‘Technical education solution to unemployment crisis.
TheChairman Bestgift Group of Schools Ijegun, Alimosho,Lagos State, Engr. B.C Madubueze has urged parents to lay a solid foundation for their children by exposing them to technical education.
He said that the realities of the present day has shown that the only way out of the unemployment quagmire world wide lies in equipping our children with essential skills that can help them become employers of labour rather than seekers of white collar jobs that have almost become extinct.
In a media chat with journalists whom he also took round the school premises to show the hostel structures and instructional materials for the technical college section of the school, said with the present day situation there are no white collar jobs anywhere. He said this is due to lack of planning and gross mismanagement of available resources by our authorities. ”It has become imperative for our children to be equipped with the skills that can make them self reliant and employers of labor, ” he said.
He also pointed out that with courses like Electrical/ Electronics Engineering, Building Technology, Computer Engineering, Auto-mobile Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and etc, put in place, students are better positioned for future life challenges.
His words: ”Students that are exposed to wide knowledge of sciences are in a better position to pursue science courses like medicine, engineering and other related degree programs in the university having had a solid pre-degree foundation at the technical college.
”We are working with a science oriented curriculum, the type that will enable our products cope with the challenges of the future, bearing in mind that we are living in a fast changing world where survival has become a matter of what you can offer.
”Our platform also provides products of our technical college the options of enrolling for other national and international examinations, the normal examinations like the, WAEC/SSCE, NECO, NABTEB, and the City and Guilds of London Institute based on choice” Madubueze stated further.
In a media chat with journalists whom he also took round the school premises to show the hostel structures and instructional materials for the technical college section of the school, said with the present day situation there are no white collar jobs anywhere. He said this is due to lack of planning and gross mismanagement of available resources by our authorities. ”It has become imperative for our children to be equipped with the skills that can make them self reliant and employers of labor, ” he said.
He also pointed out that with courses like Electrical/ Electronics Engineering, Building Technology, Computer Engineering, Auto-mobile Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and etc, put in place, students are better positioned for future life challenges.
His words: ”Students that are exposed to wide knowledge of sciences are in a better position to pursue science courses like medicine, engineering and other related degree programs in the university having had a solid pre-degree foundation at the technical college.
”We are working with a science oriented curriculum, the type that will enable our products cope with the challenges of the future, bearing in mind that we are living in a fast changing world where survival has become a matter of what you can offer.
”Our platform also provides products of our technical college the options of enrolling for other national and international examinations, the normal examinations like the, WAEC/SSCE, NECO, NABTEB, and the City and Guilds of London Institute based on choice” Madubueze stated further.
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