The Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, has vowed that President Bola Tinubu’s administration Renewed Hope Agenda stop the false narrative among some Nigerian youths that school is a scam.
Minister Yusuf made this known while speaking at the National Stakeholders’ Workshop on the Development of a Roadmap for the Nigerian Education Sector (2023 – 2027) in Abuja Thursday.
He stressed that the agenda will ensure that graduates are gainfully employed rather than become objects of mockery on account of being jobless.
Sununu suggested that the only way to shut down promoters of the ideology is when youths who go through formal education are employed
He added that the recognition of the importance of the education sector is yet to translate to tangible results that show that an educated person stands a better chance of living a fulfilled life.
“This disconnect between purpose and reality could be said to be responsible for inadequate attention to the sector, wrong perceptions of the relative importance of the different forms and types of education. Indeed, I must also say that the inability of our youths to gain employment after going through the rigours of academics may be responsible for a gradually building dis-interest in the pursuit of education.
“To curtail this trend and make Nigerian education responsive to every-day realities and beneficial to the individual as well as the nation is what the Renewed Hope Agenda for the Education Sector is all about,” the Minister said.
He further called on all stakeholders to come up with concrete solutions that would help address the problems confronting the sector.
Sununu equally stressed the need for them to align with the 23 deliverables assigned to the Ministry in the 8-Point Agenda of the present administration.
|The Guardian
