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Posted by: Benjamin Onuorah
As I stood watching at the teaching hospital, where interns and doctors moved between the wards and beds, the IDs they wore confirmed the social experiment. Most of them bore the surnames of retired doctors, permanent secretaries, and serving professors. It wasnโt like those years when the 25-year-old pharmacist was a young man without a post-office box who, seven years earlier, had written his School Certificate examination at Ifira Community High School, Akoko. Things have changed!
At the Nigerian Law School and University of Ibadan medical college induction ceremonies, the graduands and inductees are now largely products of Telnet, Preston, Redeemer School, Deeper Life, Homaj, Hallmark private secondary schools. Unlike the years when Afolabi Babajide, a professor of computer science, who shared Form 1 with me at our six-classroom Ijebu Community School, or Femi Mimiko mni, a professor of political science and former vice chancellor who attended public established St Joseph's College Ondo, or when President Goodluck Jonathan attended Mater Dei High School, Imiringi, Bayelsa, rose through the public school system.
In the past, education and educational institutions were vehicles for social mobility. My generation - those who graduated between the 1980s to mid 1990s - were the last to enjoy the privilege of sitting side by side with upper class and the aristocracy at university common rooms and residences. At Unilag, you could be in the same lecture hall with Lt Gen Oladipo Diya kids. I shared restaurants and birthday parties with Rear Admiral Augustus Akhiomu's girls at the University of Benin. The Akenzua were present too. Now the elite have moved their kids to Covenant, Afe Babalola, Babcock, Baze, Pan African University.
The disruption in socialisation and social mobility now permeates the quality of students and staff. Education, especially higher education, goes beyond syllabi, tests, and measurement. It ...
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