Graduate employability in Uganda
Subtitle: changing trend and the role of career guidance
By: George Wirefred Opiro.
Series: Career education series -- no. 1
Publisher: GetAHEAD Initiatives
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kampala, Uganda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
First sentence: It is no doubt that Indeginous African Education, long before the advent of Formal Education, emphasised skills development for self-reliance and sustainable development. The Phelps Stokes Commision Report on African Education, a commissioned inquiry carried out between 1922 and 1925 and presented to the British Parliament in 1925, recognised this and recommended that 'education [for Africans] should be adopted to the mentality, aptitudes, occupations and traditions of the various peoples, conserving as far as possible all sound and healthy elements in  the fabrics of their social life'. This, in Uganda, resulted in the attempt, in 1927, for vocationalisation of courses at Makerere College and upgrading the college into a university.
Description: 'Graduate Employability in Uganda: Changing trends and the role of Career Guidance' covers key issues, relevant for consideration in decision-making regarding employment and training options. It provides for thought-provoking discussions and epithepts on obslete practice and thinking, still on the block, relevant to examining standards and conditions of the learners as well as the demands of the job markets, the relaity of the factors of globalisation, development, industrialisation and comparative economic activities within the country, the region and golbally.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 44).
Table of contents: title: Policy quests for education for self-reliance and sustainable development in Uganda; title: Career guidance practice that promotes employability of graduates