NIGERIAN GRADUATES ARE JUST ENGLISH SPEAKERS AND MASTERS OF THEORY BUT NO PRACTICAL OR ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS, OUR CURRICULUM IS OUTDATED SAYS -(GANDUJE )
Ganduje’s comments were made at a time when millions of young Nigerians are fighting to find respectable work as the country’s unemployment crisis worsens.
He claims that because the existing curriculum does not give pupils the skills they need to compete in the modern labour market, unemployment rates are on the rise.Ganduje’s comments come at a time when millions of young people in Nigeria are fighting to find respectable work due to the country’s escalating unemployment crisis.
Speaking at the opening of the party’s National Youth Leader, Dayo Israel,’s Enterprise Skills Development Training (EDET) programme for youths in Lagos, Ganduje expressed his belief that Nigeria would produce graduates who are not only theoretically sound but also practically equipped to drive innovation, entrepreneurship, and societal progress by adopting a skills-based approach.
The immediate past governor of Kano State, Chief Emma Eneukwu, who was represented at the event by the Deputy National Chairman (South), called for a radical revision of Nigeria’s educational curriculum, citing the country’s high unemployment rates and societal vices as a result of its emphasis on theoretical learning.
He bemoaned the fact that, in contrast to their counterparts in nations like China and India, where the learning of skills is incorporated into the curriculum from primary school through secondary school, Nigerian graduates are proficient in English but lack practical skills.
“In Nigeria today, our curriculum is on theories,” he stated. We produce graduates who are masters of theory but lack the abilities necessary to pursue entrepreneurship. The talents necessary to develop anything that will aid in the services provided by society are lacking in our graduates.
Because there was inadequate skill development in the postsecondary institutions they attended, they wind up engaging in various vices.
“We generate graduates who are incapable of developing anything useful to society; they are simply proficient in speaking English.
They are only able to claim to be able to speak English.
“Changing the curriculum is the only way we can make it right.
How can we make it different? It is our responsibility to incorporate practical learning and skill development into the curriculum.
