Graduate employability skills audit forum
Correspondent | Tuesday October 10, 2017 15:43
The main purpose of the forum is to bring together potential employers and university academics to interact and map a way forward towards collaborating for producing graduates who are employable.
A total of 50 participants, amongst them deans, deputy deans as well as chief executive officers and human resource managers from both the public and private sectors are expected to attend the forum.
The theme of the forum is: “Closing the Skills Gap; Employers and University of Botswana collaborating for change.”
The objectives are:
* To identify the skills gaps amongst graduates and address the imbalances.
* To explore the relevance of the curricula in relation to the employers` expectations.
* To develop partnership between the University of Botswana and the Employers to enhance graduate employability.