Yesterday, Thursday 12th March, the government started an initiative of training lecturers, teachers in universities and other tertiary institutions about the employable skills as a solution to unemployment.
The program shall be cordinated through producing more efficient workforce whose brains are beyond the academic knowledge. It comes in an era where there are more job seekers than the available jobs.
“To be employed you require certain skillls, the technical skills that enable you perform tasks in a particular job but there are other non technical skills that are core and mineral fertilizers of skills like the ability to effectively communicate, the ability to work in a team and problem solving skills,” said Martin Wandera, the director of labour in the Ministry of Labor.
It also became evident at the function to promote youth empowerment through the integration of employable skills in teachers and lecturers but in order for this to succeed, the economic players in both private and public sectors must be ready to play their rightful roles.
Madinda Guloba, a senior research fellow who also attended the function, said that the government needs to do its job or the private sector in creating the necessary environment and for those who are job creators should do the same.
