Education Does Matter, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Education does matter! In part because the goal of pivoting our economy away from its dependence on oil exploration and exports won’t happen without a large body of educated Nigerians as both fulcrum and lever. One of the many failures of the oil and gas sector is the absence of strong linkages with the domestic economy. As an “exclave” of the economy, it employs some of the best, yes. But not in enough numbers to move any needle.

Unfortunately, even this transition of labour-intensive employment is currently threatened by innovations in technology. Both digitisation and artificial intelligence promise now to make it easy for machines to carry out repetitive work that previously also required a fine eye for detail — especially in the textile and garments sector.

In the light of these developments, if education matters, the question is “Which aspects of it?” First, infrastructure. As is, most of our schools, especially the public ones would fail, even, as pig styes. Such is level of the management and technology of porcine farming, today, that pigs brought up in some of these schools will inevitably produce sub-optimally. Thus, there is a strong case for upscaling classrooms and ancillary infrastructure across the land.

Beyond infrastructure, though, is the question of our current curriculum. At primary and secondary school levels, their philosophy and content are no different from what was taught in the 1980s. Surely, the nature of today’s workplace needs demand that we re-look and rejig these principles and their praxes. Without doubt, the absence of coding and programming classes in primary and secondary schools across the land is a major indictment of our present curriculum.

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