Oluchi Chibuzor
The Country Director of StudyIn Nigeria, Mary Agbu, has confused the have to be intentional and balanced in the adoption of AI with moral issues and the values of training.
Speaking on the StudyIn Global Study Conference 2026, Agbu urged training stakeholders to align with evolving world training and profession landscapes and assist college students make knowledgeable choices about their research and future careers.
For her, discussions on AI ought to contain dad and mom, colleges, and different stakeholders to make sure that college students perceive the alternatives and challenges related to the know-how.
“Education should continue to promote values and ethics as AI becomes more widely adopted,” acknowledged Agbu. “One of the things that we really push out in the college is values.”
The Chief of Staff and director at StudyIn Nigeria, Adiba Ofungwu, stated there was a big hole between the realities of training in Nigeria and the calls for of the altering world studying surroundings.
Ofungwu stated college students want sufficient preparation to compete with their counterparts overseas, a lot of whom are already accustomed to AI-driven studying environments.
“StudyIn is seeking to bridge the gap by providing students with the information and guidance needed to navigate global higher education opportunities and prepare for changing educational demands. Students need to understand their academic options, available scholarships, and the relationship between their chosen courses and future career goals,” she stated.
The convention theme, ‘Future Ready: Succeeding in an AI-driven World’, introduced collectively college students, dad and mom, training stakeholders and college representatives.
Commenting, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and founding father of Bloom Academy for Artificial Intelligence, Dr Lola Olukuewu, stated Africans, particularly Nigerian college students, ought to be outfitted to be future-ready, particularly given AI’s evolution. She maintained that integration of AI into training ought to be balanced with an understanding of the worth system and the ethics of training.
“AI has come to stay, from the realities we are seeing, especially since we’ve seen it happen before, through the advent of the Internet. We’re having a sort of repeat of the Y2K advent, with AI. The educational system is being revamped as well, and so we need to let our learners know how to be future-ready, so that the changes in the world and career space don’t meet them unprepared.
“As it is now, we’re being reactive because most of the educational systems globally are changing very fast. In fact, China recently revamped thousands of its courses and expunged them from its curricula because they have now become obsolete. We have to begin to catch them young by letting them know on time that the world out there has changed, and help them to reposition themselves in such a way that they are future-ready for the realities they are going to meet,” she stated.
