Graduate unemployment in Uganda: socioeconomic factors exonerating university training
Ssempebwa, JudeAbstract:
University training in Uganda is under attack, albeit rhetorically, for graduate unemployment. Thus, it has been a scapegoat for policy inaction and divestiture of accountability by employment policy persons. A recent study, ‘Factors influencing graduate employability in Uganda’, however, finds that socioeconomic factors, rather than university training, are blamable for the anomaly and recommends macro-economic reforms purposed to increase the availability of paid employment opportunities and feasibility and profitability of graduate selfemployment.
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| Title of Paper: | Graduate unemployment in Uganda: socioeconomic factors exonerating university training |
| Conference Name: | First Graduates Conference on Research and Dissemination of Findings |
| Conference Date: | 2006-08-28 |
| Conference Location: | Regency Hotel, Kampala |
| Published as Proceedings: | no |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Document Type: | Conference Paper (Not Peer Reviewed) |
| Subject Area: | Students |
| Country: | Uganda |
| Keywords: | Uganda, Universities, Graduate Unemployment, Training |
| File Size: | 58 KB |
| Date Added: | 21 August 2007 |