Blame poor varsity graduates on secondary education – Okebukola

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of Crawford University, Prof. Peter Okebukola, has blamed the poor quality of graduates produced by universities on secondary school education.
 He said this on Wednesday at the eighth convocation ceremony of the university in Igbesa, Ogun State.
 He said that the strategies used to run Nigeria’s education system needed to be changed.
He said, “2017 will be here in about two weeks and we are still burdened with overall poor quality of graduates from the Nigerian university system. There is the need to undertake a massive overhaul of the basic and senior secondary system to improve the feedback into our universities.
“Why blame the universities for poor-quality graduates if all you are feeding them with are mediocre, very poor-quality school leavers? We cannot throw garbage into our universities and expect to reap gold? We need to improve basic and senior secondary education.”
 In his address, the Chancellor of the university, Dr. Adebayo Adeniran, suggested that Nigerian universities should strive to produce service-driven graduates.
He said, “A major impediment to sustainable socio-economic growth in Nigeria is the acute shortage of service-driven graduates from our universities. We need graduates that are motivated to offer service or accomplish goals without caring for external rewards.”
 During the ceremony, 231 students bagged first degrees while 37 graduates were awarded postgraduate diplomas and master’s degrees.
The analysis of results of the graduands, presented by the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Isaac Ajayi, showed that 21 students bagged first class; 86 made second class upper; and 76 got second class lower.
 Ajayi urged the graduates to prepare for challenges, including harsh economic realities.
The Chairman, Board of Trustees, Dr. Gabriel Ajayi, urged the new graduates to make a change with their degrees.
“Our country already has a glut of wreckers in privileged positions and a chronic shortage of patriots. What we really need now are patriots in good positions who will join the nation’s small and endangered construction crew rather than the oversized wrecking gang,” he added.

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