OVEERPOPULATION IN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS: THE BREEDING OF HALF BAKED GRADUATES, A SANDY FOUNDATION FOR NIGERIA FUTURE.
The establishment of Yaba technical institute back then was to ensure the production of young Nigerians who can take up middle level man power job from the whites whose dominant is obviously dangerous for our call for independence. Brilliant performance from dedicated teachings and monitored investment in the institute result the creation of a premier university in Ibadan, our today's pride as virtually all sectors in the country are being managed by our own flesh mostly scholars from our institution and very few who travelled abroad for brushing up.
Negating the essence of education and misunderstanding the needs of education, mitigating it only to be a prequsite of whealth. Nigerians now patronize educational schools with the dream of graduating to make a living from the labour market with little or no recourse to the relative benifits of such knowledge to the nations growth. Pathetically degrees are mare qualifications into job entry as relevant skills trainings follows to make such personalities functional.
The enthusiasm of getting educated at all cost, to surpass humiliation and oppression as make believe in Nigeria of today, that without a minimum of degree or it equivalent life is miserable, the cajole into exploitation and extotation of educational managers increases day in day out. Sympathetically one out of every hundred gets value for their money as institutions are crowded with overload, capital abuse of carrying capacity therefore resulting to the flush out of heated or half baked graduate into the society yearly.
School now turns profit making ventures negating the aim and mission establishing same during the days of our colonial masters, so many private elementary schools to complement our public ones yet mass failure rocks WAEC and NECO yearly. Proceed to study any course that present itself in the higher instution just to posses the certificate and the will to admit many as possible for profit as successfully given us a crowded business enterprise as polytechnics and universities.
Higher institutions admits thousands of students for a course with a capacity less than two hundred, purchase of public address system is adopted to give fair treatment, while students wake up early and even sleeps in class to secure seats for lecture, the fear of suffocation bring lecturers late to class and ejects early enough out of the cell named classroom. Practical classes are boycotted or to be taking in ratio twenty to one machine minimally. We now have computer science graduates who finds it difficult to operate a system yets graduated with first class from the respected institutions of ours.
The present of Nigeria is bleak, what do the future holds? When what we produces are job seekers and and not entrepreneurs, we roll out engineers yearly and still battles with the production of pencils, countless scientists goes in to the labour market yearly yet Nigerians aren't technology providers. The fear of the future, the fear of the unborn strikes my heart as there exist no linkage between our schools and industries.
Standard departs our education sector on speed, holistic overhauling is required to restructure the nooks and crannies of the system, Nigeria education begs proper and adequates attention, bridging the gap between the industries and the institutions is essential and most importantly sanctions be introduced to over crowding of our institutions. Nigeria education shall be greate again.
Comr Olugbode DAMOLA H
ALUTA D-MODE
NAPS National PRO