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Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Nnaeb(m): 8:45am On Jul 19, 2015
• Philosophy
• Zoology
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Linguistics
• International Relations
• Combined Social Sciences
• Archaeology
• Public Administration (which public?)
• Banking and Finance
• Political Science
• Estate Management (which Estate abeg?)
• Religion
• Insurance
• Marketing
• Physics and astronomy ( There is nothing astronomical about this course in Nigeria)
• Botany
• Library Science
• Corporative Economics

If the federal government are not doing anything by now to scrap this courses from our universities, then it means our economic liberation as a nation is still far-fetched. This courses should be replaced with the courses below. Not as a vocational program now, but as a degree program. Nigerians don’t like to identify with anything vocational, they love to go for ‘NYSC’.
• Software Development
• Welding and Fabrication
• Fashion Designing
• Concrete Finishing (Plastering, Screading, Painting, Tiles)
• Interior designing and Decoration
• Security Systems Technology
• Wood Finishing
• Road Construction Tech
• Leather Extraction and Finishing
• Cinematography and Movie making
• Advanced Programming
• Furniture making
• Solar Engineering
• Automation Engineering
• Hospitality Management
• Waste Management and Recycling Tech
• Web Development and Management
• Graphics, Branding and Industrial Printing
• Plant technology and Herbal sciences
• Content development and Research

If we can embrace this, unemployment will be reduced drastically.
Brown Uzoukwu, (jobtrends.com.ng)

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Abugab(m): 8:49am On Jul 19, 2015
Wrong

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by izuch(m): 8:49am On Jul 19, 2015
Na the whole courses wey our universities dey offer be that nah? angry

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by donholy28(m): 8:51am On Jul 19, 2015
In otherwords no more courses and no more universities... olodo op

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by ibkgab001: 8:52am On Jul 19, 2015
Not possible

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Pineapp: 8:54am On Jul 19, 2015
Nnaeb:
• Philosophy
• Zoology
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Linguistics
• International Relations
• Combined Social Sciences
• Archaeology
• Public Administration (which public?)
• Banking and Finance
• Political Science
• Estate Management (which Estate abeg?)
• Religion
• Insurance
• Marketing
• Physics and astronomy ( There is nothing astronomical about this course in Nigeria)
• Botany
• Library Science
• Corporative Economics

If the federal government are not doing anything by now to scrap this courses from our universities, then it means our economic liberation as a nation is still far-fetched. This courses should be replaced with the courses below. Not as a vocational program now, but as a degree program. Nigerians don’t like to identify with anything vocational, they love to go for ‘NYSC’.
• Software Development
• Welding and Fabrication
• Fashion Designing
• Concrete Finishing (Plastering, Screading, Painting, Tiles)
• Interior designing and Decoration
• Security Systems Technology
• Wood Finishing
• Road Construction Tech
• Leather Extraction and Finishing
• Cinematography and Movie making
• Advanced Programming
• Furniture making
• Solar Engineering
• Automation Engineering
• Hospitality Management
• Waste Management and Recycling Tech
• Web Development and Management
• Graphics, Branding and Industrial Printing
• Plant technology and Herbal sciences
• Content development and Research

If we can embrace this, unemployment will be reduced drastically.
Brown Uzoukwu, (jobtrends.com.ng)
MEANINGLESS assertion .

Rather we need people to embrace and explore those courses to hasten development in this country..

Enough of the law,engineering,doctor madness...

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Bilabong(m): 8:56am On Jul 19, 2015
Ur opinion don't matter.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Fynestboi: 9:05am On Jul 19, 2015
Say wetin. This Op needs help asap.... undecided

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by amani337(m): 9:10am On Jul 19, 2015
botany should be de first to be scrap out
Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by rattlesnake(m): 9:14am On Jul 19, 2015
Ha hahahahaha abi I agree ooooo

We need to introduce

Bachelor in whatsapp

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Eleniyan15: 9:17am On Jul 19, 2015
this guy funny oooooo
sociology of all course you wan comot
I laff in Pakistan ..I really love the course you want to be approved in the varsity... buh trust me Sociology will never be scrapped...

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by boboLIL(m): 9:18am On Jul 19, 2015
Op don't be so stupid nxt time

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by abubaka101: 9:40am On Jul 19, 2015
Op did u critically reason wat each of these courses entails?
Abi you just woke up and thought all of dem were useless?
Do you knw wat estate management is all about?
It's extremely dumb to think dat Int'l Relations and any economics subdiscipline is a waste of time.
Wise up young man, and enlighten yourself...

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by adexdon(m): 10:18am On Jul 19, 2015
op u nid to scrapped too

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Nobody: 10:20am On Jul 19, 2015
The Op has a point and I get what he is driving at....

But bringing this to reality...you need to understand that the courses u listed as useless and should be scrapped are actually what universities re there for in the first place.

The second list of courses u put there are very vital also, but they re actually what COLLEGES are established for. And by colleges, I don't mean secondary schools....

Now, what colleges do is that they train you on how best to do things and when, universities teach you the theory behind why things re done that way and how to improve it.

What we should push for is a system where everyone is made to do some years in colleges before moving to the uni if still interested.


Truth be told...colleges make you an entrepreneur, universities make u a consultant....so in Nigeria today...we have 99% consultants and 1% performers....so who will employ who? Food for thought.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by raayah(f): 10:21am On Jul 19, 2015
I think our public universities themselves sgould be scraped.

