The Deputy Vice chancellor, Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State,
Professor Patrick Yalokwu, has said that Nigeria’s education curriculum are outdated, having been developed more than 20 years ago.
Prof Yalokwu made the remark while delivering Crawford University’s third
inaugural lecture entitled ‘Spiritually-Minded Authentic Leadership:
Catalyst for Sustainable Development’.
“Many of the curricula were developed over 20 years ago and they are
kind of subject-oriented curricula. The kind of curriculum we need is
more of functional one which talks about entrepreneurship rather than
white-collar job,” he said,
“We need a curriculum that would produce job creators and not seekers. I
want to believe that there is need to be employed by right
organisations, but we still need graduates who would come out and become
employers of labour. Our curriculum should be more practical than
theory,” he stated.
The Professor of Business and Administration lamented that in the past,
polytechnics were more practical than the universities, but today they
are more like the same and the government on the other hand is not
funding education.
He said the way forward in the sector was for the various curricula to
be restructured, away from theory to the stage that students would be
tutored more on practical.
Professor Yalokwu also decried the increasing population, which has compounded admission procedures for tertiary institutions.
