The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday said tertiary education system in the country “is severely and dangerously lacking in capabilities needed to build a nation.”

He said a decline in the quality of scholarship and academic output and of the graduates coming out of tertiary institutions were the clearest confirmation that Nigerian tertiary institutions lacked the capacity to build a nation that would survive through the current moment of change and turbulence.

Gbajabiamila spoke in Osogbo, Osun State, while delivering the 1st Tunde Ponnle Annual Lecture titled, ‘Building a Tertiary Truly 21st Century University: Task Beyond Government,’ held on the main campus of the Osun State University.

Suggesting solutions to the problems, Gbajabiamila said issues of curriculum and teaching methods, as well as fair assessment, should be part of any reform considerations.

He called for a review of curricula and teaching methods with a view to situating Nigerian practices in the context of global labour needs.


Gbajabiamila said, “Collaborations between our higher institutions and the organised private sector is vital to carry out the essential work of engagement, research and review that is required at this time to bridge the gaps in our knowledge.

“We need to do this as a necessary precursor to focusing national attention on these issues so that we can jointly rise to the demands of the moment. This is an objective that we cannot, for the sake of our future, leave to government.”

Omooba77:

https://punchng.com/nigerias-tertiary-institutions-lack-capacity-to-solve-problems-gbajabiamila/

hisgrace090:
Not far from truth as most of those appointed to manage the school are busy using their pesciouse time to sleep with girls boasting how untouchable they're.

Omooba77:

https://punchng.com/nigerias-tertiary-institutions-lack-capacity-to-solve-problems-gbajabiamila/

nabegibeg:
Just as your kind have bastardized our educational system, politicized everything that has to do with education.

Favour your unqualified cronies and their wards with lecturing jobs in our universities.

Unqualified lecturers who does not know the value of research project and how to assess students on it because politicians favoured them with lecturing jobs.

It is only in this country that a professor will rig an election for an illiterate

InvertedHammer:
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We know.

Too many "cram and vomit" graduates parading certificates worth as much as the paper it is printed on.

No experience. No corporations in Nigeria to absorb them for real life applications.

But they are the first to remind you that they are graduates and come online to debate with the oracle.

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GreenArrow1:
very true. Especially with the way you dolts in power budget so little for Education, Research and Development.