LAGOS — Mr. Dele Ashiru, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos State (UNILAG) chapter, has stated that university education is not suited for employability.
Mr. Ashiru made the claim on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily and further maintained that graduates are supposed to be employers of labour.
“There is a fundamental assumption that is wrong: university education is not for employability. That one is basic,” he said during the show. “If you have a good university education, you should be an employer of labour.”
He also maintained that access to university education is not for everybody, adding that in developed nations; only a few people get to that level.
The lecturer said, “If you look at systems all over the world, only a certain percentage of citizens in the country should be able to go to a university. The rest should go to what they call a polytechnic, a monotechnic, a technical college, etc. such that by the time they finish from those institutions of learning, as it was in Nigeria in the past, they can move into the industry as artisans and all that.”
The ASUU UNILAG leader further opined that the love for university education in the country is unnecessary. According to him, the situation does not bode well for Nigeria.
“And that’s why the pressure is on university education. Check any developed country in the world, those who populate their universities are not from their citizens,” Mr. Ashiru explained.
Ezinwanne Onwuka, senior staff reporter and columnist with WAP is a Nigerian-based writer and content developer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her interests include reading, writing, researching and graphic designing.
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