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Title:Multi-faceted training and employment approaches as panacea to higher education graduate unemployment in Nigeria
Editor:Joshua, Segun
Year:2015
Periodical:Contemporary Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0855-4412)
Volume:3
Issue:1
Pages:1-15
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:employment creation
higher education
graduates
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC168609
Abstract:This article posits that if higher education graduate unemployment was only a mere suspicion in the Nigeria of the 1970s, it became an important social challenge in the mid-1980s. A review of the literature reveals that skills mismatch between the training offered by universities and skills required by the market, structural mismatch between middle and upper level manpower production, the scrapping of National Manpower Planning Board and poor attitude towards vocational training are the major factors currently fuelling graduate unemployment in Nigeria. The article therefore develops a framework for a new policy orientation in matters of higher education employment in Nigeria which will not only take advantage of the existing strengths within the Nigerian economy but will open up massive employment opportunities for higher education graduates. This framework calls for the deliberate opening up of five economic domains for graduate employment, namely, the agricultural, mining, hospitality, vending and Information Communication Technologies. The article identifies retraining and the provision of basic social amenities to Nigerian communities as catalysts to improved graduate employment in the country as these measures will contribute towards the reduction of social agitation within the communities. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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