Some educators including the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Lagos; Chairman of Vice-Chancellors, and Registrars of Private Universities in Nigeria have said internship and foreign education help learners become goal oriented.
Speaking at the PROU Education Symposium, titled, ‘Nigeria Study abroad,’ Vice-Chancellor, Lead City University, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, who gave the keynote address, explained that PROU was a stepping stone that prepared students to pursue degree courses in universities based in Europe, America, Asia, and Canada.
“It is from the little research that I realised how magnanimous PROU is particularly playing a significant role as a pre-degree institution as well as playing a key role in postgraduate and internship.”
NAPPS chairman, Lagos State, Mr Olawale Amusa, said PROU Education was a post-secondary institution, “which helps students to acquire qualifications that enable them to get admission into universities abroad, helps students get scholarships to fund their studies and arrange for students to undergo internship in the companies where RPROU has established professional relationship.
“It is logical to assert that a decision to choose Nigeria as their destination among African countries is based on the recent report that Nigeria students are among the top 10 of every university in Europe and Canada. The effort of PROU in arranging internships for the students will, in fact, be a great advantage to the country in that the Nigerian students under PROU sponsorship would indeed become marketable in the job market.”
Global/Country Advisor, PROU Education, Nigeria, Alaka-Yusuf Owolabi, who spoke on ‘Internship on Information and Communication Technology skills: The key to career development,’ said students would develop and achieve learning goals with ease, adding that it would reduce financial burden and stress on parents or financier.
“PROU’s presence in Nigeria is to orientate the Nigerian education community on the need for a continuous flow of educational development of a child by bridging the gap between the Senior Secondary School and the next phase of life after secondary school.”
At the symposium, the Chief Executive Officer, PROU Education, Nigeria, Dr Piyush Jain, said that a distinctive quality that distinguished PROU was the extent of engaging their students in internship programmes.
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