The National Youth Service Corps has made plans to stop the posting of engineers to secondary schools to teach with other places where engineering isn’t the primary assignment. The agreement was reached by the Directorate of NYSC and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).

At the pre-inauguration stakeholders’ workshop of the 30th President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers held recently in Abuja, the President of COREN, Engineer Kashim A. Ali, said that the Council has secured an agreement with the Director General(DG) of the National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) to what he referred to as “prevent the wrong training and orientation of Engineers”. The Director of Mobilization of NYSC has also been informed of the new development and has made provisions necessary for the success of the policy. The COREN president said that,

“Posting engineers during their service year to places they will not benefit is depriving them the opportunity of training and by implication the country is losing. The DG of NYSC agreed with us and directed the Director of Mobilization to ensure that engineers are posted to only engineering institutions.



He went further to say,

“To help him, the Director of Mobilization requested that we should assist to give them the names of engineering organizations in all the states of the federation so that when they are doing their posting they will send them to such places.”
Posting graduates of every discipline to teach in schools have become a tradition in Nigeria and this has resulted to a negative effect on the Nigerian educational system which becomes obvious when these young graduates enters the Nigerian Labour market.

This policy would be a major step in Nigeria’s education system and we hope it gets enforced.

source : http://www.naijakick.com/nysc-will-stop-posting-engineers-to-secondary-schools/

Well said, but it should not be limited to engineers alone.

haha made me remember engineers teaching primary one pupils when i was serving in cross river state