{"id":35100,"date":"2019-10-07T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35100"},"modified":"2019-10-07T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:06:48","slug":"ibukun-awosika-nigerian-graduates-getting-trained-in-what-they-dont-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/ibukun-awosika-nigerian-graduates-getting-trained-in-what-they-dont-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibukun Awosika: Nigerian Graduates Getting Trained In What They Don\u2019t Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ibukun Awosika, chairman of the First Bank, says young people in Nigeria are receiving education in the areas they do not need.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday at the 25th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Awosika said there is a need to declare a state of emergency in Nigeria\u2019s education sector.<\/p>\n<p>Awosika said she recently asked a room full of university students why they chose their course of study and the response she got was that they were studying the courses they were given.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need an emergency in the education sector. We can achieve what we want to when we identify where we want to go. We must redefine the education we are delivering to our children,\u201d she said.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe send children to school to study anything. They are not studying what they want. Nigerian graduates are wrongly trained in what they do not need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The First Bank chairman advised that there is a need to re-train graduates to channel human resources in the sectors that they are needed the most.<\/p>\n<p>According to Awosika, Nigeria needs to identify where it wants to be to compete with top economies across the world.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibukun Awosika, chairman of the First Bank, says young people in Nigeria are receiving education in the areas they do not need.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17],"tags":[6246],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","tag-ibukum-awosika"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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