BY AYOOLA OLAITAN
What has become a serious source of worry to many
Nigerians is the failed educational system. When the topic a failed educational
system comes where do one start from or how do one respond to such statement?
Is it the deteriorating system, where lecturers can’t
justify what they are paid for or how students are taught what is not relevant
in a real situation and are always bombarded with assignments that they are yet
to be taught in class. Or the absurd
6-3-3-4 system of education, whereas in other countries they are embracing the
new form education where you can round up your higher education in two years or
less instead of the unnecessary elongated four years minimum course of study.
It is so unfortunate, a situation where the management
of an institution fail to employ more hands or qualified lecturers, those
employed are no longer teaching based on their specialty or specialized field
of study thereby turning an higher institution of learning into a secondary
school, oh! I remember a lecturer few months ago saying name a course I can’t
teach you in this department, one would wonder if that is how wide such
lecturer is vast in knowledge. The education system as failed even with the
lack of proper teaching infrastructure.
Regrettably, the system as also produced unemployable
graduate, like one of lecturer will say “there are jobs out there but there are
no skilled graduate to take up the jobs”. I remember a final year student of Mass
Communication who cannot cast a headline not to talk of writing a publishable
news story. Where do we begin from now?
Another worrisome aspect of this failed system is the
dichotomy between the University and Polytechnic in the labour market. The
stereotype created around attending such institutions and the kind of
qualification awarded as indeed affected the educational system. Who is then to
be blame?
After five
years in the Polytechnic and one cannot get a reasonable pay simply because of
the kind of school one attended. After my second year in school my then
roommate was fortunate to have secured a place for his Internship Training
(IT), after few weeks of work he realized the discrimination between him and
those who are from the University for Same training despite him been better on
the field. He got discouraged, completed the training and had to enroll for a
University program after spending three years in the polytechnic.
Is the solution now for government to allow for
equality in qualification or are they going to allow this dichotomy to totally
collapse the standard of our education system?
Is there really a standard?
Is opting for a better quality education thereby travelling
overseas a better option, now what then become of those who cannot afford to
school abroad?
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