Innovation specialist tips students on employability
Mar 06, 2017
Kibuuka blamed some students and graduates who became apathetic and blamed unemployment on the education system, arguing that many other people were prospering with the same education system
A specialist in human performance systems, Ambrose Kibuuka on Saturday (March 4) stunned students when he predicted that there would be no jobs for professional graduates in the next 50 years. Kibuuka surprised the students further when he told them that formal education contributed only 20% of what they needed to succeed in life.
“Formal education may earn you a job, but it is those things that you teach yourself that will build for you a prosperous career. The most successful people that the world has known have not gone to the university. This provides proof that the biggest challenge of our days is not lack of jobs, but our failure to think creatively,” Kibuuka said.
Students from St Joseph's SSS, Nsambya surfing the internet during their visit to Uganda Martyrs' University, Nkozi on February 4
“Stop expecting white-collar jobs because the same jobs will not be there in the next 50 years! Technology is changing things very swiftly and uncontrollably. I am certain that in the next five decades, there will be no banks. Governments are now embracing digital currency. Jobs are already being given away to machines!”
Kibuuka was delivering a career-guidance talk at Uganda Martyrs’ University, Nkozi (UMU). The talk was one of the activities of the university’s open day. It was on the theme: Nurturing Youth for Employability and Wealth Creation: A role of Higher Education Institutions. The event was attended by a massive congregation of students from schools like King’s College Budo, Mount St. Mary’s Namagunga, St. Joseph’s SSS, Nsambya, St. Joseph’s SSS, Naggalama, St. Mary’s College Kisubi, Blessed Sacrament Kimanya, St. Charles Lwanga Kasasa, etc.
Kibuuka blamed some students and graduates who became apathetic and blamed unemployment on the education system, arguing that many other people were prospering with the same education system. He thus urged the students to develop an entrepreneurial mind that would enable them to create lucrative jobs for themselves. He further assured them that all the courses had an entrepreneurial interpretation, which was why no course should be deemed to be inferior.
Kibuka said that the 21st century was a century of young people, because the most powerful innovations had been brought about by young people below 35 years. He later advised the students to develop a culture of reading books, to keep themselves abreast with contemporary development.
The Vice-Chancellor of UMU, Prof. John Christom Maviiri asked the students to reduce the time they were spending on the social media. He advised them to use the internet productively, to generate knowledge.
A medical don examining the blood-pressure of Dalphine Nakamya, a student of Naggalama SSS.
Further to the talk, the visiting students also toured an academic/cultural exhibition that was organized by the students of UMU.