WE CAN’T CONTINUE TO GRADUATE UNEMPLOYABLE STUDENTS – ASUU

National President of Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, Dr. Nasir Issa-Fagee, has
said that the Nigerian universities will not
continue to churn out unemployable graduates
because of lack of training facilities in the
institutions.
The ASUU President, who spoke to Saturday
Vanguard in Abuja, said that though the strike
affected both parents and students, there was the need
for sacrifice by all the stakeholders in order to ensure
that Nigeria graduates competed with their peers in
other parts of the world.
He noted that the agreement which the union entered
into with the federal government in 2009 was due for
review in June 20th, 2012, regretting that many years
after the agreement it had not been substantially
implemented.
Declaring the indefinite strike as total, the ASUU
President said that though the strike had affected
academic calendar, the universities cannot continue in
the old way of doing things that was not beneficial to
graduates after their long years in school.
He said, "The academic calendar had already been
affected. For the fact that students were graduating
they do not even perform well when they get into the
labour market.
"I don't really know what is our priority, is it that we
just continue churning out graduates with certificate
who may not perform because they have not been
trained adequately because of lack of training
facilities, research, laboratories, workshops and
adequately equipped libraries.
" This is an agreement that was signed in 2009 and it
supposed to have been reviewed in 20th June 12 last
year, I hope we are now in July, 2013 that is one year
after, we have not substantially implemented that
agreement talk less of commencing the process of
review.
"So I think that is the key issue. If government is
serious, it would have substantially implemented the
agreement before June 20 and commence the process
of review of that agreement."

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