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 schooling.
Speaking on the StudyIn Global Study Conference 2026, Agbu urged schooling stakeholders to align with evolving international schooling and profession landscapes and assist college students make knowledgeable choices about their research and future careers.
For her, discussions on AI ought to contain mother and father, colleges, and different stakeholders to make sure that college students perceive the alternatives and challenges related to the expertise.
“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, mentioned there was a major hole between the realities of schooling in Nigeria and the calls for of the altering international studying setting.
Ofungwu mentioned college students want satisfactory preparation to compete with their counterparts overseas, a lot of whom are already aware of 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 mentioned.
The convention theme, ‘Future Ready: Succeeding in an AI-driven World’, introduced collectively college students, mother and father, schooling stakeholders and college representatives.
Commenting, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and founding father of Bloom Academy for Artificial Intelligence, Dr Lola Olukuewu, mentioned Africans, particularly Nigerian college students, must be geared up to be future-ready, particularly given AI’s evolution. She maintained that integration of AI into schooling must be balanced with an understanding of the worth system and the ethics of schooling.
“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 mentioned.
