Officials from
INES-Ruhengeri attend virtually the official launch of African Centre
for Career Enhancement and Skills Support (ACCESS) project. Courtesy
University students from across the country are set to benefit
from a project that seeks to nurture their employability skills and expose their potential to the labour market both in the country and at the international level.
Gonzalves Nshimiyima, the country coordinator for ACCESS explained that the project will among other activities engage students and other actors in research meant to find a solution to unemployment, noting that some students will also be given scholarships to pursue PhD studies.
Prof. Utz Dornberger, the ACCESS project leader noted that they look forward to contributing to efforts meant to address the challenge of the high number of unemployed African university graduates, regardless of the growing number of universities for the continent.
“Numbers of university graduates continue to increase massively. We must, therefore, work together with our colleagues in Africa to offer young talents a professional future at their own doorstep. ACCESS can make a significant structural and methodological contribution in this regard and upscale its interventions to a network of 30 universities,” He noted
Beneficiaries buoyant
Théophile Shyiramunda, 29, and a Rwandan national selected through ACCESS project to pursue PhD at Leipzig University told The New Times that he had submitted a research proposal on the discrepancy between university graduates and market labour.
Shyiramunda noted that he was set to use knowledge and skills he will acquire to help his native country deal with unemployment by particularly disseminating his research findings for decision makers to plan accordingly.
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