By Saheed Ibrahim
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said it has become imperative for Africa to develop an education curriculum relevant to the changing world and available jobs.
Osinbajo expressed this view at the 2023 Ibrahim Governance Forum with the theme, “Africa in the World: Multiple Assets.”
According to him, there is a need to have a clarity of vision on where Africa is headed in terms of education.
He said there was a need to give Africa’s young people a sense that there was a future and that promises could be made and delivered.
“It is the privileged young people. I use the word privilege cautiously because these are young people with education – local education or education abroad, some have college degrees and all of that, and there is a huge number of rural young people who have no education, and that demography has a large number of women.
“So, even understanding what educational programs we need to put in place and even the vision for that educational programme, you have to understand that we are dealing with several demographics.
“The final point is that we are in a new place where the world has changed so dramatically, particularly in the past 10 years, where we have robotic, artificial intelligence; what sort of education makes sense to create job opportunities today?
“This is the time to think through the educational curriculum and to decide how this curriculum will be relevant and would deliver the sort of persons that we want to deliver and create the sort of opportunities that we require for the jobs that will be available,” he said.
