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This country and their leaders self..What a nonsense?

Why can't they just reform the varsities and make them better rather than an extra year and resources wasted?

So what happens if the extra year in those special institutions is unproductive, another extra year somewhere else?

I'm convinced this people are selfish and backward thinkers.

The comments serve the old cargoes right. How do you expect a govt that has nothing to offer in every ramification of administration to profer solution to education issue? Imagine a prof making such suggestion or proposal. Are you sure that person merited his professorship award, cos it z rare for a prof to accept being a júnior minister, while a mallam becomes the overall minister. I would rather resign.

tragergeorge:
Its better,extra one year to enjoy, cos after school na der you go know say you are from 9ja, struggle begins with full force

Enjoy what?

Typical Nigerian...Just anything to make survival harder...

In the UK most Engineering courses last for 3 or 5 years with an option of 5 years if you want to graduate with a Master's Degree...

You can imagine! But down here they want to force engineering courses to 6 years after which we are forced to attend NYSC for year...

I don't see the good thing NYSC has done in this country other than waste one year of the lives of a whole lot of people...other countries without these problems are still doing way better...

7 years for engineering, whereas if I were born in the UK/USA I'd have my PhD or a second masters in view...

I think the solution is to do what schools in the UK, USA and others are doing to produce employable graduates. Create conducive learning environment- upgrade classrooms, libraries and laboratories facilities, employ qualified lecturers, train and retrain the existing ones and fund researches adequately.

KORLAR:
Why can't they just reform the varsities and make them better rather than an extra year and resources wasted?

So what happens if the extra year in those special institutions is unproductive, another extra year somewhere else?

I'm convinced this people are selfish and backward thinkers.

Yes, and will the special institutions be able to cater for the thousands of students that graduate yearly?

HigherEd:
By Chidinma Okeke


Tens of thousands of Nigerian students may spend extra year in specialized institutions after graduation to make them employable.
The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, put forward the proposal at the ongoing Retreat for Governing Councils of Nigerian Federal Universities, organized by the National Universities Commission (NUC) with the theme, “Elements of Statutory Governance, Procurement and Financial Accounting in Nigerian Universities.”


He said the suggestion was being made because many university graduates were not good enough to be employed by industries.
“Law students attend Law School for one year before going for NYSC and medical students go for one year Houseman ship before they are allowed to practice fully, so it will be necessary for other courses to also go through this process,” Mr Anwukah said.
“The Lagos Business School can also serve as a one year after-school training,” he added.
“The universities are producing products that are not matching the needs of the industries. I urged the Committee of Pro-chancellors and Committee of Vice-Chancellor to end the decline in the standard of education,” he said.


“The SIWES projects introduced for a year industrial attachment for students has failed in the universities. It is not doing its role in bridging the gap between the universities and the industries,” he said.
He said that re-schooling would serve as a training ground for graduates to be well equipped on the rudiments of the course studied.
In his address, the Chairman of NUC board, Prof. Ayo Banjo, said the quality of Nigerian universities product failed due to poor quality research, saying, a graduate who cannot think properly is unworthy of the certification.


While calling for adequate funding to enable the universities fulfil its mandate, he said the presence of government subventions must be felt and visible in the Nigerian universities to meet and achieve excellence.
Prof Banjo, however urged the Nigerian varsities to open their doors to West African students to help them boost their revenue and also consider additional reform of the curriculum to help produce excellent graduates.


The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed said the fundamental problems facing the university system are poor leadership, general underperformance and inadequate teaching and learning environment.
He said the consequence of poor leadership had undermined the capacity of universities in achieving its mandate.
According to him, the NUC in collaboration with CPC and CVC decided to organise the retreat for the governing council of all 42 federal universities to provide solutions to the problems confronting the universities system.
He therefore urged participants to remain focus in the deliberations and better equip themselves with proper leadership to move the universities forward.


We’re trying to sell an idea - Prof Anwukah
Contacted by Daily Trust to throw more light on the proposal, the minister said: “We are trying to sell an idea, the proposal is to get into our university system the re-schooling concept, that is you finish your university degree may be add one more year as a finishing school project, I don’t know how it is going to sell ... but the idea has come as a result of the failure of SIWES system in the universities.


“We try to address the relationship between the universities, the industries and the graduates, how they can fit in and we introduced the SIWES project and it is not working and it is not providing that bridge between the industries because the most industries are unwilling to accept most students on the SIWES programme.


“We want to brainstorm and see whether we can add one additional year so that when a student finishes from the university he can now go out to industries for one year internship for that job. For instance, the law department had one extra year after the law programme they go to law school, doctors go for one additional year.


