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Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Hotfreezers: 4:05pm On May 31, 2019 |
Pojomojo:
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Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Planet3xi: 4:06pm On May 31, 2019 |
I've interviewed and spoken with over 300 in the past three years and not more than 5 scored 55% in my books. There's need to declare a state of emergency |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Fantazy(m): 4:06pm On May 31, 2019 |
Hmmm. wat a pity! |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by enemyofprogress: 4:06pm On May 31, 2019 |
I asked a female candidate what her aspirations were if money was not a restraining factor. Her answer left all of us on the interview panel with mouths wide open. "I want to live large and live big", she told us. that one must be a Igbo 3 Likes |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by ogongogames(m): 4:06pm On May 31, 2019 |
This goes beyond the "tertiary" education. The foundation is not solid. Correct usage of grammar, spellings etc in sentences should have been learnt before one enters secondary school. 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Timekeeper: 4:07pm On May 31, 2019 |
The post is useful i just learnt alot from this.... God shud help us in this nation... I really learnt a lot.. Thanks so much sir 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Hotfreezers: 4:09pm On May 31, 2019 |
Planet3xi: As far back as 12 years ago, we've had this problem. In 2007, my Dad interviewed candidates for promotion into a senior rank in a Federal security agency. He told us different horror tales of what many graduates had become. The most striking one was that of someone with an MSC in Geography who didn't know the difference between a lake and an island. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by erifeoluwasimi(f): 4:10pm On May 31, 2019 |
The foundation something affect the building laid on it......amukun eru ewoo. Oni oke le wo e wo isale Meaning Disabled man your loads are not well placed He responded that you have been looking at my loads you didn't notice my legs |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Hotfreezers: 4:10pm On May 31, 2019 |
Timekeeper: Bro, don't look at it like that. The fact that you're reading this shows you're very lucky to know what is expected and how to improve. 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Planet3xi: 4:11pm On May 31, 2019 |
Hotfreezers: LMFAO. It started way before them . it started when some hard working folks would read and Jamdlb and Waec would sell their results 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by klever18(m): 4:12pm On May 31, 2019 |
Gun can end terror but education can end terrosim |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Patosky4U: 4:15pm On May 31, 2019 |
this is informative..... |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Timekeeper: 4:16pm On May 31, 2019 |
Hotfreezers: Pls Unquote me.. I wana edit it.. I just read it and I feel sorry for the economy and youths.. Pls Unquote me. Pls i wana edit my statement |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by oduademonest: 4:17pm On May 31, 2019 |
Another Yeibo doofus, you have to mention SW, isn't it? 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Timekeeper: 4:17pm On May 31, 2019 |
Hotfreezers: I just edited it.. Pls kindly Unquote me.. Plsssss |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Gabbyayo(m): 4:20pm On May 31, 2019 |
Sad truth. These stuffs are not really the fault of the university lecturers or system because most of our folks had a very poor academic foundation especially those that kept jumping classes and leaving their old school for a new school which would admit them in a higher class. Also the individual which have refused to self improve themselves, although some don’t even recognize a mistake when they make one. I’m not perfect but I’ll keep learning 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by InvertedHammer: 4:20pm On May 31, 2019 |
/ Don't blame the students, blame the society. Most emphasis are placed on titles, degrees, certificates. Who doesn't want to be addressed as Chief(Mrs) Dr. Arch. Pharm Adeniyi Musa? So the schools are filling the void by dashing out certificates and letting the students deal with the hard knocks of life themselves. Nigeria is not developed enough for folks to thrive on social sciences. Everyone needs a skill, a marketable ones like IT, masonry, electrician, automobile repair, etc. Fancy grammar hardly puts food on the table. / 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Hotfreezers: 4:24pm On May 31, 2019 |
Timekeeper: Done bro |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Nukilia: 4:25pm On May 31, 2019 |
InvertedHammer: You are right! |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by GrammarNazi1(m): 4:26pm On May 31, 2019 |
olisasegun:...repeated...three times...university... 2 Likes |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by qanda: 4:28pm On May 31, 2019 |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by SocialJustice: 4:29pm On May 31, 2019 |
kstyle2:I believe the problem rests in the proliferation of cheap private secondary schools and universities with lecturers who don't care. |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by qanda: 4:30pm On May 31, 2019 |
One of the ways we consider to remedy the situation is to build an Educational App. Check it out on Playstore.
