As a part of efforts to sort out the challenges of graduate employability and entrepreneurial expertise growth in Nigeria, the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC) is partnering with the Commonwealth of Studying (COL), Canada.
Performing Govt Secretary, NUC, Mr Chris Maiyaki, who disclosed this at a three-day stakeholders assembly, lamented the excessive fee of graduate unemployment within the nation,urgingthem to seek out options to those points.
Maiyaki defined that the workshop centered on growing and implementing a nationwide framework and methods to boost graduate employability in Nigeria’s larger schooling sector.
He acknowledged the talents hole and mismatch within the nation and expressed hope {that a} multi-stakeholder strategy would create a more practical employability ecosystem.
Maiyaki famous that in 2005, the NUC performed a wants evaluation survey throughout Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones to measure the extent of the talents hole.
Based on him, a committee, led by Prof. Peter Okebukola, was later shaped to align NUC’s methods with its strategic plan.
Maiyaki disclosed that the committee recognized a number of challenges, together with the difficulty of graduate employability, poor graduate high quality, and deficiencies in expertise growth and entrepreneurship schooling.
To deal with the issues, he disclosed that the fee established a expertise growth and advisory committee in 2018 to handle them, drawing on material specialists, professionals, and regulatory our bodies from each private and non-private sectors.
“The fee has since developed the Core Curriculum Minimal Tutorial Requirements (CCMAS) to handle employability and entrepreneurial expertise.
“Universities now have the flexibleness to design 30 per cent of their curriculum to replicate their distinctive environments,” he mentioned.
Additionally talking, Increased Training Adviser at COL, Prof. Jane-Frances Agbu, frowned at rising complexities on the earth of labor, significantly the difficulty of ability mismatches.She famous that the world is evolving, as corporations now want workers who can adapt to evolving challenges.
Agbu added that connecting high quality assurance with employability is crucial for making a workforce prepared for the longer term.
She identified that, in contrast to within the Nineteen Eighties, when a college diploma nearly assured a white-collar job in Nigeria, at this time’s job market requires greater than only a diploma.
“Graduate employability is now a rising concern for academic establishments worldwide,” she added.
