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:
- Preparing students for employment and making the transition from school to the world of work easier after graduation.
- Enabling SET students appreciate work methods and gain experience in handling equipment and machinery which may not be available in their Institution.
- Opportunity for students to blend theoretical knowledge acquired in the classroom with practical hands-on application of knowledge required to perform work in industries.
- Enhancing students’ contact with potential employers during training.
- Helping students appreciate the connection between their courses of study and other related disciplines in the production of goods and services.
- 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.
- Exposure of students to the environment which they may eventually work thereby enabling them the see how their future profession are organized in practice.
- 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.
- 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.
- Preparing students to contribute to the productivity of their employers and national development after graduation.