Ben Ezechime, Enugu
The Enugu State Polytechnic, Iwollo, Ezeagu Local Government Area, says it has established a Business and Innovation School (EBIS), offering executive training on business management and leadership, technical, vocational and digital skills.
The Executive Director of EBIS, Mr Roland Ediawe, said this in a statement issued in Enugu.
He said EBIS would be run as a public private partnership initiative.
According to him, being executive certificate programmes, the trainings will prepare participants to succeed in any business and career advancement.
“We are aware of the demands of our contemporary knowledge-based economy.
“So, EBIS programmes are carefully designed to fill in the gap of modern industrial requirements.
“The programme will equip its students with additional industry-relevant skills and also prepare them to succeed in any profession or business and career,” he said.
According to him, the private sector involvement was in line with the polytechnic’s need to have a mix of private sector driven initiative.
He said that the essence was for the institution to leverage the private sector experience and synergy in providing solutions to enterprises.
He said further that the programmes comprised theory and practical approaches.
He called on private organisations to partner with the polytechnic in order to help the business school succeed.
The executive director disclosed that the training would be based on human resource, enterprise management windows, investment management and fund raising, job contracting, business development and consulting services.
Ediawe also said that the programme would be sustained through a collaborative and multi-level relationship among the relevant stakeholders.
He listed the stakeholders as the coordinating private sector and polytechnic, industrial communities and the private sector, and governments, among others.
“EBIS is different from other business schools because of the way the school approaches issues of capacity building in its comprehensive forms against what other training institutions do.
“Its programmes are holistic, involving both theory and practical, garnished with relevant case studies on the issues that are within and around our business communities,” Ediawe said.
He said that apart from gaining knowledge and skills, the school management would empower students with start-up capital on their graduation as a way to reduce unemployment.
Other assistance by the school to the trainees, he said, include job profiling, placement, internship and apprenticeship.
According to him, the programmes will run during the week and weekends.
