I was just pondering while on bed this morning. How do we solve this problem of 'half baked Nigerian graduates'? Along side the issue of years of experience which cannot be bought in the market nor acquired in school.

I then came up with an idea that what if it is made compulsery for every graduate to do residency just like the doctors do? I feel within the five years duration, they should be able to become professionals in their respective feilds and as well acquire a reasonable experience that qualifies them for a better job placement.
At least but for greed, I hardly see or hear of incompitent doctors.

Guys I don't know your take on this. Please share your opinions, perhaps one day our makers will be proud of us.

Thanks.

Go back and think of a better idea
Cos this one is crappy!

Tell me wat a Yoruba language graduate is doing residency for?

I guess u don't know the meaning of residency in medicine training.
It means specialization
Some courses re not meant for that

Best bet is. Every nigerian graduate learn a trade or skill with their various degrees

commitcrime:
Go back and think of a better idea
Cos this one is crappy!

Tell me wat a Yoruba language graduate is doing residency for?

I guess u don't know the meaning of residency in medicine training.
It means specialization
Some courses re not meant for that

Best bet is. Every nigerian graduate learn a trade or skill with their various degrees

Atleast there are other professional courses that are qualified for residency. The 'yoruba degree' has a target market right? Its' residency can as well be done in it.

Skills only suport in keeping food on your table, it doesn't make you a professional in your discipline.

Am considering the problem of 'half-baked graduates' here and not 'surviving in Nigeria'.

I think industrial training, field work, teaching practice etc is relatively synonymous to residency in this context

Op, residency is even not compulsory for doctors but a very large percentage of them enrol to remain relevant in the medical world.
However, I think it won't still be fair if u use doctors as ur benchmark reference because even during residency, doctors earn relatively big!
I don't also see residency apply to all disciplines, postgraduate studies is an equivalent.

jechona:


Atleast there are other professional courses that are qualified for residency. The 'yoruba degree' has a target market right? Its' residency can as well be done in it.

Skills only suport in keeping food on your table, it doesn't make you a professional in your discipline.

Am considering the problem of 'half-baked graduates' here and not 'surviving in Nigeria'.

Many lay more emphasis on survival, I do. Everybody doesn't have to be a specialist.

Pomzy:
I think industrial training, field work, teaching practice etc is relatively synonymous to residency in this context

How many years experience that qualifies you for a job did you get when you did your industrial training

heykims:
Op, residency is even not compulsory for doctors but a very large percentage of them enrol to remain relevant in the medical world.
However, I think it won't still be fair if u use doctors as ur benchmark reference because even during residency, doctors earn relatively big!
I don't also see residency apply to all disciplines, postgraduate studies is an equivalent.

The money doctors earn is not the issue for now. You agree with me, the doctors that did residency are mostly better than those that did not.

How many years of experience will postgraduate studies give you

I guess you have not seen someone with PHD but cannot be employ because he/she lacks years of experience in the field or you think the people with PHD that applied to be dangote drivers did not merit their degrees.

jechona:


How many years experience that qualifies you for a job did you get when you did your industrial training

And residency is for how many years??

opeaceo:
And residency is for how many years??

I beg help me ask him oooo

The solution... During NYSC should be posted to companies /industries in their field
And more companies should be mandated to do graduate Trainee programs.

I doubt that even in countries where the education is great, they don't just pick graduates and place them in positions of responsibility without them going through some form of graduate program.

opeaceo:
And residency is for how many years??

How about 5 years? Ask your doctor friend.

Negative-minded nairalanders. Good idea bro, only that its not practicable due to the population of students relative to the place of residency.

gerahere, Nigerian graduates are not half baked say for a few who got into schoool fraudulently. God punish all those callin them half baked. go to uk,usa and other countries and see as nigerains doing masters there excell , as for the OP residency where when people connot even get place to do IT

jechona:

How about 5 years? Ask your doctor friend.

I asked and it is generally 3 - 6 years depending in the course. Now you're suggesting a 3 - 6 years "training" for all graduates?? What happened to Industrial training? Field work? Teaching practice?

jechona:
I was just pondering while on bed this morning. How do we solve this problem of 'half baked Nigerian graduates'? Along side the issue of years of experience which cannot be bought in the market nor acquired in school.

