The Vice-Chancellor, University of Uyo, Prof (Mrs.) Comfort Ekpo, has said that entrepreneurial programme integrated into the institution was to equip students with skills for self-reliance upon graduation in order to curb graduate unemployment in the country.
Prof. Ekpo stated this when she received the executive and members of the Chartered Institute of Administration who paid her a courtesy visit. She said “entrepreneurial programme were introduced into the University of Uyo in view of the alarming graduate unemployment, adding that with the initiative, graduates would no longer go out in search of non-existing jobs, but they would be job creators after their exposure to entrepreneurial training.
The VC further explained that 200-level students of the university through the programme were exposed to general studies on entrepreneurial programme while other training platforms for skills acquisition included centre for skills acquisition and rural development and centre for entrepreneurial studies, among others.
Prof. (Mrs.) Ekpo commended the chartered institute of Administration for taking the lead in the further training of administrators to deepen their knowledge of administration, stressing that the induction ceremony of graduates of Faculty of Administration, University of Uyo, as the first of its kind.
Earlier the president/Chairman of the Institute, Administrator (Dr.) Goddy Idaminaboo, informed the VC that they were in her office to intimate her about the induction ceremony of graduates of the Faculty of Business Administration, UNIUYO, who had been trained and found worthy in character and learning by the Institute.
