The Registrar of the Joint Admission
and Matriculation Board, (JAMB)
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has urged
Nigerian youths to seek demonstrable
skills as a means of survival, warning
that very soon university degrees will
no longer be the sole guarantors of
jobs.
Oloyede said this on Thursday at
Kwara State University, Malete, while
delivering the convocation lecture,
titled “Learning, Unlearning, and
Relearning -Prerequisites of the Digital
Age.”
According to him, “new opportunities
will emerge in the high-tech sector,
and many skills that were not
otherwise taught in conventional
schools would be needed. Degrees
would no longer be the sole guarantee of jobs, but demonstrable skills would.
“In this regard, there won’t be
meaningful difference betvween the
literates and the illiterates without the
cutting-edge skills that are associated
with the triad – learning, unlearning,
and relearning.”
He also said that the imperative of the
triad in life cannot be overemphasized
as the tonic that gives vitality to
successful living in today’s information
age.
He explained: “Those who can learn,
unlearn, and relearn are the successful ones, and those without the mindset that accommodates the triad are bound to perpetually lament.”
He also said that the world of today is
different from the stone age, stressing
that “one of the factors responsible for
this change is the totality of what
makes the information age, which is
still evolving as technology develops
rapidly.”
He further said that the dynamism of
the world provides new opportunities
and threats, adding that while there
are new opportunities in information
technology, the existing jobs as
typists, receptionists, traditional
printers, telephone booth operators,
computer operators, factory workers,
cashiers, travel agents, and fuel
attendants, among others, are on the
verge of extinction.
The JAMB registrar also alerted the
audience, and indeed, Nigerians, to be
prepared for the challenges of the
information age.
According to him, “the onus of
responsibility lies on everyone to get
prepared for the challenges of the
information age by taking lifelong
learning seriously and being willing to
change as the circumstances unfold.”
The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, expressed
optimism earlier in his address that the lecture would broaden the horizons of the audience.
He said, “Because we live in an era of
unprecedented technological
advancements, the lecture today
would broaden our horizons. This is
equally true when our educational
institutions must become catalysts for
transformation, preparing our
graduates not just for the challenges
of today but for the rapidly evolving
landscape of the digital age.”
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