FCT College Of Education Moves To Reduce Unemployment

The FCT, College Of Education Zuba, has reiterated the commitment of the college to embark on continuous mass entrepreneurs initiatives to reduce depending on white collar jobs after graduation.

Provost of the College, Dr Sule Mundi stated this during the Combined Students’ Entrepreneurship Exhibition 2023, held at the school premises, yesterday.

The Mundi underscored the importance of enterprise and wealth creation, stating that students should acquire knowledge from the practical skill training to become employers of labour in the long term.

He said “It is pertinent to recognize your areas of strength, creativity and carve a niche for yourself in the business world. Those who will be wealthy are those that are ready to be employers of labour.

“The entrepreneurship has come to stay in our school. This is two years since we started and we will continue to improve on it and we are expanding it much more better for every year.

“We want to make sure our students acquires skills and they do not become applicants when they graduated. They will be able to do something on their own when they graduated and they won’t be any need for them to apply for any organization, they can build industries from what they have acquires here.

“We are going to work with industries, people we develop this into industries so that everybody can have access to it. We have partnership with several industries. So far there are some of our students who have restaurant now and there are some of them who produced some of these items we are seeing here today. For their level they have done so well and I’m impressed and I’m very comfortable with what they are doing.”

He assured aspiring entrepreneurs among the students of the support of the college, stating that the college will not relent in enabling students get the support and logistics needed to establish themselves.

On his part, the director, admin/finance FCT Secretariat, Alhaji Leremoh Abdulrazak commended the college for its commitment towards the success of the entrepreneurship exhibition.

He said, “This will be of great impact to FCT and we begin to appreciate the impact of the programmes like this. The important of skills acquisitions of training our children in life skills. Learning right from the school, skills to produce, to be selfreliance and self employe is addition to the school qualification they have come to school to acquire. We are aware that the state of employment in our country where we have thousands or millions roaming the streets holding just the academic qualifications.

“Education that cannot respond to the yield of the society is a useless education. Therefore what the college of education is doing today is responding for the need of our society so that by the time students here graduate with their academic qualifications they are also going with life skills. Skills to become productive, selfreliance and self employ and that they can even be employers of labour that is the essence of this programme.”

Earlier, the founder of entrepreneurship exhibition, Immaculate Ezenne, stated that it is with great sense of joy to and happiness to organize an event centered on students skills development in our college and invites dignitaries to witness evolving patterns of learning needed in our ever changing the society.

She said that the exhibition is extra special because it is entirely the efforts of our students and they are experts, but they are rather at a learning stage. The best part is that they have huge thoughts in their minds and wandering mind as well, which properly channeled can lead to classic creations.