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GUIDELINES OF STUDENTS’ INDUSTRIAL WORK-EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES)

GUIDELINES OF STUDENTS’ INDUSTRIAL WORK-EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES)

For a scheme as large as SIWES (in terms of students’ population, number of participating institutions, number of employers, number of stakeholders and the level of funding) guidelines must be put in place to ensure smooth implementation of the scheme.
The Guidelines for the Operation of SIWES stipulate the expected roles of each stakeholder and it is the adherence to these guidelines by every stakeholder that can ensure the successful implementation of the scheme and the attainment of its objectives and goals (ITF, 2004).
The expected roles of each stakeholder are as follow:


Federal Government
• Provide adequate funds to the ITF, through the Federal Ministry of Commerce & Industry, for implementation of the scheme.
• Make it mandatory for all Government Ministries, Parastatals, Private Companies and Commercial Ventures to offer places of attachment to students.
• Make policies to guide and regulate the scheme at the national level.

Industrial Training Fund
• Provide logistics and materials needed to administer the scheme.
• Compile lists of Employers with available training places for industrial attachment and circulate the lists to participating institutions.
• Supervise students on SIWES through its Area Offices
• Vet and process students’ log books and ITF Form 8 returns
• Pay students’ allowances and supervisory allowances due to institutions
• Organise Biennial conferences, seminars and Chief Executive Fora on SIWES.
• Arrange Group Insurance Scheme for students on SIWES
• Review and conduct research into the operations of SIWES.
Supervising Agencies (NUC, NBTE, NCCE)
• Ensure that functional SIWES Coordinating Units are established in participating institutions.
• Encourage the appointment of full-time Industrial Coordinators to operate the scheme in the institutions
• Evolve minimum national guidelines in respect of supervised training activities for programmes approved for SIWES.
• Vet and approve Master and Placement Lists and forward them to ITF.
• Ensure that institutions abide by the SIWES operational guidelines
• Ensure adequate funding of SIWES Coordinating Units in institutions
• Develop, monitor and review job specifications to guide the training of students on SIWES in collaboration with institutions
• Monitor and review courses eligible for SIWES
Employers/Industry
• Accept students and assign them to relevant on-the-job training
• Appoint industry-based supervisors for students on SIWES
• Control and discipline student attachees in like manner as permanent staff
• Pay students’ allowances when received from the ITF
• Provide medical care for students within the limits of the employers’ conditions of service during the duration of the attachment
• Follow tailor-made training programmes agreed to with institutions for the training of student attachees
• Permit representatives of ITF and institution-based supervisors to visit the students on attachment
• Grade students as provided for in the Assessment Form (ITF Form 8) at the end of the programme and submit same to institutions.

Tertiary Institutions
• Establish fully-staffed SIWES Coordinating Units in the institutions
• Appoint full-time SIWES Coordinators to operate the scheme at the institutional level
• Prepare and submit Master and Placement Lists to the ITF through the respective Supervising Agency (NUC, NBTE, NCCE)
• Place students on attachment with Employers in industry
• Organise Orientation Programmes for students to prepare them for industrial training
• Work out tailor-made training programmes with the industry-based supervisor to be followed by the students while on training
• Supervise students on SIWES at least on 3 occasions and sign their log books
• Assess students’ performance at the end of training and award grades accordingly
• Allocate credit loads to SIWES as recommended by the Supervising Agencies
• Submit ITF Form-8 in respect of each student to the ITF at the end-of-training
• Maintain separate bank account for SIWES funding
• Submit comprehensive reports on the scheme to the ITF after each SIWES Cycle.

Student Trainees
• Participate in the SIWES Orientation Programme before proceeding on industrial training.
• Be regular and punctual at respective places of industrial attachment
• Avoid unilateral change of place of attachment except in special circumstances and only with the permission/approval of the institution’s SIWES Coordinator and the Employer.
• Comply with the Employers’ rules and regulations
• Keep proper records of training activities and other assignments in the log books
• Arrange own living accommodation during the period of attachment
• Submit to the ITF, through the institution, the Evaluation Form (ITF Form 8) duly completed by the student, the Employer and the Institution.
• Submit Log Books, Reports and other SIWES Documents required by the respective institutions at the end of the training programme.
• Be diligent, honest and conscientious in all activities
• Protect and safeguard employers’ property throughout the period of training.


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