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Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, on Tuesday called for a paradigm shift in the nation’s education model, saying it cannot deliver the much-needed speedy development and economic transformation.
The governor who delivered a lecture at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), advocated for a shift from rote or memorization to experiential learning, which he described as the missing link between education, industrialization, and GDP growth.
Titled “Experiential Learning: Building the Wealth of the Nation,” Mbah said Nigeria is underdeveloped because youths are not taught productive skills in school.
“Why do Nigerian universities seldom feature on the global ranking list of the world’s best universities? Why have they seemed perennially unable to become the ideas factory which universities ought to be? Why are our universities not producing inventive graduates?
“The answers to these questions lie in many inconvenient truths, amongst which is the fact that the learning in our schools, from basic to tertiary, has for years did not imbue our young people with productive skills and competencies. This is the root cause of our underdevelopment,” he said.
He stressed that knowledge has always been the prime lever for progress throughout human history, the reason he said nations like the US, China, Germany, and the Netherlands, which invest the most in building a qualitative and experiential education ecosystem are the world’s leading economies – United States of America.
The governor also directed all state-owned tertiary institutions to “deliver experiential learning henceforth”.
“So, we hereby announce as a policy that all state-owned tertiary institutions in Enugu state must henceforth deliver experiential learning to our children.
“We want to see this change reflected in planning, budget, curriculum reform, assessment, and promotions, as well as research,” he added.