Both Op all jokes aside. All those courses are useful. Even the aatronomy, he can use it to further his studies in other countries.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by vantage7: 10:21am On Jul 19, 2015
Okay OP, I see your point. We are in such a dire situation in this country development-wise that Zoology for instance or Art shouldn't be of major concern to us. Matter of fact, we should tone down on pure science research courses for now (eg. Mathematics) because there's a lot of already researched knowledge in those fields in the world that we haven't even put to use yet. So it should be more of practice-based courses of study for us until we catch up with the world and we know we can. But rather than scrap those courses (they have their uses) we should drastically limit the enrollment into them while raising that of the practice-based courses. A BA Linguistics class shouldn't have more than a dozen students IMHO while we should have a class of 50+ Mechanical engineering students. The problem is, it is more difficult to properly train larger numbers in those practice-based courses because they involve lots of laboratory equipment etc. which is a major area of inadequacy in most of our universities, while there's no such requirements for say, Philosophy as long as there's a big enough comfortable lecture theater with a public address system and maybe a projector they can comfortably handle training over a hundred students in a set.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Nobody: 10:23am On Jul 19, 2015
@op wetin you dey study for school wen you take get sense like this...our lecturers ain't qualified to handle these courses for your info.
Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by ShobayoEmma(m): 10:23am On Jul 19, 2015
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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Nobody: 10:23am On Jul 19, 2015
what about fishery, infact, u ft learn fish farming frm street within 2-3months

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Rexphobia(m): 10:23am On Jul 19, 2015
I will only give you my undivided attention if you show me your degree in all those courses.









Ignorance is indeed bliss.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by okhiai1(m): 10:24am On Jul 19, 2015
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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by mohisi: 10:24am On Jul 19, 2015
Nnaeb:
• Philosophy
• Zoology
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Linguistics
• International Relations
• Combined Social Sciences
• Archaeology
• Public Administration (which public?)
• Banking and Finance
• Political Science
• Estate Management (which Estate abeg?)
• Religion
• Insurance
• Marketing
• Physics and astronomy ( There is nothing astronomical about this course in Nigeria)
• Botany
• Library Science
• Corporative Economics

If the federal government are not doing anything by now to scrap this courses from our universities, then it means our economic liberation as a nation is still far-fetched. This courses should be replaced with the courses below. Not as a vocational program now, but as a degree program. Nigerians don’t like to identify with anything vocational, they love to go for ‘NYSC’.
• Software Development
• Welding and Fabrication
• Fashion Designing
• Concrete Finishing (Plastering, Screading, Painting, Tiles)
• Interior designing and Decoration
• Security Systems Technology
• Wood Finishing
• Road Construction Tech
• Leather Extraction and Finishing
• Cinematography and Movie making
• Advanced Programming
• Furniture making
• Solar Engineering
• Automation Engineering
• Hospitality Management
• Waste Management and Recycling Tech
• Web Development and Management
• Graphics, Branding and Industrial Printing
• Plant technology and Herbal sciences
• Content development and Research

If we can embrace this, unemployment will be reduced drastically.
Brown Uzoukwu, (jobtrends.com.ng)
too right am with u

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Nobody: 10:24am On Jul 19, 2015
your suggested courses can be added without scrapping the rest.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by ArmsWilliams: 10:24am On Jul 19, 2015
no does ones should also b included and I think we need technical university in Nigeria
Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Seunpaul01(m): 10:24am On Jul 19, 2015
• Philosophy
• Linguistics
• Banking and Finance
• Political Science
• Estate Management
• Insurance
• Marketing
I dont quite agree wt u on the above. It is only ignorance that made u consider them as not worthy enough to be an area of dicipline.
More also, u can't expect every easy money making career to be a course study in the higher instituition. This shows some attributes of an ignoramus in you. Everybody did not have to go school to study, some have to take the informal form of professions. So, somehow u are also saying vulcanizing should also be a course?
Infact, some of the replacement u put forward are already a course study in school. Ur opinion shows that ur learning is still at 35% (loading)

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Idrismusty97(m): 10:26am On Jul 19, 2015
Nice! The construction/Technology industry should be given higher priority! Courses like Quantity surveying, Architecture, Facility management, Industrial technology etc and most technical courses should be prioritize.... Scholarships/Bursaries should be used as bait to encouraged prospective students, Undergraduate and graduates alike.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Tvegas(m): 10:26am On Jul 19, 2015
@OP You made a lot of sense. Most courses on that list don't have are not marketable in the labor market. Kindly include History, Archeology etc.

For example even Music graduates can get a placement in the banking industry at the expense of a banking and finance graduate.

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Horphemiphor(f): 10:26am On Jul 19, 2015
[color=#000099][/color]U really need to go for brain check up

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Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by WIZGUY69(m): 10:26am On Jul 19, 2015
I de church, will comment later
Re: Opinion: These 20 Courses Should Be Scraped From Our Universities by Aspireahead(m): 10:26am On Jul 19, 2015
Op...you are ignorant and naive. while will you advocate for the scrapping of astronomy and physics, or even Zoology, you should have gone on to add mathematics and English, drama and the arts. for your info, while some of these courses are less lucrative and relevant, basic knowledge of them is appreciated. Political science for me should not have a department, but should be thought as a 3 credit unit course as basic knowledge if the political system is important, this also apply to some other courses mentioned.

the new courses can still be introduced with a lil adjustment as regards the curriculum.

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