Well, I strongly believe that one of the greatest challenge
in Nigeria System of education,especially in the Technology world is lack of
conducive environment. I always make an advocacy that, IT innovation parks
should be sighted at least in each geopolitical zone. It’s well known that if
you train accounting students, you build financial institutions, if you train
medical personnel’s you build medical facilities and training centres , then if
we see the importance of IT in Nigeria there should be need for Innovation
Centres, China of today started from somewhere and Nigeria Can start from
somewhere. Let there be an innovation Centre, some technologies that is new to
us today are already outdated in some countries, because there’s is no
supportive research centres.
The curriculum need serious attention, majority of the higher institutions are still offering some “outdated” courses and they have refused to upgrade. It’s hard for you to see a computer science graduate from especially public institution with a specialization, either in Digital Marketing, Networks, Hardware, Graphics, software engineering, etc. and every academic session over 10,000 (Ten thousand) Computer Science Students graduates from one higher institution or the other, the big question remains. Which company/firms are ready to absorb these graduates?, which innovation center in Nigeria can breed this fresh graduates?. Imagine what this country would turn to be if only 1/10 of these fresh graduates are actually useful to the IT industry. This country will build a silicon valley soon.
The curriculum need serious attention, majority of the higher institutions are still offering some “outdated” courses and they have refused to upgrade. It’s hard for you to see a computer science graduate from especially public institution with a specialization, either in Digital Marketing, Networks, Hardware, Graphics, software engineering, etc. and every academic session over 10,000 (Ten thousand) Computer Science Students graduates from one higher institution or the other, the big question remains. Which company/firms are ready to absorb these graduates?, which innovation center in Nigeria can breed this fresh graduates?. Imagine what this country would turn to be if only 1/10 of these fresh graduates are actually useful to the IT industry. This country will build a silicon valley soon.
Well, it’s a big mystery, but the truth has to be said,
there is nothing like a computer lab or research lab, talk more facilities of
lab with internet connection for research work. I could remember the first time
I entered a room that has a few dilapidated system was in my second year when
we went for CSC 201 lecture and after that day there was nothing like a
practical class again. It’s really embarrassing and I strongly believe this is
also applicable to higher institutions in Nigeria. With my Position as the
National President I have received lots of complaints about IT students
complaining of issues of poor computer laboratories and practical courses,
although we have limited intervention to this issues, but we as a body have
tried to collaborate with many ICT training centres to organize very subsidised
fees to up to 70% discount just to make sure that our members don’t come out of
the higher institution half baked.
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