BENEFITS OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

BENEFITS OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

Benefits to students who participate in the Industrial Training are the skills and competencies they acquire. These relevant skills remain a part of the recipients of Industrial training as a life-long asset that remains with them. This is because the practical knowledge and skills acquired through training are internalized and becomes relevant when required to perform a job or functions.

Several other benefits can accrue to students who participate in Industrial training includes the following:

  1. Preparing students for employment and making the transition from school to the world of work easier after graduation.
  2. Enabling SET students appreciate work methods and gain experience in handling equipment and machinery which may not be available in their Institution.
  3. Opportunity for students to blend theoretical knowledge acquired in the classroom with practical hands-on application of knowledge required to perform work in industries.
  4. Enhancing students’ contact with potential employers during training.
  5. Helping students appreciate the connection between their courses of study and other related disciplines in the production of goods and services.
  6. Enabling students appreciate the role of their profession as the creators of change and wealth and indispensable contributors to growing the economy and national development.
  7. Exposure of students to the environment which they may eventually work thereby enabling them the see how their future profession are organized in practice.
  8. Minimization of the bewilderment experienced by students, particularly those from a non- technological background pursuing courses in science, Engineering and Technology with regards to different equipment, processes, tools etc. available in industry.
  9. Provision of an enabling environment where students can develop and enhance personal attributes such as time management, creativity, resourcefulness, leadership, initiative, presentation skills, critical thinking etc.
  10. Preparing students to contribute to the productivity of their employers and national development after graduation.

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