Education
THE Centre for Management Development (CMD) has advocated a review in the curriculum of Nigerian Universities to include skills acquisition in their programmes.
Mrs Modinat Olusoji, the Acting Director-General (DG) of the centre made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.
NAN reports that CMD and the Nigerian Council for Management Development (NCMD) were established in1973 to regulate management consultancy training through the accreditation and registration of management trainers, training firms and institutions.
The centre also stimulates, promotes and coordinates management development for the achievement of management excellence in Nigeria and beyond.
The DG said: “In addressing the challenge of unskillful and unemployable graduates from Nigeria institutions, there must be concerted efforts to review the programmes and curriculum of our highest institution, particularly our universities.
“In this era of skill based knowledge, we cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
“There are changes in the society, things are being done differently, so the curriculum we were using five to 10 years ago will not be the same thing we should be using now.
“What the people are learning in the universities must be related to what they are coming out to do when they graduated.
“If there is no correlation you will discover that you just have a bunch of people with a lot of theories which they cannot put into practice”.
Olusoji said theory and practice must be taught in schools to train a wholly graduate and solve the problem of unskillful and unemployable graduates.
She said entrepreneurial skills development must be priotise in the curriculum to make graduates self reliant after graduation.
Olusoji decried the development where university graduates are waiting for white collar jobs many years after leaving schools.
According to her, a graduate should be able to deploy acquired skills after leaving schools and even become an employer of labour (NAN)
A.I
Aug. 25, 2024
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