The Graduate Coaching scheme of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is among the newest programmes to breach unemployment challenges in the country.
A document obtained by Blueprint shows that the programme has recorded success under its current Director General Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo.
The document further revealed that GCS is supervised by the NDE’s Special Public Works (SPW) department, and was designed to provide both transient and permanent/sustainable employment for the unemployed graduates especially those with teaching background.
The document said the scheme aims at preparing deficient students for various external examinations such as JAMB, WAEC, NECO, GCE, NABTEB etc.
While it provides opportunities that enable the students to make up for their deficiency in various subjects and also qualify them for admission into higher institution of learning, it also offers job creation opportunities for the graduates who will do the tutoring job.
Accordingly, the assessment on the success of the programme revealed the Graduate Coaching Scheme (GCS) has previously recorded tremendous success in meeting the set target and expected output.
The impact assessment conducted in 2018 showed that 75% of students who benefited from GCS had five (5) credits including Mathematics and English language. It stated that further execution of the scheme will improve the educational performance of the students and reduce the rate of failure to the barest minimum.
The NDE boss had told journalists in Abuja that PCS was designed among other objectives: “To create employment for unemployed graduates. “To prepare students for their various examinations in order to reduce the rate of failure to the barest minimum.
“To combat youth restiveness by engaging the students in productive academic exercise during the period. To assist students qualify for admission into higher institution of learning.”
He added that the target group of GCS is “the unemployed graduates of tertiary institutions, most especially those with background in education (Professional teachers), and students who want to sit for GCE,WAEC, NECO, NABTEB and JAMB so as to make up for their deficiencies in some subjects.”
He also said the implementation of the scheme would cover “three (3) senatorial districts in each State of the Federation and the FCT.
“One Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-Two (1,332) unemployed graduates at 11 instructors per Senatorial Districts and 3 supervisors per state.”
