Education quality, threat to development – Fashola
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said the poor content quality of the nations' education system was a threat to the countrys' aspirations for development.
The Governor, at the 2012 Lagos State Ministry of Education Corporate Social Responsibility Awards in Ikeja, explained that the current educational system lacked the ingredients to power Nigeria's development.
He said obsolete curricula, poor infrastructure and teachers' training were some of the challenges that made the system produced so many people with little knowledge.
The governor pointed out that the challenges had also led to the high rate of unemployment because most graduates from tertiary institutions in the country were unemployable.
Fashola urged stakeholders to get involved in the development of public education and find a lasting solution to the problem.
He said, "Nigeria has an average literacy level of about 55 per cent. Now that many Nigerians can read and write, what is the content of their knowledge? Are the employers finding those educated products employable?
"We are dealing with a new problem now. Many literate people have insufficient quality in the knowledge they have acquired. We must find a new answer to the problem."
The governor said intervention of the private sector in public education would solve the problem of standards as the government alone could not fund education.
He said the state had recorded tremendous success in its Support-Our Schools initiative, adding that it had provided a platform for private sector interventions in the state's public education system.
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