“Are we going to continue with the SIWESS experiment which is not working or we are going to brace up to introduce an additional year of re-school whereby you spend that one year in any industry.
For instance, the Lagos Business School can serve as one year learning experience for students in business, accountancy and others, the NTA school in Jos can handle that of journalists
Experts’ reaction


Professor of Developmental Education, University of Abuja, Prof Salisu Ingawa said that is not the solution and it may never work.
“Who is going to do it, it is capital intensive, how long will it take to come to practice? So all these graduates will be waiting till such institutions are set so that they can get employed,” he said.
He pointed out that the proposed Technology Village which has not been developed should have been able to address such challenge.


“That is why the industries are crying out that graduates of Nigeria are of no value to them because when they employ them they have to retrain them at a very high cost.
He noted that the synergy between the producers of manpower and the end users is not there, saying, “even if they send them for that one year, who will make the input of the content of what these graduates will be doing in the institutions or whatever he calls it, and who is going to pay for the services there, is it the employer?”
According to him, over 50 per cent of the graduates are employed by the public sector, adding that it.


“It should be the smallest sector, ie the private sector is the largest employer but in Nigeria the private sector is narrowing by the day because the ease of doing business in Nigeria is very difficult.”
He however said the immediate solution is partnership with the industries which is the end user.
He called for review of curriculum of universities because knowledge is dynamic and changing by seconds.


A professor of communication at Bayero University Kano, (BUK) Prof Umaru Pate said it might be difficult but that, it is ideal but the implementation is going to be problematic.
Prof Pate said the industries to absolve the graduate when they come may not be readily available and that could mean that the candidates would have to line up for them to be absolved.


He said: “The availability of the supervisors to be taken to the industries is yet another issue and who will pay for their participation in the system because right now some SIWES that some of the departments participate in are experiencing some challenges or do you expect the students to also raise the money or the government to start another NYSC, so the issue of finance is a problem."


On the solution , he said one probable way of doing it is to encourage the various departments especially those professionally inclined to strengthen their industrial attachment and that could mean separating the attachment maybe from 100 level to say 300 level to spend three months in the industry and the rest of the period in the school.
The Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof Nasiru Idris said the proposal is not something new.


“You may wish to know that, already Environmental courses, engineering courses, medical courses are all running five year programmes and also, all courses in the Universities of Technology in Nigeria are 5 years programmes and the reason for this is to compliment theories with practice,” he said.
“In developed countries, degree programs are 3 years and they produce the best with no even the so called industrial attachment. Furthermore, government should declare state of emergency in the education sector.” he added.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/amplite/minister-wants-one-year-reschooling-for-graduates.html

Extra year for what nonexistent jobs? These people son play penalty go throwin, den dey sleep on okada sef!

HigherEd:
By Chidinma Okeke


Tens of thousands of Nigerian students may spend extra year in specialized institutions after graduation to make them employable.
The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, put forward the proposal at the ongoing Retreat for Governing Councils of Nigerian Federal Universities, organized by the National Universities Commission (NUC) with the theme, “Elements of Statutory Governance, Procurement and Financial Accounting in Nigerian Universities.”


He said the suggestion was being made because many university graduates were not good enough to be employed by industries.
“Law students attend Law School for one year before going for NYSC and medical students go for one year Houseman ship before they are allowed to practice fully, so it will be necessary for other courses to also go through this process,” Mr Anwukah said.
“The Lagos Business School can also serve as a one year after-school training,” he added.
“The universities are producing products that are not matching the needs of the industries. I urged the Committee of Pro-chancellors and Committee of Vice-Chancellor to end the decline in the standard of education,” he said.


“The SIWES projects introduced for a year industrial attachment for students has failed in the universities. It is not doing its role in bridging the gap between the universities and the industries,” he said.
He said that re-schooling would serve as a training ground for graduates to be well equipped on the rudiments of the course studied.
In his address, the Chairman of NUC board, Prof. Ayo Banjo, said the quality of Nigerian universities product failed due to poor quality research, saying, a graduate who cannot think properly is unworthy of the certification.


While calling for adequate funding to enable the universities fulfil its mandate, he said the presence of government subventions must be felt and visible in the Nigerian universities to meet and achieve excellence.
Prof Banjo, however urged the Nigerian varsities to open their doors to West African students to help them boost their revenue and also consider additional reform of the curriculum to help produce excellent graduates.


The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed said the fundamental problems facing the university system are poor leadership, general underperformance and inadequate teaching and learning environment.
He said the consequence of poor leadership had undermined the capacity of universities in achieving its mandate.
According to him, the NUC in collaboration with CPC and CVC decided to organise the retreat for the governing council of all 42 federal universities to provide solutions to the problems confronting the universities system.
He therefore urged participants to remain focus in the deliberations and better equip themselves with proper leadership to move the universities forward.


