NYSC threatens to report schools with deficient graduates
National Youth Service Corps has
threatened to report the schools with highly deficient graduates to the
regulatory bodies for sanctions following poor quality graduates being
registered by some schools for the scheme.
The NYSC Director-General, Brig Gen
Nnamdi Okorie-Affia, said this during the 2013 Batch ‘A’
pre-mobilisation workshop entitled ‘Generating Credible Data for a
Perfect Mobilisation Process in Ilorin, Kwara State on Thursday.
Okorie-Affia, who regretted that many
organisations had rejected corps members after they found them to be
academically deficient, said the scheme had also discovered that some
higher institutions had been presenting overage students and products
of internally introduced unaccredited courses for mobilisation.
He said there were corps members who
could hardly communicate in English Language, saying the
development
had wrongly earned the NYSC a bad name
The army chief said, “You will agree
with me that it is extremely difficult to re-orient a corps member who
cannot read. To underscore the seriousness of this challenge, we now
have a situation whereby principals of schools and other employers
reject corps members because they cannot fit into their work schedule.”
He said getting accurate and credible
data from corps producing institutions for mobilising eligible
graduates had been difficult.
According to the DG, the data for
mobilisation by corps producing institutions in 2012 showed that many
exceeded the admission quota approved by their respective regulatory
bodies by as much as 500 per cent.
Okorie-Affa said, “The direct
consequences of this on the scheme is massive corps population
explosion, sometimes exceeding even the safe bound of acceptable
standards of geometric progression. This has made planning in the NYSC
rather difficult and is fast drawing the ire of both government and the
general public.
“I instituted an inquiry on illegal fees
being charged corps members by some Corps Producing Institutions before
mobilising them for national service.”
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