#SexForGrades and our obsession with credentials

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SexForGrades and our obsession with credentials

Africa hidden camera footage showing university lecturers abuse their power, it confirmed to me what I already know: employers place too much emphasis on university degrees and grades and it is hurting the continent. Our education-to-employment system is so broken that some lecturers take advantage of the desperation of young people to possess a tertiary degree for fear they will be blocked out of the formal economy for the rest of their lives.

A colleague of mine once shared that in her private university in Benin, an estimated 50% of graduates paid to influence their grades/degree outcomes. Everyone knows the lecturers who accept or demand bribes, she said, and so from day one, you pick and choose your courses based on whether you intend to “pay to play” or “go it alone”.

It’s time to rethink and rewire our education-to-employment system so it starts to focus on competencies young people are developing inside of traditional classrooms and institutions and starts to screen them IN for those competencies instead of screening them OUT for lack of credentials .

 

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