Good People, take a look at your undergraduate engineering department in Nigeria, it is possible your school has broken the departments into pieces, creating more departments. Why? The more the departments, the more funding allocations. Also, with more departments, you get over NUC (National Universities Commission) caps.
In other words, for extremely popular departments like Electrical and Computer Engineering, you can get 4 departments, and that means instead of 100 students, you can admit 400 students! With those 400 students, the dean has more budgets, and the university gets more from the federal purse. Indeed,how we fund our universities affects our admission and recruitment strategies.
Then another College wll add “Education” at the back of those courses to have entirely new courses. So, you can have in one university Computer Science (in School of Science), Computer Engineering (in School of Engineering), Computer Education (in School of Education), Computer Studies (in School of Humanities), Information Technology (in School of Science), Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (in School of Science), etc…you can keep going with more things broken.
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Then check WAEC, there is nothing you will not see as a subject these days. In America, in the secondary school level, they have only 4 subjects – Mathematics, Language arts, Social studies, and Science and everyone does those. Yes, whether you are going to study engineering in MIT or Business Admin in Harvard, you will take the same subjects in secondary school, as someone going to study Political Science in Pitt. (But in Nigeria, we break them into Arts, Science, Technology, etc.)
In most private schools in the US, they have additional language which means that Language Arts will include English and Spanish. The Social Science includes your Geography, Economics, Government, Commerce, etc lumped together. For Science, everyone does Physics, Chemistry, Biology!
Will WAEC introduce Social Media as a subject? Anything is possible these days as we continue the experimentation. Personally, I am not sure cannibalization is the right strategy! What made FUTO so appealing to me was the 3-in-1 degree (electrical & electronics engineering with specialization in electronics & computer engineering). Today, how many degrees can you get from it?
At secondary schl,there is F. Acct and Book keeping, govt and civic, Agric and animal husbandry, civic, social studies and security education. Office mgt,store keeping, commerce and economic. If a student fail maths in WAEC and pass F.maths,no admission,the child must pass maths
— OGUNTOYE MICHAEL (@OGUNTOYEMICHAE1) November 10, 2023
Mathematics is the science of numbers. Pythagoras said that the universe is nothing but numbers. If you connect both, mathematics helps you master the universe. We must put efforts to educate kids on Mathematics – Ndubuisi ekekwe
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We have vehemently refused to create educational curriculums and systems that can work for us, instead we keep tweaking and cannibalizing the old British curriculum that was meant to train civil servants. Every attempt to change things is always resisted, because those who are in the system want to remain relevant, so we remain stuck with education system that serves others but Nigeria.
We always talk about reforms here, are our minds trained and prepared to embrace reforms? Once you get it wrong in your education system, you will never get anything right. Now you know why Nigeria has remained in stasis for decades.
We are badly educated, getting As in English language and Mathematics does not mean you have received good education, what people are loaded with here are completely decoupled and disconnected from who they are and what they should become. We are even unaware of our unawareness.