Over 1, 500 students
have been trained already by the new scheme
Government says this
will help boost the fresh graduates’ employability and entrepreneurship training
skills
The Lagos state government has
commenced an internship scheme for final year students of tertiary institutions
across the state tagged ‘Ready, Set, Work,’ an initiative aimed at equipping
fresh graduates with necessary skills to become job creators rather than job
seekers.
The scheme, which is being anchored
by the state’s ministry of Education, commenced on June 11, 2016 with the
training of over 1,500 students on basic digital skills.
The scheme is an intervention of the
Lagos state ministry of Education, aimed at providing entrepreneurship and
employability training skills for final year students in Lagos state tertiary
institutions.
Over 2,000 students filled the
application form for the programme, out of which 500 were selected to
participate in the pilot edition.
Special adviser to Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh, in a statement on
Tuesday, June 14, disclosed that on the first day of the programme, students of
Lagos State University, (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), and Lagos
State College of Health Technology (LASCOHET) gathered at the main auditorium
of the LASU, Ojo, to register for a digital training session by Google on some
basic digital skills.
He wrote: “The session was open to
all students, whether or not they were enrolled in the READY.SET.WORK programme.
Over 1,500 students participated in the training. On the same day, about 40
professionals participated in a train-the-trainers workshop for the volunteer
facilitators of the RSW programme, which also took place at another venue on
the campus.
“The delegates for the training
included volunteers from PricewaterhouseCoopers, First City Monument Bank,
Access Bank, as well as faculty members from Lagos State University, Lagos
State Polytechnic, and the Lagos State College of Health Technology.”
The statement added that the pilot
scheme of the internship training would run for 13 consecutive Saturdays
between June and September, commencing with a general module on soft skills,
and followed by two specialized tracks in employability or entrepreneurship.
According to him, top performing
students in the employability track will be placed on 6-month internship
positions at partner organizations, including PricewaterhouseCoopers,
SystemSpecs, Guaranty Trust Bank, First City Monument Bank, and Access Bank;
while students in the entrepreneurship track with viable business models will
have the opportunity to pitch to a panel of investors.
He said Seed Funding would also be
made available to students with the best business ideas through the Lagos State
Employment Trust Fund and other funding agencies.
This news will come will come as a
relief to many graduating students as they will not have to rely on the N5, 000
which the federal government promised unemployed graduates across the country.
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