If Nigeria
must attain the Vision 20:2020 national economic projection, concerted efforts
must be made to improve the human capacity competence of Nigerian graduates.
According to Mr. Robert Ikazoboh, Managing Director, Dragnet Solutions, Nigeria's leading computer-based testing and
talent management firm, the competence level of an average Nigerian graduate is
still low compared to that of their European counterparts, particularly UK graduates.
Ikazoboh, while analyzing the body of data that his company gathered over
the last five years through conducting employment tests for leading
multi-national companies both in Nigeria and the UK, noted that the competence
gap between an average Nigerian graduate and a UK trained graduate is 17 per
cent.
He said: "Using the Dragnet Graduate Standardization Examination (GSE)
which offers an independent source of reliable information of graduates leaving
our tertiary institutions and seeking graduate employment opportunities, the
nation can obtain some insight into the comparative performance of our
graduates.
"Since November of 2007, Dragnet Solutions Limited has been involved
in testing Nigerian graduate applicants. The data so far gathered offers the
nation a rough cut insight into the quality of our graduate human capital. The
tests measure reasoning ability in the workplace.
In particular, the tests are basic aptitude tests concerned with verbal
reasoning, numerical reasoning and abstract reasoning for the workplace. One of
the insights that the data analysis shows is that the average quality of human
capital being produced in Nigeria
is 17 per cent lower than that of the UK," Ikazoboh added.
This huge gap in human capacity, if not promptly addressed, according to
Ikazoboh, will eventually affect the attainment of the Vision 20:2020 vision,
due to the fact that Nigerian graduates are expected to constitute the pool of
workforce from which the drivers of the vision would be chosen.
To address this situation, the Dragnet Solutions boss urged the Federal
Government to embark on a nationwide assessment of Nigerian graduates, with a
view to determining the level of their aptitudes and reasoning abilities.
"Such a measuring exercise must be instituted such that it takes a
life of its own and continues year on year. Having a snapshot measurement alone
will not offer much in terms of information. The data collected must offer a
time series plot of our progress or otherwise across a number of periods. With
time series data, information will be made available to our national planners,
education authorities and other relevant agencies to help in their
decision-making processes."
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