Educational Issues
Nigeria’s Educational Sector In The 21st Century -By Usama Abdullahi
I know how parents feel when they see their children whom they spent their savings on, graduate without being employed. But it could be more pleasant for the parents, the students, and the world at large, to question the motive behind their unemployment. Is it unfair or the right decision? These are needful.
Our educational sector is at the peak of crumbling. It worries me whenever I take an intense look at our today’s educational sector. Before, Nigeria was blessed with great personalities. Nigeria was, then, indeed hailed for her excellent educational standard. But unlike today. Presently, we can’t stand before the world and pride ourselves in the educational sector. It would never be practicable. You wouldn’t imagine how languid the system is until you begin to converse with or interrogate the students.
Some hardly explain themselves. They find it hard to write a short paragraph or construct a sentence. To write witty notes about themselves is another Himalayan task for them. What pushed me to write these; was the way I caught myself in. Actually, I was shamefaced when I saw a post made by some of the graduating-students of this year. This kept me terrified. It made me think about the forthcoming students tomorrow. This is a painful punch to us, the Nigerians. However, these do not occur among the senior secondary school students alone, but rather mid the graduates.
Our graduates keep complaining of not being employed after going through glutinous tasks while in schools. They yammer, yammer, and their parents yammer, too. The parents, unknowingly, think that their children were just incoherently rejected in the process of employment. This is far away from the facts. I know it hurts to undergo such toilsome assignments in school, and later end up being unemployed.
I know how parents feel when they see their children whom they spent their savings on, graduate without being employed. But it could be more pleasant for the parents, the students, and the world at large, to question the motive behind their unemployment. Is it unfair or the right decision? These are needful. For, evidently, there are many graduates that are just bearing the so-called names. To be honest, we know them, similarly, they know themselves. In a situation like this, what to consider is the credentials of the students. That is their academic performances, and not their very look or names. It is time we tell ourselves the reality. Not everything worths complaint. Let’s investigate ourselves. Because the failure might be from us.
The truth is that; we seldom give time for our books, attend lectures lately, or don’t at all. In our community, outside school, we are well known or regarded as “cinemagoers”. We devote most of our time watching football shows more than meaningful and educational movies. When we return from schools, we throw our bags in some corners of our rooms. We will not read until the commencement of Tests and Examinations. When we chat with our friends online, we abbreviate most of the letters, with the thoughts of being sagacious. Not knowing that it’s slowly demeaning our patois or ability to learn.
We hiss, ignore, and make abusive words whenever we come in contact with lengthy write-ups – thinking that it is a time waste reading such. Apparently, we could see how some students snap and post their pictures in school uniforms while in the classrooms. You can’t believe if I tell you that the students that protested for the reopening of schools did that to cause trouble, and not for the benefit of themselves or others. How do you think of attaining success while you are stuck in these ill-bred?
Usama Abdullahi
