{"id":8130,"date":"2023-02-08T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:46:13","slug":"tetfund-set-to-conduct-national-employability-benchmark-programme-in-nigerian-varsities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/tetfund-set-to-conduct-national-employability-benchmark-programme-in-nigerian-varsities\/","title":{"rendered":"TETFund Set to Conduct National Employability Benchmark Programme in Nigerian Varsities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund), Sonny Echono, on Monday, 6 February, announced the commencement of the conduct of a National Employability Benchmarking Programme in Nigerian Universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TETFUND-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The education agency pointed out that the programme was in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation(IFC) and other local partners, and the move was part of efforts to improve employability in the country and help steer higher education institutions towards better alignment with market needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Echono also said the IFC was utilizing its Vitae employability tool to provide a diagnostic macro snapshot of how well tertiary institutions in Nigeria were implementing employability best-practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the agency will also measure how tertiary institutions are establishing a baseline for employability, and potentially supporting the development of a strategic approach to sector intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his words, <em>\u201cThe IFC Vitae is a global first-of-a-kind, survey-based, diagnostic instrument which assesses, processes, structures and supports employability outcomes for higher education institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe programme provides system and institutional-level insights that helps identify key intervention areas that will enhance the employability ecosystem and improve graduate employability outcomes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TETFund boss further noted that <em>\u201cOne of the key roles of TETFund is to develop an enabling system for young graduates to be part of the active labour market soon after graduation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis diagnostic led by the IFC is the first phase of designing an intervention to improve graduate employability outcomes. The programme will help improve where higher education institutions in the country are presently in relation to global best practices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe first stage of the programme was to develop a snapshot of current employability practices, specifically to understand how the current regulatory policy framework may act as an enabler or barrier to success. The focus was to collect, validate and analyse the data of participating universities in Nigeria. This stage was coordinated by Cognity Advisory, a local development consultancy working on behalf of the TETFund with the IFC global employability experts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Echono lamented that Nigeria being a developing country the challenge of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment is at its highest level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: The Punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund), Sonny Echono, on Monday, 6 February, announced the commencement of the conduct of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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