The Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdul Ambali, has said that he is satisfied with the level of Nigerian tertiary institution academic wise stating that Nigerian graduates work anywhere in the world. According to the VC the only thing left to be done in the country’s educational system, is for the primary and secondary institutions to improve. The Vice-Chancellor made this known in an interview in Abuja on Monday.
“I think the standard is acceptable because if you look at our graduates anywhere you go around the world and you see them, they are working in high places and they are proving themselves. So if the standards were lower they would not be able to compete with their peers where they are now. So, to me it is a relative term because the standard in not falling to me. Continue…
“We have a lot of room to improve; for example, we need to improve the quality of our teachers especially at the primary and secondary school levels.
“I have been saying this; it is whatever we harvest at those levels especially the secondary school level that comes to the university and in the university you can do minimum modelling to shape them into what the country wants.”
Ambali, therefore, state governments to invest more on secondary education in view of its position as the bridge between basic and tertiary education.
He also encouraged state governments to improve the education system;
“Students should have better classrooms; they should have better teachers and better learning environment because it is the products of these three issues that make up a good candidate for the next level.
“For example, if the classrooms are crowded; if there are no teaching facilities in the classroom; no teaching aids in the classroom; no enough materials to carry out the necessary practical, then the quality of education will become questionable.
“If the teachers are not well paid; they are not well mobilised; they cannot concentrate on their primary assignments,” he said.
