The University of Ghana Students’ Representative Council (UG-SRC) under the 2021-2022 leadership in collaboration with Global Entrepreneurship Network-Ghana (GEN-Ghana) is delighted to launch the ‘Sponsor A Student for UG SRC Skill-UP for Jobs Bootcamp 2022’ fundraising campaign.
The UG-SRC Skill-UP for Jobs Bootcamp project is an experiential training and exposure programme that has been designed to train, inspire, and equip 1000 students with job creation skills. It is intended to be a weekend training programme over a one-month duration comprising in-person practical skills sessions that will focus on sequential employability skills in selected disciplines.
The participants will be coached to apply and showcase the acquired skill in micro-projects at the end of the training as a prototype on proof of concepts. Experts from industry have been poached to mentor the participants on their microprojects.
The bootcamp training programme will be climaxed with a Skills for Job Summit, where students will have the opportunity to ask questions from industry experts on the skills needed for emerging jobs of the future. This will motivate students to appreciate skills training at first hand.
The goals of this student-initiated project include to:
- Bridge the entrepreneurial skills gap of students
- Respond to the changing employment situation by encouraging initiative
- Create an enterprise culture and stimulate entrepreneurial activity
- Increase the rate at which students participate in experiential learning
- Provide insights and connections for students to be part of mentoring networks
Features:
- The programme will feature practical masterclass Skills training
- Skills for Jobs Summit and Expo event.
- Affirmative action for gender and persons with special needs will be considered
Four key practical skills training clusters which advance the targets of the UN agenda 2030 (SDGs) have been selected. These include creative arts, food business and agribusiness, digital and tech skills and micro manufacturing.
“Data from the Institute of Statistics, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana (UG), has revealed that only 10percent of university graduates find jobs after graduation. Support the UG SRC 2021-22 to change the graduate unemployment narrative by helping us to ‘Skill-Up’ UG students with income earning skills today so they can be self-employed and earn income after graduating from school.
We call on individuals, corporate organisations, development agencies, public sector institutions and the UG Alumni community to lend a hand to support this project to make a change together. Please donate now at https://ugsrcskillupforjobs.com/donate/ or via shortcode *887*17# on all local networks in Ghana,” says Prince Asumadu, President UG-SRC 2021-2022.
The expected outcomes include:
- Participants will be exposed to job creation opportunities
- Participants will create new business & new markets
- 1000 students will be directly trained and equipped with job skills
- Contribute to the Ghana’s achievements of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Provide students with life-long skills and experiences to thrive economically whilst helping Ghana to prosper
- Interactions with mentors will influence student perspectives on the possibilities open to them after graduation
- Participants will appreciate work and its function in the economy
- Participants will develop work habits and attitudes necessary for job success
“UG SRC Skill Up For Jobs is a perfect example of what academia and the private sector can do together to deal with the menace of graduate unemployment in Ghana. We encourage individuals, philanthropists and corporate Ghana to support the students to acquire these experiential income earning skills” -said Steve Gyasi-Kwaw (Country Founder GEN Ghana).