I then came up with an idea that what if it is made compulsery for every graduate to do residency just like the doctors do? I feel within the five years duration, they should be able to become professionals in their respective feilds and as well acquire a reasonable experience that qualifies them for a better job placement.
At least but for greed, [s]I hardly see or hear of incompitent doctors.
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Guys I don't know your take on this. Please share your opinions, perhaps one day our makers will be proud of us.

Thanks.

I laugh out in Spanish

opeaceo:

I asked and it is generally 3 - 6 years depending in the course.
Now you're suggesting a 3 - 6 years "training" for all graduates??
What happened to Industrial training? Field work? Teaching practice?

so now compare the experience you will have in 6 years of a well paid traning where your employers will be very serious with you due to the money involved to the experience you will have from a 6months IT or 3months teaching practice where you are mostly not paid and your employer gives little to no seriousness to the course.

Tell me who will be able to stand before you and open his or her dirty mouth to say you are incompetent after such gargantuan experience.

I don't think we need residency.


Our education system just have to be challenging enough to equip us with what we need to be more desired by employers.

jechona:


so now compare the experience you will have in 6 years of a well paid traning where your employers will be very serious with you due to the money involved to the experience you will have from a 6months IT or 3months teaching practice where you are mostly not paid and your employer gives little to no seriousness to the course.

Tell me who will be able to stand before you and open his or her dirty mouth to say you are incompetent after such gargantuan experience.

And you think companies would gladly pay you for 6 years in the name of "gathering experience"?

BTW, where are the companies would be willing to do that? Something I think resemble such is the graduate trainee program that lasts a year, max 2 years, how much are they being paid? What experience (s) do they gather?? Most times they do the job of technicians (no insult intended).

opeaceo:

And you think companies would gladly pay you for 6 years in the name of "gathering experience"?

BTW, where are the companies would be willing to do that? Something I think resemble such is the graduate trainee program that lasts a year, max 2 years, how much are they being paid? What experience (s) do they gather?? Most times they do the job of technicians (no insult intended).

Atleast you can attest that after the graduate trainee program they become more useful to the company and someother companies too.

It is not petinent for it to be for 6 years, denpending on your area of study, it may vary.

jechona:


Atleast you can attest that after the graduate trainee program they become more useful to the company and someother companies too.

It is not petinent for it to be for 6 years, denpending on your area of study, it may vary.

IMO, The industrial training program should be compulsory and our Tertiary institutions should be fixed, residency isn't a way to go...

jechona:


so now compare the experience you will have in 6 years of a well paid traning where your employers will be very serious with you due to the money involved to the experience you will have from a 6months IT or 3months teaching practice where you are mostly not paid and your employer gives little to no seriousness to the course.

Tell me who will be able to stand before you and open his or her dirty mouth to say you are incompetent after such gargantuan experience.

So what's the difference between what you just described here and graduate trainee programmes organised by companies? ?

Simply say companies should be encouraged to organise more trainee programmes. .

opeaceo:

IMO, The industrial training program should be compulsory and our Tertiary institutions should be fixed, residency isn't a way to go...

Industrial Training and Teaching practice is already compulsery but, the duration is insufficient. The OND and HND holders stand a better chance with the benefit of their longer industrial training duration.

jechona:


Industrial Training and Teaching practice is already compulsery but, the duration is insufficient. The OND and HND holders stand a better chance with the benefit of their longer industrial training duration.

IT isn't compulsory for all courses.

PresVA:
So what's the difference between what you just described here and graduate trainee programmes organised by companies? ?

Simply say companies should be encouraged to organise more trainee programmes. .

Yes or should be made compulsery for graduates. You know the one organised by companies is one hell of a stress and takes the mercy of God or the big man at the top to be enrolled in.

opeaceo:
IT isn't compulsory for all courses.

please can you give me some examples
To the best of my knowledge, you either gor fot IT or TP or clinicals or intern.

opeaceo:
IT isn't compulsory for all courses.

please can you give me some examples
To the best of my knowledge, you either go fot IT or TP or clinicals or intern.

opeaceo:
IT isn't compulsory for all courses.

please can you give me some examples
To the best of my knowledge, you either go for IT or TP or clinicals or intern.

jechona:


please can you give me some examples

To the best of my knowledge, you either go fot IT or TP or clinicals or intern.

Accounting, banking and finance, IRPM....

opeaceo:

Accounting, banking and finance, IRPM....

These adds to the reasons I thought of residency. The complications in the educational system are enormous sha.

Ok