The country needs to create a new educational system, according to Governor Kayode Fayemi, because the current “white-collar-focused” system cannot sustain national progress.
On Monday, September 12, at the official launch of the Innovation Development and Effectiveness in Acquiring Skills (IDEAS) project in Abuja, Fayemi, who was represented by the Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Olabimpe Aderiye, said that any country wishing to catch up with the rest of the world would need to invest in both traditional education and in the development of digital, entrepreneurial, and vocational skills.
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He stated:
“The educational system bequeathed to us by our colonial masters and the current system of education in Nigeria are gradually being overtaken by civilization and technological advancement, manifesting in artificial intelligence, automation robotics and the likes, thereby resulting in educational policy summersault and labour market congestion, with its attendant vices.
“Arising from this standpoint therefore, there’s the urgent need to rejig our educational system to proffer solutions to the avalanche of challenges confronting us as a nation. It’s high time we tackled the menace with strong determination for a paradigm shift from the white-collar to the blue-collar enterprises.”
