₦airaland Forum

benzion72:
Call it any name you hardly meet first class entrepreneur and business owner, they are not cut out for that. They are genius who can reproduce what their teacher gave them word for word. Even when they are not teaching they and get employed in multinational they are still on salary and your employer can't make you rich not even this era of casualixation, rightsizing, downsizing. An era where robot perform almost all the job. Have you not see jobless first class graduates.

What are ATM are they not robot that has taken Nigerians jobs. My brother all classes of degree are just paper it is what you can do that the market need that distinguished you in real life. Not one useless paper they gave you after 4 or 5 years. You are not talking to a novice I have more than 18 years work experience I have work in corporate organization with first class, ACCA, name it

isyourboy:
You're very right bro. There are people who condemn something just because they couldn't get it. They always find a way of ridiculing the first class graduates by telling this kind of rubbish

dopedan:
I'll advice you to follow your dreams. There are so many routes to success son what works for peter may never work for paul. Peace

Acepen:
Cc Laudate Thanks For The Enlightenment, Am Still In Skul, So What Would U Advice?Should I Still Struggle For 1st Class Or Give Up, Since It Doenst Matter What I Graduate With,or Does It?

laudate:
Guy, struggle for a 1st class if you want, but don't kill yourself, if it doesn't happen at the end of the day. Review your skills and talents. Look at other routes and options that are available to people in your field, and see how you can obtain additional skills, knowledge & qualifications to get ahead.

Acepen:
if I Was Ur Son What Would U Advice Me To Do?To Drop Out Of Skul?To Get A 3rd Class Instead Of 1st Class

benzion72:
With your CGPA of 4.99 in your study, you must add other practical applicable skill to your study, If you are in Electrical and Electronic Engineering student be ready to add Account professional qualification like ACCA and you must also get certification in current programming language like C++. Python also you must be able to harness solar energy for electricity, CCTV installation, Set up of dish etc etc. If you are a first class material in Agriculture be ready to have practical skill in Macro propagation, Micro propagation, Biotechnology eg Production of methane gas, Mushroom production through aseptic process. Dont just go and memorize dead men theory and parading paper as your qualification

Acepen:
thanx But U Should Have Said This Earliar

Gerrard59:
All the arguments back and forth just to vilify first class graduates and make third class look like the next big thing.

If only there was a study about the post-tertiary trajectory of first and third class grads, I believe these back and forth arguments would not happen.

All the arguments back and forth just to vilify first class graduates and make third class look like the next big thing. If only there was a study about the post-tertiary trajectory of first and third class grads, I believe these back and forth arguments would not be in place.

Talking about money and posh things. It's pertinent to note that not all first class graduates aspire to be entrepreneurs or billionaires - we're not Zimbabweans. Some people just want a comfortable life with a stable income thereby providing for their families, sending their kids to good schools, go on vacation and have a good retirement plan in place. Others prefer the entrepreneurial route, yet again, some prefer working in the lab discovering/inventing new technologies to aid mankind abi humankind (according to Justin Trudeau). However, I believe we should encourage current students to perform well academically as this will present them to a window of opportunities. In anything we find doing, we should do it well.

Anyway, na Nigeria we dey. All the top CEOs and members board of directors I read and watch globally, finished top of their class. Even politicians sef in developed countries. Yet another reason, I advise folks who finished with a first or near first to relocate. I doubt Nigeria deserves such individuals.

Cc: Acepen, Benzoin72 & Laudate

Acepen:
Gbam, U Have Said It All, It Is Still Mind Boggling How Someone Would Say 3rd Is Better Than 1st, I Blame The Nepotism And Bigotry In Nigeria Placing Incompetent Fools On Top Ruining The System

laudate:
And who are all your top CEOs and members board of directors you read and watch globally that finished top of their class? Oga, there are also several top CEOs and board members globally, who did not finish top of their class, and ended up with a 2:2 grade or even a 3rd, especially in this country.

Free your mind, please. If you finished with a 1st class, good luck to you. All that most people are saying, is that finishing with a 3rd class, is not the end of the world. You can still become successful in any field you desire, once you are willing to put in hardwork, upgrade yourself by thinking outside the box, acquiring additional skills and adapting to any legit situation you find yourself in. Why do people find this so difficult to comprehend? And how does this translate to vilifying 1st class graduates?

Acepen:
Cc Gerrard59
The Sad Reality In Nigeria And Most Part Of Africa Is That The System Does Not Work Base On Merit,intelligent And Hardworking People Are Not Recognised,we Tend To Do Things Base On Bigotry And Nepotism That Is Why We Have Incompetent Pple In High Places Ruining The System. Unlike Our Developed Counterparts Were U See Executives Politicians Scientist Etc Who Are Top Of Their Game.
It Is Better To Be On Top In What Ever U Do.

Gerrard59:
I meant globally not Nigeria. Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Nomura, BP, Toyo, PwC, Credit Sussie, McKinsey & Co, Hitachi, EY etc There are numerous.

Yes, I agree with you that graduating with a third is not the end of the world. However, I will not encourage any student in the system to finish with a third.

You dey mind them? Tomorrow, they will expect the country to be properly run. Singapore who got her independence 5 years after us is one of well-run places globally. The PM finished with a first in Mathematics from Cambridge University. Another is Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Turnbull of Australia is a Rhodes' Scholar. What do we have? A cattle herder ahead of a professor and the majority are OK with it.

Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada (from 1984 - 1993) did not leave university with a 1st class and later failed his bar exams twice, yet his tenure was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, that improved the fortunes of his country.

Tony Blair and John Major who served as former Prime Ministers of United Kingdom did not graduate with a 1st class, yet they performed well in their roles. Blair served for 10 years (1997-2007) while Major was PM from 1990 - 1997. Even Margaret Thatcher the first female who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, did not leave Oxford with a 1st class, but a 2nd class.

For Angela Merkel the Chancellor of Germany, there is no record that she graduated with a 1st class. Her biography only states that she has a Ph.D in Chemistry.

Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway, who is popularly called the oracle of Obama, is a wealthy billionaire. Does he have a 1st class degree? Not to my knowledge. Yet his firm, is the 3rd most profitable company in the USA, among the Fortune 500 companies.