The Nationwide President of the College of Ilorin Alumni Affiliation, Prof Abdulrasaq Kilani, on Sunday, warned youths towards describing schooling as a rip-off.
Kilani additionally decried the massive variety of first-class graduates being churned out by the personal universities, urging the Nationwide Universities Fee to step in for high quality management.
The Professor of Islamic Research disclosed this whereas talking in an interview with newsmen on Sunday, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital in the course of the Ogun State UNILORIN Alumni Annual Common Assembly and Taorid Odedele Memorial Lecture with the theme “Strengthening Alumni Associations for Societal Improvement and Progress.”
He defined that individuals going about with the incorrect notion of schooling as a rip-off would have themselves accountable later in life.
Kilani mentioned, “How can anybody say that schooling is a rip-off? If you wish to proceed wallowing in poverty and ignorance, then you’ll be able to say that schooling is a rip-off.
“The reality is that schooling liberates. Training affords you the very best alternative you’ll be able to ever dream of as a person. Training helps to uplift within the society.
“If somebody desires to be free from poverty, let him be educated but when somebody desires to go down, let him keep away from going to high school or being educated, so it’s incorrect for anybody to explain schooling as a rip-off..”.
He mentioned that additionally it is essential that the NUC look into the massive turnout of top notch graduates from these establishments for high quality management and to make sure that solely deserving graduates had been actually awarded.
Kilani agreed that the variety of first-class being churned out by the schools has elevated far more than it was up to now as a result of college students now have elevated entry to info with the age of the web.
He mentioned, “In our days at school, possibly we had a e book to 200 college students in a library and also you needed to go to the library a number of occasions with out getting the e book, that has modified now.
“With a faucet both in your iPad or Android telephone, you’ll be able to entry lots of info, which has contributed very largely to the rise within the variety of first-class graduates
“Moreover, I additionally need to consider that the scholars these days have higher main and secondary schooling than what we had.
“Most of them went to non-public colleges the place they had been uncovered to stylish educating methodology early in life, this has little doubt enhanced the standard of schooling acquired by these kids and naturally has in come what may contributed to the rise within the numbers of First Class graduates.”
Kilani, nevertheless, added, “I’m additionally conscious that many of those personal universities allotting First Class are working a enterprise. And one of many PR it’s important to do is to get folks to come back to your college and that’s the place now we have the pitfalls. For those who go to public universities, you don’t see such giant numbers of First Class graduates as you see in personal universities at this time.
“That’s an space of high quality management and high quality assurance that the NUC should look into. I’m not saying that the scholars in personal universities aren’t good or not being taught however one thing might be achieved to make sure that those that acquired the primary class merited it.
“A state of affairs whereby you should have 500 First Class requires concern, on the College of Ilorin, between 1982 to 1986, I don’t suppose now we have as much as three First Class graduands. I’m saying that sure the scholars could also be good, sensible however some could not should have First-class..the NUC should step in to stem the tide.”
He urged the alumni of varied establishments throughout the globe to discover a approach of supporting the additional progress and improvement of their Alma mater by tapping on their wealthy community to offer again to their former colleges.
Ayobamigbe Faloye, the Chairman of the state chapter of the affiliation charged members of the alumni to get entangled in nation-building
Faloye mentioned “We have to get entangled in nation-building. We have to look past networking for particular person pursuits and functions for higher societal curiosity.
“No one goes to show across the fortune of our nation, our communities, our society for us apart from us, we should due to this fact get right down to work.”