USELESS DEGREES: CASE STUDY FOR HISTORY MAJORS
Nigeria appears to be drifting to a state where anyone can do any job after a glorified degree in any field is obtained as you have historians working in banks instead of teaching and researching etc. A friend of mine responded comically in the affirmative to my delight “Leave that thing. I can study Islamic Religious Knowledge and still head Central Bank.” But not all jobs require a generalists, some jobs require specialists trained in a particular field. In the future Nigeria will return to the point where only skilled and specifically credentialed applicants will be allowed to perform certain jobs. For instance What is a history major doing in a bank instead of researching academia or a sociologist not counseling or in some social works project instead, when there are thousands of economics, finance and marketing majors more suitably qualified for a bank job. When that day of professionalism arrives many holders of certain degrees, in this case history, will be in for the...