“University education is not for employability, you should be an employer of labor” – Unilag ASUU chairman, Dele Ashiru

Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU Unilag chapter, Dele Ashiru has said that it is a wrong assumption that university education is for employability.

Dele in an interview on Channels Television argued that if one has a good university education then such a person should be an employer of labor.

He said; “There is a fundamental assumption that is wrong: university education is not for employability. That one is basic. If you have a good university education, you should be an employer of labour. If you look at systems all over the world, only a certain percentage of citizens in the country should be able to go to a university.

“The rest should go to what they call a polytechnic, a monotechnic, a technical college etc. such that by the time they finish from those institutions of learning, as it was in Nigeria in the past, they can move into the industry as artisans and all that.”

According to him, the love for university education in the country is unnecessary. “And that’s why the pressure is on university education. Check any developed country in the world. Those who populate their universities are not from their citizens, he said