…Says graduates should be employers of labour
By Kola Alhassan
Chairman Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos branch, Dr Dele Ashiru has corrected the notion that the aim of university education is basically to gain employment.
He noted that graduates were supposed to be employers of labour.
Ashiru spoke in an interview monitored on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
“There is a fundamental assumption that is wrong: university education is not for employability. That one is basic, if you have a good university education; you should be an employer of labour.
The ASUU Chairman said university education was not for everybody. He noted that in developed countries, only few people get university education.
“If you look at systems all over the world, only a certain percentage of citizens in the country should be able to go to a university. The rest should go to what they call a polytechnic, a monotechnic, a technical college etc. such that by the time they finish from those institutions of learning, as it was in Nigeria in the past, they can move into the industry as artisans and all that,” he said.
