British imposed wrong education model on Africa – Methodist Archbishop

….Backs prohibition connected schoolhouse graduations, blames insecurity, unemployment connected certificate-based system

By Steve Oko, Aba

The Methodist Archbishop of Aba Diocese, Most Rev. Godfrey Agupusi, has accused the British of distorting Africa’s acquisition strategy by introducing a certificate-driven exemplary that neglects skills, entrepreneurship, and motivation values.

Speaking astatine a property league up of the metallic jubilee solemnisation of Methodist High School, Aba, Archbishop Agupusi argued that earlier assemblage intrusion, Africans thrived successful assorted fields without unemployment, but the assemblage strategy placed excessive accent connected insubstantial qualifications alternatively than ability.

“Before the Whitemen came, nary African was unemployed,” helium said. “They introduced each kinds of programmes that marque radical unemployable aft graduation.”

The cleric warned that the over-reliance connected certificates has produced graduates lacking employable skills, fueling insecurity, poverty, and motivation decay. He called for a program overhaul that prioritizes craft, vocational training, entrepreneurship, and skills acquisition to nutrient self-reliant graduates.

Archbishop Agupusi besides condemned the removal of past from schoolhouse curricula, insisting that ngo schools stay captious successful balancing academics with motivation values. “Our nine would person been worse without the church,” helium noted, stressing that missions instill subject and quality alongside learning.

On acquisition reforms, helium commended the Abia State Government for banning lavish graduation ceremonies successful superior and secondary schools, describing them arsenic exploitative and misleading. “Stopping it is bully truthful that children don’t get the mendacious content that they person arrived. Economically too, it is draining parents’ pockets,” helium said.

Highlighting the relation of mediocre acquisition successful Nigeria’s insecurity, the Archbishop added: “If we inculcate subject and motivation values successful our students, they volition not hold to beryllium recruited arsenic thugs during elections.”

He further disclosed that Methodist High School would people its 25th day connected October 5 with the motorboat of a ₦500 cardinal improvement money to grow skills acquisition and ICT programmes, arsenic good arsenic implicit its imperishable site.

Supporting his remarks, School Board Chairman Dr. Emma Ndukwe said ngo schools person consistently delivered prime acquisition and should person stronger authorities support. Planning Committee Chairman Uwakwe Maduka besides cautioned that bully acquisition policies hazard nonaccomplishment erstwhile poorly timed oregon implemented, citing the challenges of adapting to the caller schoolhouse curriculum.

The Diocesan Lay President, John Ajuga, insisted that Nigeria’s acquisition fared amended nether ngo management, stressing that the church’s relation successful acquisition is not for nett but to reconstruct prime and values.

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