The Vice Chancellor, Federal University
of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Professor Cyril Chigozie Asiabaka, has declared
that Nigeria's education quality has remain intact and there is no difference between the quality of education obtained in the
country now and 54 years ago, reports ITRealms.
Responding to questions from newsmen
in Owerri recently to mark the 54th independent anniversary
celebration, Prof. Asiabaka insisted that education in Nigeria’s education
quality is still intact.
“It is still the same with the early
ages of the 1960s. The issue you have at stake is that people are comparing
apples with oranges. In those days, many people were 25 years when they were in
primary schools. May be they were behaving like adults. But the world is a
global village now. People are knowing more things,” he declared.
Prof. Asiabaka also stressed that the
important thing now is for Nigeria as a nation to see this difference,
wondering who some Nigerians are comparing the alleged falling standard of
education with?
“Every country must have a path to
its own development. As we are now, you can’t say the quality of education is
going down. The challenges facing us today are not the same challenges that
faced us 20 years ago. Nigeria is moving. Education standard is moving in the
direction of the world as the world moves. So, we can’t compare what happened
in 1960s with what is happening today in Nigeria. So, in my own thinking, what
people are thinking is nostalgia—in those days, when we were there, I used to
be,” he told newsmen.
Prof. Asiabaka equally noted that
the country had not reached where it supposed to be in the area of education,
saying this was the reason the nation’s government was investing hugely in the
education sector.
“There is always room for improvement.
Educationists in Nigeria and the universities are doing their best to improve
the quality of education in the country; because Nigeria has the potential to
be a great country, that’s why the founding fathers founded universities like
FUTO where they want us to help them in technological advancement that will
improve economic development of the country.
“In that direction, FUTO is taking
the lead as the Premier University of Technology in the country, turning out
graduates that had impacted positively in the technological and economical
development of the country”.
Asiabaka emphasized that the federal
government should challenge the university and educational institutions to
perform their duties.
“What we are challenging government
is to start what other governments do—challenge the university. A technological
university is there to solve technological problems of the country. It needs
funding. So what the government should do is to challenge us for us to do our duty.
That’s why we do research. So, FUTO is there as part of the transformation
agenda of the country. That is hope for this country to move to become a
developed country among the comity of nations” he said.
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