Soon, degrees without skills will be useless – JAMB registrarThe Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board,
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has urged Nigerian youths to seek demonstrable skills as a means of survival, warning that very soon university degrees would no longer be the sole guarantor in the job market.Oloyede gave the advice on Thursday while delivering the convocation lecture at the Kwara State University, Malete.He delivered a lecture, titled: “Learning, Unlearning and Relearning – Prerequisites of the Digital Age.”The JAMB registrar said, “New opportunities will emerge in the high-tech sector and many skills that were not otherwise taught in conventional schools would be needed. Degrees would no longer be the sole guarantors of jobs but demonstrable skills will.
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