Skills create jobs – University Don condemns Nigeria’s focus on paper certificate

A Professor of Industrial and Technology Education astatine the Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna, Professor Emmanuel Raymond, has identified Technical and Vocational Education and Training, TVET, arsenic Nigeria’s astir potent instrumentality for tackling unemployment, reducing insecurity and driving sustainable economical growth.

Raymond stated this portion delivering the university’s 131st Lecture, titled “The Marriage Between TVET and Job Creation: Let No One Put Asunder,” astatine it’s Gidan-Kwano campus. 

He argued that Nigeria’s continued accent connected certificate acquisition alternatively than applicable skills has near millions of graduates unemployed and incapable to conscionable labour marketplace demands.

Prof Raymond lamented that the nation’s acquisition strategy has go overly theoretical, producing graduates who person world qualifications but deficiency the method and entrepreneurial competencies required by industries, businesses and the modern economy.

According to him, Nigerians person go fixated connected white-collar jobs portion neglecting blue-collar skilled occupations and different vocational careers susceptible of creating wealthiness and reducing dependence connected authorities employment.

“Today, Nigeria has implicit 10 cardinal unemployed youths, portion much than 700,000 assemblage graduates stay jobless. At the...