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No Course in Nigeria’s Universities Has Expired

Posted by: Benjamin Onuorah

A REJOINDER TO MR. ADESOLA ADEFEMI OJUOLAPE
On Your Article: "Most Courses in Nigeria's Universities Have Expired"

By Professor Emeritus Olawale Adetokunbo Ajayi
Professor of Human Capital and Comparative Education

My dear Adesola,

I read your piece with a mixture of pain, nostalgia and professional concern. I have been in this system for decades - as a student in the analogue era of cyclostyle notes, as a lecturer when we typed with typewriters, as a Head of Department when internet came, and now as an emeritus watching my former students code from their bedrooms in Yaba and Berlin. So I understand your anger. It is valid. But as an elder in this house, let me offer you a more surgical diagnosis, not just a lamentation.

You are 70% correct and 30% incomplete. And that 30% is where the danger lies if we mislead our youth.

WHERE YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

You have touched the raw nerve of our universities. I cannot defend what is indefensible.

1. Our curriculum delivery is indeed colonial in structure: We still run a 70% theory, 30% practical model when global standard since Bologna Process and NUC CCMAS is 40% theory, 60% skills.
2. Employability data supports you: National Bureau of Statistics reported youth underemployment at over 80% for arts and humanities graduates. World Bank Human Capital Review ranked Nigeria among the lowest in graduate skill-match in Africa.
3. You are right about cheap courses In many private universities, History, Political Science, Sociology cost almost zero to run - no lab, no studio, no farm - yet students pay huge sums per session. That is rent-seeking, not education.

I taught such a course in my early years. I am ashamed to say the note I used then was still being used by a colleague many years ...[Continue Reading]



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