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Pro-Chancellors fault production of unemployable graduates

By Agency reporter

The National Association of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has expressed dissatisfaction with the production of unemployable graduates by universities in the country.

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The pro-chancellors said the high graduate unemployment in the country was being aggravated by the non-employability of some graduates.

A communiqué of the Third Biennial Seminar of the association circulated in Abuja on Thursday, also lamented that the nation’s university system was expanding at a rate higher than the number of academic staff being produced.

The communique by NAPCNU’s Chairman and Secretary-General, Chief Afe Babalola and Prof. Musa Abdullahi respectively, said there was also acute shortage of skilled manpower within the university system.

It regretted that majority of the beneficiaries of the subsidised higher education in the country were the elite whose children had been better prepared to gain admission to the available universities.