A Professor of Computer Aided Engineering at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Samuel Adejuyigbe, has said that recurring menace of poor funding and lack of technological advancement are the major problems of enentrepreneurial education in Nigerian.
Adejuyigbe said poor financial commitment to the policy has been impeding the implementation of the entrepreneurship education in many of the country’s citadels of learning.
Adejuyigbe made this statements on Thursday at the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, while delivering a Convocation Lecture titled: ‘Exploring Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Mechatronics World: The Place of Polytechnics in Entrepreneurial Educational Development in Nigeria’.
The scholar craved for speedy introduction of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Mechatronics in the country’s curriculum to complement the entrepreneurial prowess of the citizens, a step which would find lasting solutions to limited human efforts.
The renowned scholar said the country’s formulators of the education policy got it right by introducing Entrepreneurial Education, but this will be a waste if adequate funding is not provided.
He said the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and robotics innovations have helped in mass production of commodities in advanced nations and had helped to energise the economy for meaningful development as obtainable in China, Japan and other technologically advanced nations of the world.
He called on the Federal government’s agencies saddled with the responsibilities of funding education to pay attention to Entrepreneurship and Technological Education to afford students the opportunity of acquiring the needed skills and vocations that can make them survive after their education.
“With the relevance of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Mechatronics in an entrepreneurship environment, the Vice Chancellors, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and Technical schools should introduce as a matter of urgency to train more experts in the field and enrich our curriculum and to firm part of the major reviews in our education policy,” he said.
The Polytechnic’s Rector, Dr Hephzibar Oladebeye, added that the above technological innovations are essential in the world of business and industrialisation, which the country is questing and desirous to attain, saying same should be implemented to drive the country to greatness.
Oladebeye said only a country that has no vision and mission to develop would abandon technology in the 21st century economy.