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Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Laid2001: 4:36pm On May 31, 2019 |
I would have allowed this to pass as a commentary on the general state of our education, but for the second item on the write-up. The op stated that the graduates from private universities are better than those from the federal universities. I beg to disagree. While, there has been a general degradation in our educational system in Nigeria, I still maintained that the Federal Universities are by far better than the private ones in Nigeria of today. This may be because of my area and industry as a whole but my experience is at complete variance with what the op said. I do sit on the interview panel for my company once in a while, as a technical assessor for engineering recruits, but that is not the only source of my assertion. I am a member of the society of petroleum engineers and we have two major competitions, the PETROBOWL and PETROQUIZ that we organize for the various universities in Nigeria. The winner in Nigeria normally goes ahead to represent Nigeria at the international competition normally during the ATCE outside Nigeria (mostly in US). The competition has always been won by Federal Universities, in fact Uniben has won the international competition before and that was the only time a Nigerian university won it. We also use to assess the petroleum engineering departments of universities in Nigeria and I can tell you that the private universities have a long way to go to catch up with the Federal ones. Now, that leaves the state owned universities in between. Many are useless and are just universities in name and a few are good. Yet, no Nigerian University is where they are meant to be in the comity of schools on the world stage. 6 Likes |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by huslercross(m): 4:37pm On May 31, 2019 |
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO EDUCATIVE I LEARNT A LOT FROM THIS 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by okezuoemmanue(m): 4:38pm On May 31, 2019 |
I teach Physics in a government secondary school employed via the N-Power program . A secondary school that doesn't have English, Maths, Chemistry teachers. They still seat for Waec and don't ask me if the credit their papers ooo. cos YES they do. that tells me the level of decay in our education sector |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by ppogba: 4:42pm On May 31, 2019 |
If you have never being on an interview panel before, you will never know how terrible the situation is. I remember when we asked a graduate of Economics to differentiate between Micro and Macro Economics and hell was let loose. An undergrad of Mathematics was asked to mention the third angle of a triangle after Adjacent and Opposite and she was like..... The truth is, the situation is almost irredeemable and when HR people are raising the alarm, people in authority should listen. Possible cause? Very poor primary foundation. (Those grads from private unis that the OP said performed better had the better of primary edu) Corrupt secondary and tertiary education system. Students not knowing that there are days of reckoning waiting for the outside the 4 walls of the uni. Non existing leadership especially by having a round peg in a square hole. Solution: Follow what the holy spirit tells you. 1 Like |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by Suelove(f): 4:51pm On May 31, 2019 |
Timekeeper: The post is really nice. However, this is one of the issues he pointed at (unnecessary abbreviation). In the same Urban Dictionary where shud stands for should, it also means shut up. I believe we can still educate ourselves even if the university system fails. In addition, I believe in God but the statement "God should help us" has been overused. It seems we are just too lazy to leave our comfort zone. Lastly, I believe we can make good use of social media to develop our writing skill. Please, don't be offended. |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by hustla(m): 4:51pm On May 31, 2019 |
LOL and they keep insulting private university peeps on nairaland smh Covenant Uni>. Any federal sch |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by emkz: 4:51pm On May 31, 2019 |
I think a related matter was discussed in Journalists Hangout on TVC yesterday or the day before. Someone here mentioned that the foundation is wrong and stated that the teachers are not committed. In advanced countries, people with doctorates are secondary (high) school teachers. In Nigeria, a lot of lecturers, teachers and even policemen would do something else if they had an alternative. That said, I think what the OP opined is a generalized systemic problem, with the education sector just a microcosm of the tragedy. My proposal is to alter the dynamics of the education system from the secondary school. For instance, it is important that high-schoolers are asked what they like to do in life so that they can be appropriately guided to take the right decisions. It is not educationally wise for someone who is good at artwork to be forced to learn dy/dx or surface and volume integrals or tensor algebra. Find out each student's strengths and build on them. Also, vocational education needs to be emphasized. Car repairers (mechanics), tailors, electricians, drivers, plumbers, retaurateurs, chefs, welders, etc., need to be awarded certificates of apprenticeship by universities with their bosses as their supervisors and accredited lecturers affiliated to the universities. I would also be happy if boys who are trained by their ogas in the Igbo Business Model (which has been successful over the years) are also given these certificates. This way, we encourage people that not attending university in the conventional sense does not reduce their status in the society. Also, we create people who are job-creators and not job-seekers. Finally, the educational system needs a total overhaul. I was at the University of Benin and they were running generators. I asked if they didn't have a department of power engineering or a professor of power engineering to produce electricity to power essential departments in the university. My point is that we have sufficient problems in Nigeria to serve as training incubators for our lecturers and students by channeling our university curricula to them and train students who would be employers of labour instead of being employees. This model I read is being used in Switzerland. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by hustla(m): 4:52pm On May 31, 2019 |
ppogba: Sometimes it's stage fright, been there before Other times, applicants can be really dumb |
Re: Sorry State of Education in Nigeria by tck2000(m): 4:57pm On May 31, 2019 |
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