ASUU, others meet to review education system STAKEHOLDERS in the Nigerian education sector, led by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), will Monday converge on the nation’s capital, Abuja, to review the education system and fashion out ways of repositioning it for better results. In a statement, Chairman of the Planning Committee and former president of ASUU, Dr Dipo Fashina, said the week-long education summit with the theme, “Towards a System of Education for Liberation in Nigeria,” is being packaged by ASUU. Others are the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), in collaboration with federal and state ministries of education and civil society groups. For the country to be a stakeholder in the global system, Fashina said, it must restructure its educational system to promote development. According to him, Prof. Biodun Jeyifo of Harvard University will chair the occasion while the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, is the special guest of honour. He added that the summit would review the educational system with a view to restructuring it to liberate Nigerians. He noted that the system as currently run is one sided, promoting the interest of the world powers who colonised Africa, thereby making even more imperative the need for an system that can serve the interest of Nigerians. “The four main unions in tertiary institutions are organising a national education summit, the purpose of which is to look for what will be a liberating educational system in the country,” he stressed. “Education in Nigeria is dysfunctional. “It is one-sided in the sense that it promotes the interests of the powers in the world, who have ruled Africa since slavery and after. It has only functioned to reinforce the colonial rule. This means we do not have an educational system that can serve Nigerians.” He noted further that Nigerians needed to be empowered through an educational system that could make them live a decent life, lamenting that the ruling class toyed with education by only emphasising profit making and entrepreneurship at the expense of quality.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:20:40 +0000
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