NDE Flags Off Graduate Coaching Scheme In Zamfara

National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has kicked off an orientation for the Graduate Coaching Scheme (GCS) in Zamfara State.

The training, which is under the Special Public Works Department, was approved nationwide for implementation by the director-general of the NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo.

At the ceremony, Fikpo said the Graduate Coaching Scheme is a concept designed to help students and graduate of secondary schools that have deficiencies in their grades in JAMB, WAEC, NECO, GCE and NABTEB examinations to make up for such grades that will qualify them for admission into tertiary institutions.

Represented by the acting state coordinator NDE Zamfara State, Mallam Mustapha Aliyu Goniri, Fikpo said it is also aimed at preparing and coaching students for both internal and external examinations.

“Equally, the programme is developed to produce, qualified, employable and marketable personnel for medium scale enterprise, thereby reducing unemployment rates within the unemployed school leavers.

“Let me at this juncture point out that the Graduate Coaching scheme is currently being implemented in all the states of the federation including FCT, with one centre in each of the senatorial districts of the country,” he said.

In Zamfara State, he noted that the coaching classes will hold in the three senatorial districts-Central Senatorial District – Government Girls Arabic School (GGASS) Gusau, Northern Senatorial District – Bashar Model Primary & Secondary School, Kanwuri Kaura-Namoda and Western Senatorial District Agwaragi Secondary School, Talata-Mafara.

Also, the director of special public works Mrs Roseline Olaomi Silvia, said the extra-mural classes are already going on in centres and schools in the three senatorial districts of the state.

She urged students and participants to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the National Directorate of Employment to attend the coaching classes.