{Workforce Development Authority (WDA) will be organizing trainings for university graduates in Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centers (IPRC) across the country to build their vocational knowledge that can be applied in relation to their areas of study.}
Recent surveys indicate that 13.5% of university graduates are jobless and some institutions offering jobs say that many of them lack skills to fit in the job market.
Nzabandora Abdalah, the coordinator of National Employment Program says that those who graduate without capacity to put in practice what they learnt fail to compete on the labor market and so will be retooled during a four-month training to explore how they can overcome such hurdles.
Talking to IGIHE, Nzabandora said; “There are some courses of which graduates fail to work rightly for lack of skills. We are partnering with districts and IPRC’s to equip them with some vocational courses to enhance their competitiveness at the labor market.”
Nzabandora further says that the offered training will be related to labour market needs in the region where the school is located but a student can choose what he/she wants to learn in accordance with capacity.
The chair person of National Youth Council, Robert Mwesigwa says that beginning this February, there will be talks with university graduates to identify those that will attend trainings.
Nzabandora says that among the skills to be imparted are; phone repair, plumbing, photography among others.
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