AFRICAN LECTURERS ASKS TO EMBRACE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO INSTILL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS ON STUDENTS 09-10-24
By Sadiq Aminu . The Vice Chancellor University of Education Winneba, Ghana Professor Stephen Jobson Mitchual has advocated for a change of teaching method by African lecturers through leveraging on emerging technology and innovative pedagogy to instill entrepreneurship skills in students for economic development and prosperity.
The University Don stated this in his keynote address on Emerging Technology and Innovative Pedagogy for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at the tenth International Conference of School of Science and Technology Education, Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger state.
Prof Stephen Jobson Mitchual said that is why a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from abroad is an Engineer while his peers in Africa don’t even have the confidence because they have not acquired enough practical skills to be on their own.
According to him, it is not because African graduates are not intelligent, as if they travelled abroad they perform wonders and were used for research work, what is required is a little push to thrive.
Prof Stephen Jobson Mitchual would also wants the Africans to continue to take advantage of multi media to improve local content saying that we have to do it by ourselves otherwise nobody will do it for us.
In his remarks, Vice Chancellor Federal University of Technology Minna Prof Faruk Adamu Kuta explained that the focus on emerging technology is timely as cutting edge innovations like artificial intelligence, block chain, robotics the Internet of a thing and other digital developments are not only transforming industries, enhancing business efficiency and creating new markets but also reshaping various aspects of our daily lives.
Represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor Administration Prof, Uno E Uno, the Vice Chancellor said conference like this can help policy makers, educators and entrepreneurs exchange ideas on how to harness latest technological advancement for long term economic gains.
He however ever said as part of new approach to cover the gap they have to go virtual, online to cover some students that they cannot accommodate to develop their talents to benefit their lives.
Also speaking NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi thanked the management of Federal University of Technology Minna for sustaining the International Conference which he said had improved significantly for years.
In a welcome address the Dean School of Science and Technology Education FUT Minna Prof Amosa Isiaka Gambari, maintained that the school is committed to staying at forefront of developments in education and to sharing knowledge and expertise in ways that will most effectively prepare their students for the future.