Revisiting a topic covered regularly. From Agro Mind set:
Only 9% of final year students from various universities interviewed in Ghana want to start their own business compared to 64% of Kenyans. 50% of them want to join the conventional public and private employment base. 52% attribute lack of post-study employment to lack of family connections. Who should establish these companies for them to work in? Is the ordinary Ghanaian programmed to seek comfort above all? How can we develop our economy if there's lack of entrepreneurship drive among our youth? Will we always be running outside seeking for foreign investments and giving them ridiculous benefits such as taking all the profit outside? Who should establish the multi-billion companies to employ 1000s of people?
via Times Higher Education
Africa’s self-starters need fresh pedagogical approach Sub-Saharan universities must adapt to the shifting career aims of their future graduates, this study suggests:Universities in sub-Saharan Africa must adapt to serve the growing number of students who no longer see their future in conventional salaried employment, according to a report on graduate careers in the region.
Research for the British Council shows that the region’s institutions are still providing rote learning even as graduates’ focus shifts to entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
While universities do offer employability services, including careers advice and skills development programmes, the study found that uptake was patchy and reached only a minority of students.
