Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State has partnered a United States-based educational training systems company, CES Industries Incorporated. The partnership, according to the university's Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Valentine Aletor, is to further inculcating the entrepreneurial spirit in the minds of students of the university, who will be specially trained on some skills that will make them self-reliant and employers of labour after graduation .
The VC said the collaboration was in line with the mission of the university and noted that once the students are skillful on particular trades while they are still in school, they will be self-employed after graduation rather than to be looking for the non-existing jobs elsewhere. He added that the overriding objective of the university was to produce graduates that would be competing favourably with their counterparts globally.
Speaking during the visit to the university recently, the President of the partnering Industries, Dr. Mitchell Nesenoff said the unemployment in Nigeria could not be tackled by establishing more industries alone, but also by giving entrepreneurial-oriented education to the youths. Mitchell maintained that Nigeria might continue to experience brain drain if graduates of tertiary institutions in the country are not equipped with relevant entrepreneurial skills in the course of their studies.
Noting that Nigerians' craze for foreign education could only be tackled by developing the nation's education Sector, Mitchell stressed the need for Nigerian universities to focus more on practical aspect of students' disciplines that can place them side-by-side with their counterparts globally.
He noted that his organisation was ready to train the students of the university on satellite communications system, microprocessor module, digital systems, cable and wireless system, electronic CAI software, computer aided design, air conditioning and refrigeration, GSM/ cell phone repairs among others. The goal, he said, was to ensure that these students are equipped for future challenges.
