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TETFund, IFC partner to tackle graduate unemployment in Nigeria

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Clement Idoko | Abuja

AS part of efforts to address the challenge of graduate unemployment in Nigeria, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has begun the conduct of a National Employability Benchmarking Programme in Nigerian universities in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, IFC, and other local partners.

Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, said the move is part of efforts to improve employability in the country and help steer higher education institutions towards better alignment with market needs.

Echono, who spoke at the National Employability Benchmarking Programme in Abuja, noted that the ‘IFC Vitae’ is utilising its employability tool to provide a diagnostic macro snapshot of how well tertiary institutions in Nigeria are implementing employability best-practices.

According to him, they will also measure how tertiary institutions are establishing a baseline for employability, and potentially supporting the development of a strategic approach to sector intervention.

“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.

“he programme provides a system and institutional-level insight that helps identify key intervention areas that will enhance the employability ecosystem and improve graduate employability outcomes,” he said.

The TETFund boss further noted that “one 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.

“This 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.”

“IFC Vitae has been deployed in different countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbeans, and to hundreds of higher education institutions, helping them in developing a pathway for improving graduate outcomes and implementing institutional goals for graduate employability.

“The recent stakeholder roundtable in Abuja brought together leadership from Nigerian higher education institutions and provided an opportunity to share early findings from the program, highlight policy and process gaps, and discuss sector-level and institutional opportunities for improvement of practices supporting graduate employability.”

Echono lamented that Nigeria being a developing country is beset with the challenge of unemployment, particularly youth employment which is at its highest level.

“The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has put Nigeria’s unemployment at 33.3 percent, while youth unemployment in the country is at 42.5 percent and youth under-employment is 21.0 percent.

“Aside from that the 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index recently released by the Bureau reveals that 133 million people in Nigeria are poor, living below the poverty line, which implies that 63 percent of persons living within Nigeria are multi-dimensionally poor,” he said.

The TETFund executive secretary added that  aligning its intervention activities to meet changing needs, and strengthening the country’s “education delivery towards fostering an entrepreneurship culture are the best ways for unleashing the enormous youth potential, addressing unemployment as well as other societal problems, and growing the economy.”

The National  Employability  Benchmarking  Programme  is  coordinated  by  TETFund with the support of the Federal Ministry of Education, and the National Universities Commission,  NUC.

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