Nigerian Graduates Unfit for Employment?

1. To a large extent, it's true because of the half baked graduate our high institutions pour out yearly. But that doesn't mean that it's all correct.

2. Personally, I don't believe in throwing blames but if I should point out some of the causes then I would say it's caused by:-
    (i)  The govt's insensitivity to education.
    (ii) The present economy, which is really demanding.
    (iii) Many lazy undergraduates pay their way through sch. if you know what I mean and at the end of it all they come out with great result that they can't defend.

3. The remedies of the aforementioned it's simply their opposites.

Peaz out!

@kazey, i hope you should be able to see what am talking about now.

The issue is not about govt. now funding these universities, it's about peoples mentality about education, youngsters here think education is all about certificate. They believe a certifcate is their passport to a good job, now the table has turned, the jobs are no longer there.

Until we can all come to thinking about what we need and not what we want the whole thing will countinue to get worse.

My believe is this, education is not about certificate, it's about what you know.

The current FRCN director said one thing which is very interesting to me, he said that since his father can't afford to send him to school, he said he asked himself one day that which school did the first educated man go to? None was the answer. He said since that day he decided to study on his own, he made good grades in his external exam and today he has succeeded in resurrecting  the moribund Radio Nigeria.

Nigerian students need a general overhaul in their perspective about what education is, education is not about the "paper"(certificate).

@kazey, well kpali is good when you know what that kpali certifies.

HAHAHAHA i can stop laughing. Man you are them funny. hehehe. Certified Suffer heads.

@seun, what i mean by certify is that you should be able to perform creditably well in a field/career that that certificate is saying you have study.

if we talk about the hardship graduates went through that's not a criteria for getting a degree, how about some that went through all that and go home with nothing, and how about those that buy "(whichever means)"  their way all through.

Maybe you should ask, those that just want the Kpali, what they plan to do after they graduate. That would be more proper. If i am not a guy that looks forward to using my degree to work, why would i go through all the hassles, of trying to get the best of the best, when i know well that that area is not my area of passion?

hehehe. No man, I love information technology, but the idea of University education is hard to whole heartedly embrace with passion. And by the way my grades are really good currently.

What I really wished i was studying?. Hum? Something more of the management line, Finance? Business Administration etc.

My parents don't have a say on what i study in the university. Just that its too late to be thinking of changing, I already changed once. From Telecommunication Engineering to Information Systems.And saying i want to change again is not really a good idea.

The real problem with the quality of our graduates is not the students, but the educational system which empasises only reading and writing without much challenge on creativity and inventiveness. I was looking at my former university website a few days back and they were still running the same courses (title and descriptions) I did 15 years ago. The curriculum has not been updated in 15 years. Why?.....do we really have lecturers? (most lecturers and teachers are there by accident, after repeated failures to get other jobs or "ja" for good). Its a system in absolute decay that needs serious overhauling. You can only get maggots from rotten meat. Enough blame on the students. If the system is good (this doesnt have to do with economy, for goodness sake - Curriculum needs overhauling max every 5 years....its a basic requirement), the graduates wont be soo bad...

iv been saying it and i'll keep saying it
Nigeria has a problem that i doubt can be solved
the system of evrything is messed up
well we that are still looking for admission into UNI
still have a long way to go

What I want to know is if we still have Universities in Nigeria. If we do, how many can really be called Universities?

I can't say much about the new Priv. Uniz we have now but majority of the Univerisities we have now are scraps! 

Imagine studying an engineering course and never been inside a LAB! What will you be able to defend if you come out of the system?

I still pity those who rely solely on the worthless pali they acquire from the University. The future is really BLEAK for those who can't see beyond that paper.

God go helep us all sha.

Anyway this is my first post on this forum!

Bola

Good for you my guy. I'm sure you went to a nice school.

Our concern is the majority sha that pay their way to get the palis and couldn't defend it.

How can i naija student be fit for employment when he can't even use a computer. He can't use basic software applications such as Microsoft Excel and they can't even type proficiently (if they press A, it would take them a long time to find B on the same keyboard) talkless of using Microsoft Word. They are not even fit for the technical or science field when they can even use C++ or even JAVA.