KWASU VC slams 1st class degrees with no job skills
Newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Prof. Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi has questioned the merit of issuing first-class degrees to graduates who have no additional job-enabling skills.
Prof. Akanbi said this in view of the latest report that 21.7 million Nigerians are unemployed according to a release by the National Bureau of Statistics.
“Already, we encourage our students to engage in different entrepreneurship skills, acquire, hold and consider all certificates important. It does not make any sense if you are a first-class student and you are looking for a job. And I mean first class in any programme,” he further said.
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The newly appointed VC was speaking when he led the management staff of the institution on a visit to some government agencies in Abuja, in a bid to garner support for the school.
He said Kwara State University was determined to graduate students with life skills to be self-sustaining after University education.
“Our university is a university of community development and entrepreneurship. We have a centre which is being rejigged and rejuvenated. It is now called the Centre for Vocational, Technical and Entrepreneurship because we don’t want to teach entrepreneurship just in theory.
“We get our students involved in vocational things and the technical aspects. You will see students engage in things like making face masks, face shields, hand sanitizers; some are into tailoring, some are into carpentry, some are into what I call mechanical automobile repair and things like that,” he said.
