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Start
06/02/12
End
Suivi de l'Evolution
Impact Report
Critical Information Change
Milestone1 of 2
Milestone 1
Créé: 06/02/12
Last Updated: 06/20/12
Registration of more schools
Goals
To give other students opportunity to be part of the project---visitations to schools
We want to affect more youths---awareness to community youths
The problem is that our youth are unemployable yet they are graduates of secondary schools and universities.Our secondary schools and universities are theoretically base and are not exposing these students to the real practices of what they learn in their classrooms thereby making our youths with no practical skills. The youth within the age of 5-25 are yet to be seen in business and social enterprises which has led to corruption and unemployment in my country.This is because our schools do not engage these students with the practical aspects of their learning.
My Skills for Change project is the solution to these problems. We have introduced many practical sessions into the school curriculum. On each of the subjects-Biology, Physics, Agricultural sciences, Chemistry etc taught in schools, we also give the students the opportunity to learn those practical skills attached to these subjects. With several collaborations and partnerships with industries/companies- Mobil, Shell, Chevron, Halliburton and the Federal Government of Nigeria, this project has been a great success. This is a project that is designed to equip the primary and secondary school students for a better future.The project is aim at exposing the students to the real practical world of what they are learning in their various classrooms. The project includes workshops seminar, training, industrial attachment, vocational skills, and midweek practical class sessions. It is designed to make sure that the students do not just learn only theory in their classes but to practice what they learn in their classrooms immediately after studies.We strongly believe that our students in this part of the world-Africa can do better when they are expose to what they learn in class practically.
Using myself as a case study, I finished my secondary school without knowing some of the common engineering tools like the saw, hammer, spanners and nuts not until I was given the opportunity by a firm who recruited some school leavers for training. This exposure helped me a lot and I appreciated more about my field of study. Then I suggested to the management of the company to recruit more students from my school. It was a welcome idea that was implemented. The company requested that some sets of students should be sent for training on several occasions. And from statistics, the performance of these students was improved and more than 1,500 students were employed by the company. The above event led to the emergence of this project. we started in 2 primary and secondary schools in my village-Ibiaku Ntok Okpo and about 1000 students were involved in this training. some facilitators are also sent from different companies to assist in this training and 200 students are taken for industrial training/attachment every one by these companies.The project has improved the performance of many students thus making them employable and entrepreneurs and it is our desire to expand this initiative to other schools.
Suivi de l'Evolution
Impact Report
Critical Information Change
Milestone2 of 2
Milestone 2
Créé: 06/02/12
Last Updated: 06/20/12
Planning/sessions to build a workshop in 2 schools
Goals
establishing agreement with the school management
deciding the area to map out
The problem is that our youth are unemployable yet they are graduates of secondary schools and universities.Our secondary schools and universities are theoretically base and are not exposing these students to the real practices of what they learn in their classrooms thereby making our youths with no practical skills. The youth within the age of 5-25 are yet to be seen in business and social enterprises which has led to corruption and unemployment in my country.This is because our schools do not engage these students with the practical aspects of their learning.
My Skills for Change project is the solution to these problems. We have introduced many practical sessions into the school curriculum. On each of the subjects-Biology, Physics, Agricultural sciences, Chemistry etc taught in schools, we also give the students the opportunity to learn those practical skills attached to these subjects. With several collaborations and partnerships with industries/companies- Mobil, Shell, Chevron, Halliburton and the Federal Government of Nigeria, this project has been a great success. This is a project that is designed to equip the primary and secondary school students for a better future.The project is aim at exposing the students to the real practical world of what they are learning in their various classrooms. The project includes workshops seminar, training, industrial attachment, vocational skills, and midweek practical class sessions. It is designed to make sure that the students do not just learn only theory in their classes but to practice what they learn in their classrooms immediately after studies.We strongly believe that our students in this part of the world-Africa can do better when they are expose to what they learn in class practically.
Using myself as a case study, I finished my secondary school without knowing some of the common engineering tools like the saw, hammer, spanners and nuts not until I was given the opportunity by a firm who recruited some school leavers for training. This exposure helped me a lot and I appreciated more about my field of study. Then I suggested to the management of the company to recruit more students from my school. It was a welcome idea that was implemented. The company requested that some sets of students should be sent for training on several occasions. And from statistics, the performance of these students was improved and more than 1,500 students were employed by the company. The above event led to the emergence of this project. we started in 2 primary and secondary schools in my village-Ibiaku Ntok Okpo and about 1000 students were involved in this training. some facilitators are also sent from different companies to assist in this training and 200 students are taken for industrial training/attachment every one by these companies.The project has improved the performance of many students thus making them employable and entrepreneurs and it is our desire to expand this initiative to other schools.