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The Academic Staff Union of Universities mentioned the craze for the acquisition of upper levels within the nation had not impacted sufficient on nationwide progress and transformation.
The chairman of the University of Lagos chapter of the union, Dr Dele Ashiru, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos.
As acknowledged by him, the craze for larger levels equivalent to Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and others has not had any important impression on the wants of the society.
He mentioned fairly than go after larger levels; Nigerians ought to enterprise into technical and vocational research for expertise acquisition that will immediately impression lives.
“Yes, it's fascinating for the system to provide holders of upper levels, particularly PhDs, however PhDs for what?
“I believe we must always refocus and restructure our training system in order that will probably be extra related to our society fairly than award larger levels.
“Come to think about it, all of the folks that have acquired PhDs in Nigeria, allow us to perform a forensic audit of what they're giving again to the society.
“Most people are running after the acquisition of these degrees for selfish motives. They feel for instance, that it is a requisite for their progression in life or a ticket for fulfilled life,” he mentioned.
He also stated that, regrettably, such improvement was solely peculiar to a nation like Nigeria.
Ashiru famous that the way in which out was to pump sufficient funds into the vocational and technical training in addition to significant analysis for socio-economic and political improvement.
He mentioned profitable Nigerians who had acquired wealth legitimately or in any other case ought to pump a part of such cash into the training system.