Coscharis Tech MD Urges FG to Declare State of Emergency in Tech Education

Mr. Sunday Emomine Mukoro, managing director of Coscharis Technologies,  has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in technical education to make Nigeria competitive in the 21st Century.

Mr. Mukoro said that the call is based on the fact that the pace of technology development, at the global stage, is so fast that it has rendered insignificant the yearly meagre budgets, in the past years, of less than 1% of the GDP, to the entire education sector.

 While identifying with the change mantra of the present administration, he advised that technical education should be radically and generously funded.

There are persistent complaints that the products of the Nigerian educational system are unable to meet the expectations of corporate Nigeria.

Industries and commercial institutions have vacancies that educated Nigerians are not equipped to occupy especially in the areas of technical/engineering and technologies thereby consistently depending on foreign firms for such services.

Application of irrelevant curriculum and analogue teaching methods, Mr. Mukoro observed, are some of the reasons for the under-achievement in the educational sector. Education outcomes fail to match the national expectations especially in manufacturing.

There is an urgent national need to redefine and reposition technical and engineering education in order to transform this nation from consumption to production.

The Coscharis tech boss added that Nigeria must harness her vast human and material resources from the point of view of achieving rapid results from technical and engineering education.

Thus a legislated state of emergency in technical education would be an apt response to long standing prejudices in the Nigerian education system, which, have forced the status of an underdog on technical education.

Mukoro revealed that funding for this state of emergency can be obtained by directing the Educational Trust Fund, ETF, to invest 50 % of its budget on technical education for the next five years. 

Mr. Mukoro argued that this extra ordinary intervention which, he advocates should be focused on technical education from primary schools, to technical colleges, polytechnics, engineering departments of the universities, schools of agriculture and research centers.

The intention, he explained, is to wake up a sleeping giant, to wake up an economy hibernating like a blind snail by mobilizing resources lavishly to technical education – buying and deploying the latest digital equipment, training and re-training teaching staff to ensure maximal use, while paying special attention to the technical corps that would ensure that these digital equipment don’t turn to scrap in weeks as it has always been.

The impact would be that in 10 years Nigeria would be bursting at the seams with start-ups. Nigeria would be overflowing with skilled manpower enough to convince the world to manufacture their products in Nigeria.

He urged the government to partner with Nigerian ICT companies affiliated to international organizations who would give Nigerians the certification they require to compete with the best in the world.   

Incorporated in 1993, Coscharis Technologies, a subsidiary of Nigeria’s most diversified conglomerate, Coscharis Group, is in the forefront of innovative pursuits that will change the landscape for the deployment of ICT technologies in Nigeria. 

It is an authorized partner/distributor to some of the world’s best ICT brands such as, Asus, Huawei, Samsung, APC, Microsoft, Seagate, Mercury, HP, Lenovo etc. In her quest to pioneer hi-tech deployment in the areas of technical education, 3D technology, reverse engineering and manufacturing, Coscharis technologies partnered Solidworks, Solid professor, Creaform, Makino, Gerber, Makerbot etc.

With strategically located offices in Lagos (Victoria Island, Ikeja), Abuja, Kaduna, and Port Harcourt as well as with effective support of the Group’s network of Branches in such areas where we are not located, namely Maiduguri, Benin, Ibadan, Kano, Uyo, Nnewi, Aba etc, the company is able to serve its numerous customers from all parts of Nigeria.