According to Oguniyi (1979) a person who teaches a
course must have some industrial experience, business educators should be
adequately equipped with business skills, pedagogy for teaching various
business courses and adequate industrial experience this is because educators
must have a firm grasp of the subject matter of the subjects they are teaching.
Business educators owe this nation the role for proper, diligent and dedicated
teaching proficiency and also willingness to produce well trained and competent
personnel for various specific jobs on the market.
Many
educators (Balmer, 1988; Iverson and Jor Grensen, 1977) remarked that SIWES is
a meaningful work experience scheme combined with formal education to enable
students to acquire knowledge, skills and appropriate attitudes in order to
remove the artificial barrier which separate work and education and by
involving educators with employers, will create interaction whereby the needs
and problems or both are made known, such interaction makes it possible for
occupational curricula to be revised to reflect current needs in various
occupations.
Ahmed
(1990) stated that educators perceive Students Industrial Work Experience
Scheme (SIWES) as a skill development programme that complement, supplement,
enrich and strengthen the instructional process our educational institutions.
As I.T.F. (1991) rightly stated, the programme (SIWES) is designed to expose
our future graduates and indeed our future generation of graduates to
actualization of work situation they will meet after graduation, to produce
graduates qualified to meet the manpower needs of employers of labour in all
the section of the economy producing workable graduates.
Educators
perceive that SIWES is a skill development programme that leads to the
development of the right attitudes towards work and habit of mind conducive to
the proper use of resources. This will further spur in the students appropriate
social values thereby facilitating the realization of the philosophy of vocational
education, self-realization and efficiency as well as respect for the dignity
of labour.
Educators
also perceived that SIWES is to expose the instructors and lecturers to new
development in the industrial sectors.
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