Don Charges Students On Entrepreneurial Studies

Monotechnic students

            in the country have been charged to always take issues relating to entrepreneurial studies very serious while pursuing their academic programmes.

The provost, Federal Co-Operative College (FCC) Oji-River, Enugu state, Mr. Anthony Njoku, who gave the charge while addressing the Zone B students union leaders from various institutions in the South East, who called on him in his office, under the aegis of National Association of Monotechnic Students (NAMS), noted that it is the easiest way to escape unemployment problems in the nation.

According to him, graduates with entrepreneurial skill from tertiary institutions, especially, polytechnic and monotechnic, should be job creators and not seekers because with their practical background, they have all it takes to be self reliant , adding that such graduates should not have any business with the labour market.

Graduates with such practical knowledge , he further said, are not expected to be among those roaming the labour market in search of unavailable white collar jobs, charging students of the institution to always remember why they are in the campus.

Mr. Njoku also used the occasion which was part of activity to celebrate the students 2010 special day and recent re- inclusion of their students in the NYSC scheme, stressed that monotechnic remains a very vital institution in the nation’s socio economic development.

He, however, urged his colleagues in other similar institutions to start according entrepreneurial studies the attention it deserve because of its importance in the life of any nation’s economy.

The federal Co-operative college, he noted, is fully committed in equipping the students with entrepreneurial skills, with a view to making them self-reliant on graduation.

Welcoming his colleagues earlier, the zonal coordinator of (NAMS), Comrade Anslem Usuka, said the recent re-inclusion of their students in the NYSC scheme calls for celebration, describing the development as “a big achievement by the national body of their students union leadership, various institution’s management, and other major stakeholders in the monotechnic education.

Uzuka, a final year, HND 11 student of Cooperative Economics and Management, Federal Cooperative college, Oji River, stated that the re- inclusion of their students into the NYSC programme has equally addressed the problem of discrimination and inferiority complex among their colleagues whenever they, in the midst of university students or graduates

While hailing the federal government gesture, the zonal coordinator, also appealed to authorities concerned to expedite action in addressing the current discrepancy in the HND and university degree.

In their separate reactions, on the NYSC re inclusion, SUG president of Federal College of Land Resources Technology (FECOLART), Comrade Ubge Jerome and (NAMS) zonal secretary, Roland Eke, of Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu, applauded the government decision, saying it has given them a sense of belonging once more.