In this age of packaging, school
owners do not stress themselves much before they buy the heart of parents. Tall
buildings, exotic school buses, nice uniforms, and highly fluent phonetic
teachers are enough to set up an international school. Don't let the school and
the kid deceive you with fluency of words. If your kid has reached Junior
Secondary 3 (JS3) sit him or her down and find out the following:
1. Can you use all the microsoft
office tools to work? Can you program? Can you handle graphics and internet
without apprenticeship?
2. Can you solve quadratic equation,
simultanous equation, plot graphs, handle geometries?
3. Can you do metal work, wood work,
fix electronics, sketch house plan, estimate quantity of tiles needed for a
square area of work, understand polymer/soap/cosmetic production?
4. Can you manage a business and keep
all the accounting books? Can you calculate discount, premium, tax,
depreciation?
5. Do you know the content of a First
Aid Box? Can you perform First Aid for bleeding, drowned, fractured, and
poisoned patient?
Nigeria has the best academic
curriculum in the world but the problem is the will to implement it.
Everyone is shouting non-performance
of politicians, including teachers who only give our kids pseudo-education.
Nigerians complained in the the 19th century that western education only
increased the number of people that spoke and wrote while depleting those that
were available to till the ground. This made Nigeria to evolve her curriculum
toward technical. Outstanding Nigerian Doctors abroad are building and
programming medical equipment - this is made possible through technology
background at secondary school level. Mass Communication, fine art, nursing,
physician, accounting, business management, hospitality and a wide range of
other graduates are expected to use tools effectively.
Let us not create educated people
that can speak grammar only.
Odfid Technical Center is in the
process of bridging the gap between theory and practical in technical capacity
of Nigerians. CALL US ON 07037263653
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