Director-General, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, Dr Timothy Olawale, in this interview with ’FEMI ASU, speaks on the high rate of unemployment in the country; the gap between the academia and the industry; the impact of COVID-19 on businesses and how to boost job creationNational Bureau of Statistics said last year that the unemployment rate in Nigeria rose to 27.1 per cent in the second quarter, while underemployment increased to 28.6 per cent.
The major challenge for employers remains the availability of quality and employable manpower. Skill is fundamental for the efficient operation of an enterprise. Thus, businesses require skilled and competent individuals to fill relevant roles and functions in the business. The mismatch between our academic curriculum and industrial needs could be said to broaden the challenges.
The controversy on the employability or non-employability of Nigerian graduates has raged for a long time. While the argument and actual measure of the gap can be relative, the fact remains that the current academic curriculum in most Nigerian tertiary institutions does not align with the critical skills needed by the industry.
There is a need for the country to define its developmental policies and align its education priorities to them. Deliberate efforts will be needed to hinge our national development on industrial growth rather than on the current focus on crude oil. Without this major step, the challenge will remain. Again, the science and engineering professions are more practical in nature.
So true
You must liase and collaborate with The Universities to make relevant Corrections
So very true. A lot needs to be taken out as they are now irrelevant. And certainly newer models included.
And now you are taking it virtual without Proper plan, it only just going to get worst now.
So what's the way forward na? Is school really scam?
Those my lecturers back then will be giving you note off hand and we go sey ' that man is brilliant ' lolz... na lie . Na same note wey alaye don dey use since 1986 he still dey you. Nothing updated there...
Too much of book book all the Time without doing the real life work on ground, hence it amuses me when people look down on HND holders
My lecturer who schooled in the late 90s used the class note he wrote that year to teach us in 2015.
And whose fault is that?
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Even with that, the lecturers are worse at doing their job
NUC has refused to evolve and live up to its responsibilities in this area. Courses should be geared towards emerging and future man power needs in Nigeria. We produce too many unemployable graduates who have degrees that are useless in the work place.
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We know this since plus its not like we have industries to actually feild in university graduates either.
You know and have not corrected it since
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No be today,dem teach me Fortran and basic back then,I believe that course still dey that school.
the real question is who are they educating for? when they come to that realization, then there will be a real change
This is true
And no plans for that.
All our theses no de pass HOD office.
This is 100%
I totally agree
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It’s actually the converse. Nigeria does not have enough industrial needs to match what output the tertiary curriculum generates
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