SIWES HELD AT ANAMBRA BROADCASTING STATION, ANAMBRA STATE

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction to SIWES

Student industrial work experience (SIWES) is a skill training designed to prepare and expose student of the institution to the industrial work situation they are likely to meet after graduation. The need for the establishment of the scheme arose when there was a growing concern among industries that graduate of institution of higher learning lacked adequate practical background required for employment in industries.

The scheme is designed for all universities, polytechnics and college of education, to complement classroom teaching in the courses and acquaint with the skills needed in the industries after graduation. The scheme is funded by the federal government of Nigeria and jointly coordinated by the national universities commission (NUC) and the industrial training fund (ITF).

SIWES was established by ITF (industrial training fund) in the year 1973 to solve the problem of lack of adequate proper skills for employment of tertiary institution graduate by Nigeria industries. The student’ industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) was founded to be a skill training programmed to help expose and prepare students of universities, polytechnics and college of education for the industrial work situation to be met after graduation. This scheme serves as a smooth transition from the classroom to the world of work and further helps in the application of knowledge. The scheme provides studentswith the opportunity of acquainting and exposing themselves to the experience required in handling and managing of equipment and machinery that are usually not made available in their institutions.

Before this scheme was established, there was growing concern and trend noticed by industrialists that graduate of higher institutions lacked sufficient practical background for employment. It is used to be that students who got into Nigerian institutions to study science and technology were not trained in the practical know-how of their various fields of study. As a result, they could not easily find jobs due to the lack of working experience.

Therefore, the employers thought that theoretical education going on in higher institutions was responsive to the needs of the employers of labour. This was a huge problem for thousands of Nigerian until 1971. It is against the background that the fundamental reasons for initiating and designing the scheme by the fund in 1973/74 was introduced.

The ITF organization (industrial Training Fund) made a decision to help all interested Nigerian students and established the SIWES program. It was officially approved and presented by the federal government in 1974. The scheme was solely ITF during its formative years but as the financial involvement became unbearable to the fund, it withdrew from the scheme in 1978. In 1979, the federal government handed over management of the scheme to both national universities Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)

Later, in November 1984, the federal government reverted the management and implementation of the scheme to ITF. In July 1985, it was taken over by the industrial Training Fund (ITF) while the funding was solely bone by the federal government.

Aim and Objectives of SIWES

SIWES is strategized for skill acquisition, it is designed to prepare and expose students of universities, polytechnics, college of education to the real-life work situation they would be engaged in after graduation. Therefore, SIWES is a key factor required to inject and help keep alive industrialization and economic development in the nation through the introduction and practical teaching of scientific and technological skills to students, (Culled from Detailed Manuel on SIWES Guidelines and Operations for Tertiary Institutions).

Objectives of the Students Industrial Work experience Scheme include:

Provide with an avenue for students to acquire industrial skills for experience during their course of study
Expose students to work methods and techniques that may not be available during their course of study
Bringing the gap between theory and practical a platform to apply knowledge learnt in school to real work situations.

Importance of SIWES

exposes students to more practical work methods and techniques in their various field of study
it provides students with an opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge to real life situations
it is one of the requirements needed for the award of National Diploma Certificate (ND)

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