The National Universities Commission is planning to establish an ‘ industrial attachment ’ programme for university lecturers in a bid to improve the quality of graduates from the country’ s universities .
It is widely believed that , in recent times , majority of the graduates produced by the country’ s higher institutions are ‘ unemployable . ’
Deputy Executive Secretary of the NUC , Dr Suleman Yusuf , who spoke in an interview on the sidelines of a stakeholders’ forum with the academia organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission in Abuja , said there was a need for Nigerian lecturers to acquire ‘ hands -on ’ industry experience , similar to the sort of knowledge students gain from participating in the industrial training attachment scheme.
Yusuf explained that through improved collaboration with the private sector , the NUC now involved employers of labour in various industries in the review and formulation of academic curriculum in the universities .
But Yusuf added that the NUC intended to go further by getting lecturers to undergo industrial attachments .
“ We are taking concrete steps beyond curriculum review; we are looking at a situation now where lecturers themselves would be attached to industries for some short time attachment so that when they go back to the classroom , they will not be talking about theory , they will also have some hands - on experience . That is where we are going, ” he said .
Yusuf observed that industrial experience was vital because some knowledge could not be obtained inside the classroom .
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