Education No Longer at Ease: The Necessity to Build a New Employable and Productive Society for Nigerian Youths through Quality Education

Abstract

In Nigeria, education is in shambles; quality education is drifting away with the breeze of time; like wind and ashes that blow and leaving no alluring quality on employers of labour. Young people have become disconnected, disoriented and burdened by their never-ending predicaments in the labour market. While this is vexing and disappointing, this paper in succinct terms, appraised the necessity to build a new employable and productive society Nigerian youths through quality education. Among the findings, the paper revealed that improving the quality of education would bring about phenomenal changes in the employment rate of youths in Nigeria. Secondly, the paper also showed that building new employable and productive through quality education would reposition the development of science and technology to catch up other countries in job creation, especially the four Asian Tigers: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The paper also unraveled that Nigeria’s educational curricula is not only conservative, but that the managers of the educational sector are bereft of new programmes to initiate quality education for the well-being of youths. Sequel to this, the paper concluded that since education is the most significant means of change, overhauling the entire educational sector with new programmes, relevant and contemporary knowledge and skills to become employable and productive. Based on these findings, the paper recommended amongst others, that improving the quality of education would birth higher employment rate for youths and make them productive. Finally, improving the quality of education would usher in positive changes, particularly in the thoughts of those eager to change the poor narrative of educational sector in the country.

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