It is necessary to acknowledge the fact that all universities degrees are not equal in terms of academic value based on the quality of individual nation’s human capital and infrastructural development and coupled with her socio-economic and scientific advancement.
Consequently, countries are grouped into three major categories by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) also known as G8 member nations which are: Developed, Developing and Least Developed nations.
Based on this development, individual donation to multilateral organizations by member nation’s category such as the World Bank and United Nations agencies varies from one country to another depending on individual national Gross Domestic Products (GDP) and in the same vein, development aids packages and loan repayment terms and conditions from the Word Bank and other multilateral financial institutions are based on individual nation’s category.
Consequently, the standard of education is much dependent on the category individual nation belongs in terms of socio-economic and scientific advancement which is being evident in their individual national GDP and to be reflected on her tertiary institutions enhancing the provision of qualified graduates for effective service delivery to the benefit of her entire citizenry.
Evidently, a Medical Professional with a Bachelor Degree from African University cannot have the same academic value with a Bachelor Degree Holder in the same discipline either in the United States of America or in any other advanced country because he or she was trained along side with the Advanced State- of- the -Arts -Facilities either in the United States or any of advanced countries which is not available in the Nigerian tertiary institutions with far lesser socio-economic and scientific advancement quite incomparable to the United States and other advanced countries. Evidently, most patients are flown to abroad for diagnostics as recommended by the Nigerian Medical Doctors due to the unavailability of the required facilities.
Similarly, an African Bachelor Degree Holder in Secretariat Administration would use a manual typewriter when computer technology is not yet introduced in the African country's University as oppose to U.S Bachelor Degree Graduate in Secretariat Administration who is already endowed with computer technology as the fundamental technical requirement in Secretariat studies.
Consequently, the African Graduates would start all over again from the Diploma level in the United States even though both of them are First Class Bachelor Degree holders from the African Universities.
In terms of University -to- Universty's Affiliation, not all the courses would be acceptable due to the unavailability of the required facilities in the African university unless they come over to the United States for studies beginning at the foundation level and depending on the course involved.
Consequently, the Western Advanced Countries have far less regard for degrees from developing and least developed nations across the globe due to their poor academic standard but have regard for degrees awarded by Western Universities instead except from South Africa due to white minority dominance as Lecturers in the tertiary institutions and endowed with advanced social infrastructure and technological advancement and evidently, became the first African country to host the World Cup in 2010 having the State- of- the- Arts- facilities on ground quite unlike other African nation.
Evidently, UNESCO had set up Committee whose duty is to reduce unnecessary Credentials discrimination based academic standard comparability among her member nations.
Based on this development, the European-American University Degree awards become the best alternative to most Africans both home and abroad either for study advancement or seeking for employment abroad and also for Remote Job opportunities (known as online Freelance jobs] without discrimination due to Western discrimination towards African degrees except through University-to-University Affiliation on certain courses in line with the Westen Universty's Curriculmn.
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