ITF Moves To Strengthen Students' Industrial Work Experience

Taiwo Ogunmola Omilani 

The Industrial Training Fund, (ITF) said it has commenced moves to strengthen the Students Industrial Work Experience, (SIWES) in order to stimulate and sustain industrial development, grow the economy and create jobs in line with the vision of the federal government.

Speaking during a stakeholders summit organised by the agency, the acting director general of the Fund, Mr. Dickson Onuoha, said the agency would also meet regularly with both regulators and other stakeholders to think outside the box so as to improve the standard of the SIWES scheme.

He explained that the SIWES scheme was established by the federal government to solve the problem of lack of adequate skills preparatory for employment in the industrial sector by Nigerian graduates of tertiary institutions.

Noting however that the scheme which exposes and transit students from classrooms to the practical world has been grappling with the challenges of inadequate funding due to increasing demands on governments revenue and the increase in the number of students graduating from the nation’s tertiary institutions, Onuoha said called for a reduction in the number of programme has become necessary in order to make SIWES more effective.

He described the SIWES as capable of bridging the gap between theory and practical realities in the nation’s industrial sector, pointing out that ITF will continue to evolve innovative methods, considering that the scheme has continued to prepare students for the world of work.

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