Challenges around employability of engineering graduates in Africa : can industrial secondments be a remedy?
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2022-01
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With the shortage of local, competent engineering practitioners being a challenge to sustainable development, existing engineering ecosystems need to transform and address the challenge. The SIS project has shown potential in improving the professional competence (and thus employability) of engineering students through methods such as student industrial secondment (SIS) programmes and problem-based learning, among others. However, for such methods to work properly, more efforts and effective coordination among stakeholders in the engineering ecosystem are required.
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EMPLOYABILITY, ENGINEERING, PROBLEM BASED LEARNING, STUDENT INDUSTRIAL SECONDMENT PROGRAMMES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SOUTH OF SAHARA