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Unemployment: YABATECH unveils plans to empower youths with skills acquisition
The Deputy Registrar of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Joe Ejiofor, says the institution has provided an innovation for sustainable solutions to problems of unemployment, underemployment and skills mismatch in the country.
Ejiofor disclosed that the idea around the innovation was the need to empower youths who are most affected by the challenges.
According to him, the institution through its Flexible Skills Development Centre, (FSDC) in partnership with Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada, and Computer Telecommunication Engineering Association of Nigeria (COMTEAN), will embark on the ‘Skills-In-Demand (SID)’ Project.
“ This project is focused on implementing a workplace and community-based Skills Training Programme that leverages Open, Distance Learning and Technology to increase access, ensure competency, and meet skills needs of industry and communities.
“This is particularly in the areas of Mobile Phone Repairs and Computer Hardware Repairs which will go a long way to get the youths meaningfully engaged, further develop skills and do away constantly changing work environment.”
The deputy registrar disclosed that the institution would be having the maiden edition of the programme’s matriculation, to hold on August 21, 2021, to unveil the pilot project for new intakes.
“ This will be the first of many to come as the project is aimed at producing 46,780 competent Craftsmen that are more educationally mobile and empowered to gain employment.
“They will have opportunity to earn increased income and create more jobs in the informal ICT sector of the economy and even be employers of labour if they want,” Ejiofor said.
He added that the college had plans to extend the skills training to other sectors that are critically affected by shortages of skilled manpower like the construction and automotive industries.
Ejiofor explained that measures would be put in place to train more staff to qualify as quality assurance assessors and increased collaboration with industry partners.
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