UB Business And Employment Forum To Create Opportunities
By Roland Mbonteh
Monday, 10 November 2008
The University of Buea will on20 and 21 November, 2008, organise “The University of Buea Business and Employment Forum” with the objective of bringing together managers of companies and job promoters on the one hand and students and university graduates who are either job seekers or would like to create jobs on the other. This revelation was made by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Vincent P.K Titanji on Wednesday 5 November , in a press conference at the Board Room of the Central Administration Block of the university.
The two days forum according to the Vice Chancellor falls in line with the new Bachelor-Master-PHD, system which he said enhances the relationship between the university and its community, public and private enterprises as well as industries.
Prof Titanji added that the forum also aims at equipping the youths and future graduates with necessary means and techniques for acquiring internship placements for professional training in companies and subsequent integration in to the job market.
This, according to the Deputy VC for Research, Cooperation and Relation with the Business World, Prof Victor Julius Ngoh, will be a good occasion for students to create contacts and build relationships with some companies executives while acquainting themselves with the activities of their establishments.
Ngoh said the new university dispensation (BMP system) that went operational during the 2007/ 2008 academic year seeks for professionalism in the higher education sector reason why the forum is important for the students. The professor regretted that though the graduates from the “Place to Be”, are academically qualified, they can not find jobs because they either lack the skills or competence in certain jobs.
This forum therefore, the Vice Chancellor said, will provide an opportunity for the employers to inform the university on the competences they require in their enterprises and the university will orientate its students towards such competences. “The competences that the University of Buea provides to its students will be matched alongside the competences that companies (employers) require from their would- be employees”, Prof Titanji promised.
Participants during the two days forum according to UB authorities will include managers of enterprises, officials of human resource departments, employment agencies, financial institutions amongst others. They will during round table discussions educate students and graduates on their recruitment needs. One of the hallmark of the Business and Employment Forum will be the signing of partnership agreement between the University of Buea and some corporations and institutions as announced by the VC during Wednesday’s press briefing.
The forum that will be the first of its kind in UB in particular and in Cameroon’s universities in general is expected according to the Vice Chancellor, to successively market UB’s products, its academic programmes and results of its research activities to its potential users. Views: 395 | Tell a Friend
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