The Acting Director-General of Centre for Management Development (CMD), Mrs Modinat Olusoji, has advised universities in the country to make skills acquisition Programme part of their curriculum.
She made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja
“ In addressing unskillful graduates in nigeria institutions we should make sure that we don’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
“There are changes in the society, things are done differently so the curriculum we were using five or 10 years ago will not be the same thing we are using now.
“What the people are learning in the university must be related to what they are coming out to do when they graduate.
“If there is no relationship you will just discover that you just have a bundle of people with a lot of theories which they cannot put into practice.
“ So, the theories and the practice must be put together and that is how we can solve the problem of unskillful graduates.
“I think this are the things government and some institutions are now putting in place, entrepreneurial, skills development into their curriculum, but we need to intensify that to make sure that even while the undergraduates are in the university their skills can also develop practically,” Olusoji said.
“When students are trained in skills acquisition programme, when they graduate from the university,t while looking for a white collar job they have something to lay their hands upon.
” They are able to develop their skills and make use of that skill to benefit the country.
“So, those are the things we need to be doing to make sure that while we are teaching them those things that have to do with theory the practical must be going on side by side with it so that their skill can be made use of when they come out of the university.” (NAN
