OSUN State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has said that Nigerian universities have lost touch with the needs of the society and only  issue bland certificates  to graduates who are barely literates.

Speaking at the second graduating ceremony of Osun State University, Mr Aregbesola explained that the inability of the universities to meet the challenges of the society was a persistent problem because the universities  are largely out of sync with the society and that the society was not ruled by ideas.

According him, “our universities continue to issue bland certificates to graduates who are barely literate, if we take literacy literally to be the ability to read and write (good prose). The education is bland and not tied to need of society. Education must be woven into life with a common thread running through life and society. This is how universities can be relevant,” he said

He explained that a university is supposed to be a centre of excellence that stands above society, passes judgement on it and ultimately imparts excellence into it.

He added that as a way of assisting  the university, “to address this issue of isolated, disconnected, pseudo-citadels of learning, our government is endowing this university with a professorial Chair in Building a Knowledge Based Society: Innovation, Infrastructure and Quality of Life (BKBS: IIQL). The philosophy behind this is the slogan of the Action Group in the 50s.”

 Speaking at the graduation , the outgoing Vice chancellor of the university, Professor Sola Akinrinade,  said the university was graduating 657 students from the institutions’ seven colleges and 19 of them made first class honours, 227 made second class upper, while 362 made second class lower and 49 made third class.

Comments (0)

Show/hide comments

Show/hide comment form

Name

Email

Website

Title

Comment

smaller | bigger

Subscribe via email (registered users only)

I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.

Add Comment