Don calls for review of educational curriculum to accommodate Edu-tech
Federal and state governments have been asked to review the educational curriculum from basic to tertiary level to make technical education compulsory.
The Director, Directorate of Academic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Quality Assurance, Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies, Ilorin, Ustaz Kamaldeen Sofiyullahi Kamaldeen, said this on Wednesday while featuring on a News and Current Affairs programme “Matters Arising”.
Ustaz Sofiyullahi Kamaldeen emphasised the need for government to refocus attention on education by ensuring that students are exposed to technical skills from basic level.
He maintained that by exposing students to entrepreneurship and technical skills, it would make them to be self reliant and enable a significant reduction in the unemployment rate.
Ustaz Sofiyullahi Kamaldeen added that it would also ensure a high gross domestic product growth and encourage light industry which, in turn, create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths.
While explaining that the Kwara state College of Arabic and Legal Studies is determined to expose students to entrepreneurship skills by ensuring that they learn different skills especially in soap making, Solar energy, paint production and application, interior decoration and catering, the guest said the institution would work to secure CAC approval for the students .
Ustaz Sofiyullahi Kamaldeen however sought the collaboration of relevant agencies, especially the state government and industries in the state to assist the institution through their Corporate Social Responsibility to turn some of the work of the students to industrial use.
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