OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAMME (SIWES)
The Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)
is a skill training program, designed to expose and prepare student in
institutions of higher learning for the industrial work situation they are
likely to meet after graduation. The scheme is also meant to familiarize
students with work methods and exposed them to the needed experience in handling
such equipment and machinery that are not available in the educational
institutions. It is finance by the federal government and managed by the
Industrial Training Fund (ITF).
Employers of Labour are very important in the
effective running of this scheme. They are to absorb a large number of the
SIWES students in their various establishments to acquire the practical
training.
Students are normally attached to identified
industries or companies for a period of three to six months during the long holiday
between 200 level and 300 level, prior to this period, the SIWES officer in the
SIWES office of the university would have liaised with the various Industries
and companies and the ITF office.
In some cases, lecturers from the University pay
scheduled visits to the industries to supervise the student work. Each student
is given a SIWES Log Book, in these log
books are recorded the students
activities and experiences in industries, such logbooks have to be
countersigned by the student, the University SIWES supervisor and the
supervisor from the host industry or institution.
Table of Contents
Dedication page
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Acknowledgement page
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Cover Page
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Report Overview
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Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background
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1.2 Objectives
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1.3 Location and Brief History of
Establishment---------------------------------------------
1.4 Objective of
Establishment
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Organizational Structure (Including Organogram) ------------------------------------
1.6 The Various Department/Unit
in the Establishment ---------------------------------
Chapter Two: Works Actually
Carried Out
2.1 Week one to week twelve
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Chapter Three: Problems and
Experience Gained
3.1 Conclusion
and Problems/challenges------------------------------------------------3.2
Experience Gained
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Chapter Four: Summary and
Recommendations
4.1 Summary
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4.2 Recommendation
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Training is a key factor in enhancing the efÏciency and expertise of the
workforce. The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) program
prepares students for Labour Markets, and it has become an innovative
phenomenon in human resource development and training in Nigeria.
The library are categorize into four types which are the Public library,
School library, Academic library and Special or private library. My Student
Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) held at Industrial Training Fund
(ITF) library which is a special library, out of the four types of library we
have.
A special library can be seen as a library with special collections for
specific group of people for a specific purpose or goal to be achieved.
The Library Profession, like other professions is dynamic. This dynamism
is in response to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). With the
introduction of ICTs into the field of Library and Information Science (LIS),
it has become imperative that LIS practitioners possess the skill needed to
function effectively in an ICT environment.
No society can achieve meaningful progress without encouraging its youth
to acquire necessary practical skills. Such skills enable them to harness
available resources to meet the needs of society. It is against this BACKGROUND
that SIWES, otherwise referred to as Industrial Training (IT), was introduced
in Nigerian tertiary institutions. According to Oyedele (1990), the student
industrial work experience is an educational program in which students
participate in work activities while attending school. This work experience
program gives students the opportunity to be part of an actual work situation
outside the classroom.
The students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) was established
in 1973/1974 session, it commenced precisely in 1974 with the aim of making
education more relevant to bridge the yawning gap between the theory and
practices of engineering, technology, and science-related discipline in tertiary
institutions in Nigeria. Prior to the establishment of the scheme, there was a
growing concern among our industrialists that graduates of institutions of
higher learning lacked adequate practical knowledge preparatory for employment
in the Industries. It is against this backdrop that the rationale for
initiating and designing the scheme was hinged. Consequently, the scheme
affords students the opportunity of familiarizing and exposing themselves to
the needed experience in handling equipment and machinery that are usually not
available in their institutions.
SIWES is a cooperative industrial internship program that
involves institutions of higher learning, Industries, the federal government of
Nigeria, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Nigerian University Commission (NUC)
and NBTE/NCCE in Nigeria.
Student that participate in this work experience program include those
studying Library & Information Science, Engineering, Vocational,
Technological, and related courses in institutions of higher learning, SIWES
forms part of the approved minimum academic standards in the institutions. It’s
a core academic requirement carrying six (6) credit Units, this requirement
must be met by all students in Library and Information Science before
graduation.
1.2 Objectives
The specific objectives of SIWES were
summarized by the Federal government in its Gazette of April, 1978 as follows;
i.
To provide avenue for
students in institution of higher learning to acquire industrial skills and
experience in their course of study.
ii.
To provide students with an
opportunity to apply their knowledge in real work and practice, thereby
bridging the gap between theory and practice.
iii.
To make the transition from
school to the world of work easier and to enhance students contact for later
job placement.
iv.
To prepare students for the
work situation they are to meet after graduation.
v.
To expose students to work
methods and techniques in handling equipment and machinery that may not be
available in their institution.
vi.
To enlist and strengthen employer
involvement in the entire educational process of preparing university graduate
for employment in industry.
1.3 Location and Brief History of Establishment
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Library, Jos South local Government
Area, Headquarters ofÏce complex is located opposite Low-cost Housing Estate,
along Miango Road, before Wildlife Park, Jos, Plateau State.
About ITF Headquarters, Jos, Administrative Building.
Established in 1971, the Industrial Training Fund has operated
consistently and painstakingly within the context of its enabling laws Decree
47 of 1971 as Amended in the 2011 ITF ACT. The objective for which the Fund was
established has been pursued vigorously and efÏcaciously. In the four decades
of its existence, the ITF has not only raised training consciousness in the
economy, but has also helped in generating a corps of skilled indigenous
manpower which has been manning and managing various sectors of the national
economy.
ITF HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY
ITF Library was established in 1977 to provide quality and relevant
updated information on resources relating to training work force, as well as
Information relating to other departments in the organization, such as finance
and accounting, research and curriculum development, administration and human
resource development, procurement, resource inspectorate and compliance,
business training development, ICT, technical and vocational training, internet
audit, public affairs, service and anti-corruption, cooperate planning, legal
and field service department etc.
The ITF library consists of various volumes of Books, articles, Journals,
Serials, Maps etc. and an online research database called EBSCOHOST, the
database has a password which is meant only for ITF staff nationwide. The
Library also has Library automation software called EOS-web which is used for
automating the Library’s materials.
The library is well stocked by the institution its self
to cater for needs and use of information resources in the institution. The
library is a special library by its nature which functions and carters for
varieties needs of people of the institution where it situated regardless of
the different departments and unit in the institution.
1.4 Objectives of the Establishment
The purpose of the Act was to establish a Fund – The Industrial
Training Fund (ITF) to be utilized to promote and encourage the acquisition of
skills in industry or commerce in Nigeria with a view to generating a pool of
indigenous trained manpower sufÏcient to meet the needs of the economy.
Consequent upon the above stated mission, the following are the
objectives of ITF Library.
1.
To sensitize the
INSTITUTION on the need of information to their various needs.
2.
To provide information in
abundance to the institution or information to the door-steps of the different
department and unit in the institution.
3.
To make the people of the
community aware and compete with people outside the world.
4.
To evaluate and certify vocational
skills acquired by apprentices, craftsmen and technicians in collaboration with
relevant organizations.
5.
To make the ITF library be
socially incline to the institution.
1.5 Organizational Structure (Including
Organogram)
Any
Organization, private or government is established with an aim to achieve a set
goal. In order to achieve these set goals an organizational structure is
raised, an administrative machine is created and a management authority is
appointed. Therefore, the organization structure of INDUSTRAIL TRAINING FUND
(ITF) and the library is as follow which is represented in an Organogram.
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