Tuesday,
September 6, 2016
The
Chairman, Bestgift Group of Schools, Ijegun, in Alimosho Local Government Area
of Lagos State, Engineer B.C Madubueze, has advised parents to lay a solid
foundation for their children by exposing them to technical education.
Noting
that the realities of present day has shown that the only way out of the
unemployment quagmire worldwide lies in equipping our children with essential
skills that can help them become employers of labour rather than seekers of
non-existent white-collar jobs, he disclosed that that is what his group of
schools were set up to achieve.
Madubueze
who took journalists round the school premises to show them the hostel
structures and instructional materials for the technical college section of the
school which took off recently, added that with the present day situation in
the country where white collar jobs are no longer available owing to lack of
planning and gross mismanagement of available resources by authorities, it has
become imperative for our children to be equipped with the skills that can make
them self-reliant and employers of labour rather than chronic job seekers.
He
pointed out that with courses like electrical/electronics engineering, building
technology, computer engineering, automobile engineering, mechanical engineering
and etc, put in place, students are better positioned for future life
challenges.
According
to him, students that are exposed to wide knowledge of sciences are in a better
position to pursue science courses like medicine, engineering and other related
degree programmes in the university having had a solid pre-degree foundation at
the technical college.
"And
we are working with a science-oriented curriculum, the type that will enable
our products to cope with the challenges of the future, bearing in mind that we
are living in a fast-changing world where survival has become a matter of what
you can offer," he stated.
"The
platform we have in place provides products of our technical college the
options of enrolling for the normal examinations like the WAEC/SSCE, NECO,
NABTEB, and the City and Guilds of London Institute based on choice."