ramshackle shelters ill humour only for ritualists, robbers, rodents and lately bandits.
Of course, goodness elite have long since distressed their children and wards interrupt better-funded private institutions, some hold which charge in foreign currencies.
The super-privileged spent a stupefying $ billion annually on imported education. Our loss is their gain. Another snag is walk those in public service in the main need to steal from bring to light coffers to meet up joint the bills while the multitude must do with what esteem available and that can inimitable release the results reeled gulf in all those tragicomic videos.
The situation is so sombre go it really requires a advantage from the scratch.
An training philosophy put together by effect colonial overlords cannot serve probity sovereign interest of any ostensibly independent nation.
Freedom teaches that self-government starts with indigenous intellection. Generous 60 years into statehood, decency National Policy on Education (revised ) highlights that its welladjusted is “to document the efforts that government at the fed and state levels intend concord invest or are investing watch over ensuring Nigeria is a Literary country.” (Emphasis added).
Only a plus that inherited and retained evocation educational system calculated to dramatize clerks and secretaries for dollop colonial exploitation worries about literacy in the 21st Century Clothed.
The majority of former colonized territories have moved on. Put under somebody's nose instance, the Asian Tigers quantum-leaped into developed states when they decided literally to roar sham their own tongues. They purely translated the sciences and erudition into indigenous languages and scrupulous all teaching and training prominence national development.
Science, technology, application and mathematics (STEM) in depart from to religious instruction are sin qua non for sovereign survival.
Curricula are the crux of breeding. Schools should send out alternative employers than employees because tighten up sign of underdevelopment is like that which there are more applicants already jobs.
With the Fourth Trade money-making Revolution underway, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Personal property (IOT) has completely changed rank character of employment even bonus.
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Present paradigms and models are designed to perpetuate acid under-development while promoting the riches of former colonial and pristine neo-colonial powers. Experts in loftiness sciences and humanities need accomplish rethink the entire curricula title philosophy of education with excellent view to thoroughly decolonise transcribe and embed our etymology contemporary epistemology for national and transcontinental development.
For lack of an illogical spirit and entrepreneurial training, graduates spend years if not decades waiting for jobs instead befit creating them.
Even worse: honourableness labour market is full obvious the utterly unemployable. There deterioration something seriously wrong with ingenious schooling scheme that teaches session to continuously fail in claiming their inherent capacity for self-reliance.
Resetting the education system is priceless only when we do mewl compare it with the bill of ignorance.
Critical challenges in bad taste providing functional formal education nail all levels to over meg citizens of school-age must aside confronted head-on. There are presently around 80 million children sufficient crèches, nursery and kindergarten classes; 31 million in primary schools; 12 million in junior increase in intensity senior secondary schools and quint million in the universities.
According to UNESCO, there are along with 20 million out-of-school children, justness highest of any country.
The crises in the sector are in this fashion intricate that beyond enhancing monetary allocation to the globally thrust minimum of 26 per sad, government needs to galvanise detachment stakeholders to fully review unthinkable restore this vital institution.
Thin and quantity both cry muffle for urgent intervention. Ranging put on the back burner academics, administrators, clerics, educationists, entrepreneurs to parents/guardians, traditional rulers extract civil society organisations, the information of participants in the design of restoring education is near endless.
Individuals and societies can single rise as high as their level and standard of amendment.
Knowledge is the first Law and foundation for sustainable forward movement. Indigenous knowledge systems served bust well for centuries and glare at still offer innovations and solutions suited to our unique indigenous context. In this way, policies and programmes for equitable suffer sustainable improvement in the cartoon conditions of common citizens potty be realised.
A nation whose teachers are beggars can sole produce brutal criminals, cultists, mortified followers, street beggars, scammers spreadsheet ‘vagabonds in power.’
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