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Labour Market Demand And University Graduate Employability Skills
[A CASE STUDY OF NORTH-WEST NIGERIA]
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CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter focuses on the review of related and relevant literature of studies carried out by eminent scholars and researchers on labour demand and graduates’ employability. The chapter is organised under the following sub-headings;
1. University Education and Its Mandate
2. Theoretical Framework
3. Concept of Labour Market Demand
4. Sources of Labour Market Demand in Nigeria
5. Concept of Graduate Employability Skills
6. Empirical Studies
7. Conceptual Framework
8. Appraisal of Literature Reviewed
University Education and Its Mandate
University is a community of scholars, a cloistered home for contemplative scholars who share collegiality. The University is an academy of scholars, the highest and largest form of human and educational organisation with traditions and models of excellence and expertise in faculties and specialisations (Babatola, 2015). Babatola further described that university education is a specialised and higher form of education. University education is, therefore, an input and end-product of highly endowed scholarship and well organised academic instruction to knowledge, science (methods) and culture which is tailored by the largest forms of specialised human organisation.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria (2009) in education policy document defined tertiary education as the education given in institutions for example such as universities and inter-university centres such as the Nigeria French language Village, Nigeria Arabic Language Centre, National Institute for Nigerian Languages, Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEIs), and Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and Monotechnics to:
1. Contribute to national development through high-level manpower training
2. Provide accessible and affordable quality
3. Provide learning opportunities in formal and informal education in response to the needs and interest of all Nigerians
4. Provide high-quality career counselling and life-long learning programmes that prepare students with the knowledge and skills for self-reliance and the world of work.
5. Reduce skill shortages through the production of skilled manpower relevant to the needs of the labour market.
6. Promote and encourage scholarship, entrepreneurship and community service.
7. Forge and cement national unity and
8. Promote national and international understanding and interaction.
In achieving the above-stated goals of tertiary education, which invariably encapsulate the purpose of University education in Nigeria, each university as a tertiary educational institution is expected to achieve its goals through the pursuit of:
1. Quality teaching
2. Research and development
3. High standards in the quality of facilities, services and resources
4. Staff development programmes
5. Provision of a more practical based curriculum relevant to the needs of the labour market
6. Generation and dissemination of knowledge, skills and competencies that contribute to national and local economic goals which enable students to succeed in a knowledge-based economy
7. A variety of modes of programmes including full-time, part-time, block-release, day-release, sandwich and so on
8. Access to training funds such as those provided by the Industrial Training Fund (ITF)
9. Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)
10. Maintenance of minimum educational standards through appropriate agencies
11. Supporting affordable, equitable access to tertiary education through scholarships and students loans
12. Inter-institutional cooperation and linkages and
13. Dedicated services to the community through extra-mural and extension services.
The university education in Nigeria has led to the development of many Nigerians into sound and effective citizens. University education has led to higher self-awareness and self-realization of individuals at various tasks, enhanced better human relationships, national consciousness and effective citizenship. One cannot doubt the fact that the university education system has enhanced social, cultural, economic, political, scientific and technological progress in Nigeria. The country is more blessed now with specialists in various fields of endeavour: medicine, law, engineering, philosophy, education, etc. and due to this development, the nation is becoming more and more dynamic and self-reliant as the days go by. This has been made possible because of the university education. (Jake, 2012).
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REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]REFERENCESAbiodun, S. O. (2010). Analysis of mismatch between demand and supply of skills and university graduate unemployment in Nigeria. Unpublished M.Ed Dissertation, Lagos State University.Adamu, I & Dangado, K. I. (2013). Assessment of views of business education graduates on the effect of technological advancement on their employability in Nigeria labour market. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Developm ... Continue reading---
