The Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin (Unilorin), Prof. Abdul Ambali, has said that Nigerian graduates are competing favourably with their peers from across the world.
Ambali
said that Nigerian graduates were able to compete favourably because of
the acceptable standard of education in the country.
The vice-chancellor, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja, added that Nigerian graduates had always acquitted themselves creditably in the Diaspora.
"I
think the standard is acceptable because if you look at our graduates
anywhere you go around the world and you see them, they are working in
high places and they are proving themselves.
"So
if the standards were lower they would not be able to compete with
their peers where they are now. So, to me it is a relative term because
the standard in not falling to me.
"We
have a lot of room to improve; for example, we need to improve the
quality of our teachers especially at the primary and secondary school
levels.
"I have been saying this; it is
whatever we harvest at those levels especially the secondary school
level that comes to the university and in the university you can do
minimum modelling to shape them into what the country wants."
Ambali,
therefore, state governments to invest more on secondary education in
view of its position as the bridge between basic and tertiary education.
He said: "Students
should have better classrooms; they should have better teachers and
better learning environment because it is the products of these three
issues that make up a good candidate for the next level.
"For
example, if the classrooms are crowded; if there are no teaching
facilities in the classroom; no teaching aids in the classroom; no
enough materials to carry out the necessary practical, then the quality
of education will become questionable.
"If the teachers are not well paid; they are not well mobilised; they cannot concentrate on their primary assignments."
On
the issue of the cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities,
Ambali said 180 had been pegged as minimum score required of Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) candidates.
He
said though some universities were under pressure to offer admission to
candidates, each university could still fix a score in conformity with
its own standard to enable them to get the best applicants.
According
to him, JAMB’s minimum cut-off mark for Medicine is between 230 and
235, but individual universities are at liberty to conduct post-JAMB
screening to get the best of the candidates.
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