Benefits

Benefits to Stakeholders of the Program

Opportunities for Students

  • An opportunity to work with successful organisations to be practically oriented whiles developing the requisite set of skills needed either for the Job market or develop their own ideas.
  • An equal opportunity is created for students coming from different disciplines, special attention giving to the female students and students with disability to engage with blue chip companies with direct involvement of program managers, the company managers, various faculty facilitators and UNDP officials.
  • Talent hunt leading to entrepreneurship for industrial expansion innovation and infrastructural development to meet the current global economic challenges.
  • The program seeks to provide students with an opportunity to build good team spirit whiles working together on projects to achieve a common goal.
  • The project also seeks to provide a unique platform for the students to imbibe good organisational culture as the companies engaged on the project are required to implement their rules and regulations.
  • Culture of work and school that focuses on UNDP SDGs 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10
  • To fulfil academic requirement.

Institutional Benefits

  • Complement the effort of the industrial liaison office in finding placement for the rather large numbers with limited spaces for industrial attachment.
  • Get more students to have industrial attachment with very good company personnel as their resource person.
  • Issue of space availability in industry no longer a problem which implies as many as possible students that want to have industrial attachment can partake without having to go out there to look for non-existing places
  • Get the attaches to get hands on skill transferee from the resource persons since the contact time is now extended per day unlike in the company.
  • The gap between academia and the corporate world identified by all parties with regards to programs of study and given the needed attention since there will be direct interaction between the resource persons from industry and the internal supervisors (Faculty facilitators)
  • Marketing students will take the opportunity to market the school innovative programs in the nearby Senior High Schools for increased number in subsequent admissions.

Corporate Advantages

  • An opportunity to IMPACT human resource through Human Capital Development whiles introducing prospective job seekers to the real trends and the skills needed to succeed in the world of work.
  • Companies identify the program as part of the fulfilment of their Corporate Social Responsibility and nation building activity.
  • Companies are indirectly forced to expand to accommodate the growing need and demand for their goods and services.