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How can one go through 5 to 6 years of Engineering and can\'t use a computer?
Good Question Prince!!! but i think i touched on this somewhere in the forum,neverttheless, i will answer that question for ya.
I was privileged to attend one of the Federal Universities in Nigeria and can tell from experience...
it is very possible that one can go through 5 to 6 years of Engr and cant use a Pc. It is also possible for one to go thru 5 yrs of biology or microbiology and not know how to bisect an animal. How many Universities in Nigeria have a Computer lab.? Most schools that have biology lab, either have outdated equipments collecting dust or no equipment at all. Most pple that use PC in Nigeria didn\'t learn it from Universitty, most pple went to a computer class or frequented the cyber cafe....
Most Computer Science majors can actually tell you everything abt computer like the thoeritical part but dont know what to do with a computer when presented to them how much more browse.... Why ?? because , there is no hands -on in Nigeria Universities. A Computer science major shld be able to go to the computer lab and perform practicals and hands -on and apply what ever was taught in class, like wise a bio student shld be able do some pratical in the lab.
Sorting??... Yea sorting can play a role if one graduates as a Computer Science major and can\'t tell you anything or much abt PCs.
It is very pathetic, that sorting has become a norm in Nigerian universities esp the Federal Universities. A few Lecturers in Nigerian universities has turned the System to a means of generating funds e.g sorting, selling textbks, etc. when i was in school. sorting was like N1,000 per course and depending if the lecturer accept sorting, now to sort one lecturer, you are looking at no less than N10,000. Now imagine 50 students sorting this guy, we looking at N500, 000 just for this course oooo, some lecturers teaches like 2 or 3 courses.
The text bk issue is another means of sorting but i guess legally..... Some lecturers tell you outright..\" if you dont buy my book, you are going to fail the course\". Now you buy this book but only get to use chapters 1 and 2. and those that dont buy it get to fail the course regardless of how hard u study.
What happens to students from poor families that can\'t afford to sort or buy those irrevelant expensive books?? I guess the Universities are meant for kids from royal family that cld afford to sort.
What happens to those students that thinks its morally wrong to sort and against their belief??
Some times i ask my self, what the Senate and Board of council are doing inorder to eradicate all this nonsense. There is going to come a time when graduates from Nigerian Universities will not know their left and right abt their majors cos they sorted all thru.