MITIGATING CHALLENGES OF STUDENT’S INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES) THROUGH INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Abstract Students at their studies in Nigerian Universities, Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and other tertiary institutions of learning are expected to undergo a programme known as the Student’s Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), the programme is meant to expose students to real world practical work. Despite all the technologies available, managing the SIWES programmes is still facing a lot of problems such as lack of standard orientation, lackluster supervision, improper mentoring by industries supervisor etc. This paper offers some ICT remedies to these problems, with the view to mitigating the attendant consequences on the quality and standard of the exercise, the problem of lackluster supervision, improper mentoring by industries supervisors, among others have been identified. The availability of information and communication technology (ICT) facilities has the potential to change the narrative positively via a carefully packaged automated system which is discussed in this paper. Constant and continuous application of various ICT tools like computers, projectors, Instagram, WhatsApp, twitter, Facebook and Skype are herein is recommended for SIWES stake-holders to improve and add value to the standard of the exercise and suggest that industries and government agencies willing to engage an interns should make sure all related ICT facilities needed available, and internship should also ensure any industries and government agencies he is about to go for SIWES have related ICT facilities for his/her training and make sure to make best used of them.

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