We’re trying to sell an idea - Prof Anwukah
Contacted by Daily Trust to throw more light on the proposal, the minister said: “We are trying to sell an idea, the proposal is to get into our university system the re-schooling concept, that is you finish your university degree may be add one more year as a finishing school project, I don’t know how it is going to sell ... but the idea has come as a result of the failure of SIWES system in the universities.


“We try to address the relationship between the universities, the industries and the graduates, how they can fit in and we introduced the SIWES project and it is not working and it is not providing that bridge between the industries because the most industries are unwilling to accept most students on the SIWES programme.


“We want to brainstorm and see whether we can add one additional year so that when a student finishes from the university he can now go out to industries for one year internship for that job. For instance, the law department had one extra year after the law programme they go to law school, doctors go for one additional year.


“Are we going to continue with the SIWESS experiment which is not working or we are going to brace up to introduce an additional year of re-school whereby you spend that one year in any industry.
For instance, the Lagos Business School can serve as one year learning experience for students in business, accountancy and others, the NTA school in Jos can handle that of journalists
Experts’ reaction


Professor of Developmental Education, University of Abuja, Prof Salisu Ingawa said that is not the solution and it may never work.
“Who is going to do it, it is capital intensive, how long will it take to come to practice? So all these graduates will be waiting till such institutions are set so that they can get employed,” he said.
He pointed out that the proposed Technology Village which has not been developed should have been able to address such challenge.


“That is why the industries are crying out that graduates of Nigeria are of no value to them because when they employ them they have to retrain them at a very high cost.
He noted that the synergy between the producers of manpower and the end users is not there, saying, “even if they send them for that one year, who will make the input of the content of what these graduates will be doing in the institutions or whatever he calls it, and who is going to pay for the services there, is it the employer?”
According to him, over 50 per cent of the graduates are employed by the public sector, adding that it.


“It should be the smallest sector, ie the private sector is the largest employer but in Nigeria the private sector is narrowing by the day because the ease of doing business in Nigeria is very difficult.”
He however said the immediate solution is partnership with the industries which is the end user.
He called for review of curriculum of universities because knowledge is dynamic and changing by seconds.


A professor of communication at Bayero University Kano, (BUK) Prof Umaru Pate said it might be difficult but that, it is ideal but the implementation is going to be problematic.
Prof Pate said the industries to absolve the graduate when they come may not be readily available and that could mean that the candidates would have to line up for them to be absolved.


He said: “The availability of the supervisors to be taken to the industries is yet another issue and who will pay for their participation in the system because right now some SIWES that some of the departments participate in are experiencing some challenges or do you expect the students to also raise the money or the government to start another NYSC, so the issue of finance is a problem."


On the solution , he said one probable way of doing it is to encourage the various departments especially those professionally inclined to strengthen their industrial attachment and that could mean separating the attachment maybe from 100 level to say 300 level to spend three months in the industry and the rest of the period in the school.
The Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof Nasiru Idris said the proposal is not something new.


“You may wish to know that, already Environmental courses, engineering courses, medical courses are all running five year programmes and also, all courses in the Universities of Technology in Nigeria are 5 years programmes and the reason for this is to compliment theories with practice,” he said.
“In developed countries, degree programs are 3 years and they produce the best with no even the so called industrial attachment. Furthermore, government should declare state of emergency in the education sector.” he added.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/amplite/minister-wants-one-year-reschooling-for-graduates.html

Una Father. Idiot

I don't even have the patience to read this message at all. It's like thunder want to fire some people... Schools that are making life meaningless and very had to live is considering adding more miserable years to it nonsense. to kill more dreams and aspirations abi? Madness!!!

I know most people who read this are shocked. At a level of a Prof., imagine what little dream can come out of nija System. Shame!!

God please forgive Nigerians and stop punishing us with occultists as leaders. Amen.

HigherEd:
Now I'm thoroughly convinced that Nigeria is governed by incredibly stupid people.

If this is what so called professors can come up with then I'm truly concerned for Nigeria.

COLLECT FAVOUR.

The truth is that our Nigeria Professors are VEGETABLE ones that just got there through politics hence they have nothing to offer and fade away like the vegetables.

Especially Agricultural students

it's like tetanus is eating this one's brain

HigherEd:
Now I'm thoroughly convinced that Nigeria is governed by incredibly stupid people.

