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ORGANISATION AND OPERATION OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDENTS’ INDUSTRIAL WORK-EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES)

ORGANISATION AND OPERATION OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDENTS’ INDUSTRIAL WORK-EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES)

The Organisation of the Students’ Industrial Work-Experience Scheme (SIWES) involves many stakeholders as follows:

• Federal Government (Federal Ministry of Commerce & Industry)
• Industrial Training Fund (SIWES Division)
• Supervising/Regulatory Agencies (NUC, NBTE, NCCE)
• Industry/Employers (NECA, NACCIMA, MAN, Government Establishments)
• Tertiary Institutions (Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education) and
• Student Trainees (Engineering, Science, Technology, NCE Technical)

SIWES is operated as a joint venture through the contributory activities of the stakeholders identified above and as shown in Figure 3 below: (Mafe, 2009).
The roles of the various stakeholders are:
• The Federal Government (F.G) funds the scheme through the Federal Ministry of Commerce & Industry (FMC&I). It also laids down broad policies and guidelines that govern the scheme.
• The Industrial Training Fund (ITF), a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Commerce & Industry, is responsible for the overall management of the scheme in collaboration with other stakeholders. The pivotal role of the ITF in ensuring smooth implementation of the scheme is very clear as shown in Figure 1. ITF collaborates with all other stakeholders directly or indirectly.

 
 FIGURE 3: Relationships Amongst SIWES Stakeholders

• The Regulatory/Supervising Agencies (NUC, NBTE, NCCE) who regulate the tertiary institutions on behalf of the Federal Government ensure that the guidelines for the operation of SIWES are followed by the institutions.
• Employers, members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) and Government Establishments, are the ultimate beneficiaries of SIWES since they depend on the national pool of technical skills for the operation and maintenance of their resources. They are required to provide places of industrial attachment for SIWES participants.
• Tertiary Institutions are the primary beneficiaries of SIWES since the scheme contributes to enhancing the quality of their products. They carry out the implementation of SIWES. As shown in Figure 3, the central role of the tertiary institutions in ensuring the successful implementation of SIWES is apparent. The institutions relate directly with all other stakeholders except the Federal Government.
• The students are the direct beneficiaries of SIWES since they are the recipients of the training provided through the scheme. In fact, the activities of all other stakeholders with respect to SIWES are geared towards ensuring that eligible students have the opportunity to acquire relevant production skills (RPSs) before graduation. Consequently, eligible students are required to participate in SIWES.
• In addition, an organ known as the Chief Executives Forum and comprising the Chief Executives of ITF, NUC, NBTE, NCCE and the OPS, is responsible for formulation of policies for the effective management and implementation of SIWES at the national level.
While all stakeholders are involved in the operation of the scheme, the key actors or major players directly involved in the implementation of the scheme are the students, the employers and the institutions as shown in Figures 4a and 4b. Other stakeholders have largely a lesser role or involvement with the actual training process (Mafe, 2009).

  
 
The relative involvement of each stakeholder in the actual implementation of SIWES is depicted by the distance of the stakeholder from the centre of the circle in Figure 4b.


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