RSW: 5,000 Final Year Students Jostle For 2,000 Internship Positions
By Kazeem Ugbodaga
At least 5,000 final year students of eight tertiary institutions in Lagos State are jostling for 2,000 internship placements under the Lagos’ Ready.Set.Work, RSW programme.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh, at a RSW sensitisation programme for students of the Lagos State College of Health Technology, LASCOHET, in Yaba and the University of Lagos, UNILAG, on Tuesday said at the end of the 13-week training programme, 2,000 students would be selected for internship placements in multinational and big local companies to acquire skills for a better future.
He said the state government decided to increase to placement from 1,000 last year to 2,000 this year to give more students opportunities to acquire life skills and competence.
Bank-Olemoh said this year’s RSW would be more of practical as about 700 facilitators would be engaged for the programme.
He said 25,000 students from seven public institutions and one private university would be battling for slots in the highly competitive training programme, while 5,000 would be chosen to participate physically, as the remaining 20,000 students would be trained through the online platform known as RSW Academy.
The special adviser warned that students who did not meet up with required attendance for the 13-week programme would not be allowed to participate in the internship programme, which could earn them better job placements.
He added that the government would be funding more business ideas this year than the five that was funded last year.
LASCOHET Provost, Dr. Moyo Kazeem acknowledged that RSW could solve the challenges of unemployment, not only in Lagos, but throughout the country.
While appealing to the state government to partner more healthcare organisations to broaden the work experience of students from the institution, Kazeem urged intending scholars in the 3rd edition of the RSW to make the institution proud.
At the University of Lagos, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who commended the Lagos State Government for establishing the initiative said the University was planning to set up an entrepreneurship centre and canvassed the support of the state government to make the centre a success.
However, registration for the RSW is ongoing till the end of next month and when the 13-week-programme kicks-off, scholars would be taken through many life changing courses, including general business skills, team work, entrepreneurship and global orientation.
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