If this is what so called professors can come up with then I'm truly concerned for Nigeria. Everyone with half a brain ought to know that the problem of higher education in Nigeria is the issue of non functional universities as a result of poor funding and retrogressive lecturers. Instead of talking about equipping laboratories, creating tech clusters, university research park, improving knowledge transfer and pedagogy, reducing class sizes these mumu people are trying to add another useless year to an already useless four of five years.

For a university to produce industry - relevant graduates, the university itself has to be industry relevant. And that relevance can only come as a by product of heavy investment in research. You can add 20 years to the current setting and would still achieve nothing.

The irony is that these wehreys have their children in foreign countries where they complete academic curriculums in 3 years for BSc and 1 year for MSc yet more industry relevant than the ones in Nigeria spending close to 8 years achieving a BSC and MSC...

what do you expect from armchair professors who don't make research nor write useful books save articles in journals and play university politics.

Very few professors in Nigeria go to the field to conduct studies and gather relevant up-to-date data that is why they always come up with useless ideas that are not in tune with current realities.

As if NYSC is not enough, they are simply shying away from the BIG UNEMPLOYMENT problem staring them in the face so they want to elongate the training period to discourage young people from university education or delay them from graduating.......so that they will have a perfect excuse why u are unemployable

Adding extra year when university in advance countries are reducing theirs,
Get admitted to school in Nigeria, you will be made to study several courses, which at some point you ask yourself how relevant are these course to your course of study.
After 4/5 years of study, the industries will be looking for under 25 years graduate with 5-6 years of experience in relevant,

what happen to the Nysc year

einsteine:
May a healthy dose of lightning strike the people who thought of and communicated such a stupid suggestion.

Ameen

geoinvestor:
Our so-called leaders are not innovative at all.

My patriotic sentiment for this country is dying!... Useless leaders.

Don't worry, you'll soon for with your patriotic sentiment. fool

Information reaching me says this development iwas instigated by governors so as to boost their internally generated revenue and keep the bulk of the masses in school since there is no work for them yet.
I don't want to believe this sha

HigherEd:
My own university, Covenant uni protested to NUC as regards NUCs mathematics curriculum(2007) being severely outdated and then decided to go with the 'new' 2014 curriculum created by NUC. Only to be told by NUC that the 2014 curriculum was just a recommendation and that CU must revert to 2007 just as every other Nigerian uni, which is outdated. Even the so called 2014 is outdated not to talk of 2007, yet govt wants industry relevant graduates.

Many private universities have queried a situation where a Computer Science student is compelled to take Physical Chemistry in 100 level while counterparts in the UK go straight to the point... I think its high time govt allows academic freedom and let each university determine its own path and stop this nonsense of creating a central curriculum.

Not allowed because some section of the country will not be able to meet up so it is better instead of allowing the best to succeed everyone should come out half bajed

Tackle the Lecturers who would come to class just once in a semester and that once is for him/her to inform you to get the textbook cos you ain't seeing him again for a long time. Why would most lecturers behave that way? And you expect those students to be employable. If people want schools without lecturer they would have gone for DLI instead. Face the issues with the lecturers 1st,they are killers of many dreams in Universities today.

Prof Nasiru in the last paragraph said it all. I wonder why a so called prof be clamouring for additional yr when degree prog outside naija is 3yrs with better result.
I weep for my country.

HigherEd:
Now I'm thoroughly convinced that Nigeria is governed by incredibly stupid people.

If this is what so called professors can come up with then I'm truly concerned for Nigeria. Everyone with half a brain ought to know that the problem of higher education in Nigeria is the issue of non functional universities as a result of poor funding and retrogressive lecturers. Instead of talking about equipping laboratories, creating tech clusters, university research park, improving knowledge transfer and pedagogy, reducing class sizes these mumu people are trying to add another useless year to an already useless four of five years.

For a university to produce industry - relevant graduates, the university itself has to be industry relevant. And that relevance can only come as a by product of heavy investment in research. You can add 20 years to the current setting and would still achieve nothing.

The irony is that these wehreys have their children in foreign countries where they complete academic curriculums in 3 years for BSc and 1 year for MSc yet more industry relevant than the ones in Nigeria spending close to 8 years achieving a BSC and MSC...

You kill it.

Jochabed:
You must be kidding. When others are reducing the years,you are thinking of adding it.

lol.

They should focus more on vocational education.

SachaBastien:
"Professor" Anwukah,I need to know those who made you a Professor because you do not deserve to hold a B.Sc. So five years at university is not enough to make one employable. You want to add another year instead of your government adding jobs? You must be insane!

I concur

Kimsunh:
I concur

Thank you very much for concurring.

Their aim is to generate more money and increase the duration of students enslavement.