Report on Industrail Training
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 SIWES INTRODUCTION
The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is one of the Federal Government policies established under decree No 47 of 1971 of industrial training fund. It’s also a skill-acquisition programme designed for the tertiary institutions as a complementary programme to the theoretical education and laboratory and workshop practices engaged in by students in tertiary institutions which, by industrial standards, are inadequate or insufficient to serve the practical needs of the industries. The exercise is for a period of six months.
1.1 HISTORY OF SIWES
As a result of the complaints from the industries about the practical deficiencies of the graduates of the nation’s higher institutions, the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), a body established by the Federal Government which engages in the training of technical manpower, undertook to make up for the deficiencies by structuring and establishing Students Industrial Training (SIT), as it then called, about 1973/74. With the rapids growth of higher institutions both in size and number, funding became a problem for ITF which single-handedly funded the programme initially. And by 1979 the management of the scheme was passed on to the National University Commission NUC) a regulatory body for the Universities and its counterpart for the Polytechnics, the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). Today, all the bodies involved in SIWES operations each has specific functions to perform. The bodies involved include the tertiary educational regulatory bodies: NUC for Universities, NBTE for Polytechnics, the National Commission for colleges of Education (NCCE) for Colleges of Education; the institutions themselves and the Organized Private Sector (OPS) together with Governmental establishments. And of course, as already stated the Federal Government and the ITF are all involved
1.2 GOALS/OBJECTIVES OF THE SIWES PROGRAMMES 1. Providing an avenue for student in
1.0 SIWES INTRODUCTION
The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is one of the Federal Government policies established under decree No 47 of 1971 of industrial training fund. It’s also a skill-acquisition programme designed for the tertiary institutions as a complementary programme to the theoretical education and laboratory and workshop practices engaged in by students in tertiary institutions which, by industrial standards, are inadequate or insufficient to serve the practical needs of the industries. The exercise is for a period of six months.
1.1 HISTORY OF SIWES
As a result of the complaints from the industries about the practical deficiencies of the graduates of the nation’s higher institutions, the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), a body established by the Federal Government which engages in the training of technical manpower, undertook to make up for the deficiencies by structuring and establishing Students Industrial Training (SIT), as it then called, about 1973/74. With the rapids growth of higher institutions both in size and number, funding became a problem for ITF which single-handedly funded the programme initially. And by 1979 the management of the scheme was passed on to the National University Commission NUC) a regulatory body for the Universities and its counterpart for the Polytechnics, the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). Today, all the bodies involved in SIWES operations each has specific functions to perform. The bodies involved include the tertiary educational regulatory bodies: NUC for Universities, NBTE for Polytechnics, the National Commission for colleges of Education (NCCE) for Colleges of Education; the institutions themselves and the Organized Private Sector (OPS) together with Governmental establishments. And of course, as already stated the Federal Government and the ITF are all involved
1.2 GOALS/OBJECTIVES OF THE SIWES PROGRAMMES 1. Providing an avenue for student in
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