TY - JOUR
T1 - Youth employability and the problem of unemployment in Nigeria; an evaluation of the graduate internship scheme (GIS) in Nigeria
AU - Agaecheta, Uche
AU - Ufomba, Henry
AU - Elekwachi, Eze
AU - Ahamefule, Marcel
PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - One of the biggest problems Nigeria faces in recent times is the high level of youth unemployment. To address this, the Nigerian federal government framed and implemented the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) in 2012. The main objective of the GIS programme is to drive youth unemployment down by providing employability skills, work experience and opportunity to create business through internship placement, career development and entrepreneurship skills training. However, after a decade of the GIS programme, the problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria remains high. Armed with this observation, this study evaluated the outcome of the GIS programme to uncover the performance of the programme in terms of serving its objectives. To this end, this study surveyed participants of the GIS programme. The data collected showed that GIS has a poor outcome
AB - One of the biggest problems Nigeria faces in recent times is the high level of youth unemployment. To address this, the Nigerian federal government framed and implemented the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) in 2012. The main objective of the GIS programme is to drive youth unemployment down by providing employability skills, work experience and opportunity to create business through internship placement, career development and entrepreneurship skills training. However, after a decade of the GIS programme, the problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria remains high. Armed with this observation, this study evaluated the outcome of the GIS programme to uncover the performance of the programme in terms of serving its objectives. To this end, this study surveyed participants of the GIS programme. The data collected showed that GIS has a poor outcome
KW - Unemployment
KW - Youth Employment
KW - Graduate Internship Scheme
U2 - 10.58934/jgss.v5i17.247
DO - 10.58934/jgss.v5i17.247
M3 - Article
SN - 2735-9336
VL - 5
SP - 69
EP - 93
JO - Journal of Global Social Sciences
JF - Journal of Global Social Sciences
IS - 17
ER -
