According to African Economic Outlook, Africa has emerged as one of the fastest growing regions in the world, but the phenomenon of jobless growth combined with the world’s youngest population threatens progress of African countries. In order to overcome this challenge, it is essential that Africa invests in technical and engineering education that makes its youth employable and productive.
Customized Public-Private-Institute partnership can go a long way in offering engineering software training to a large number of employed and unemployed people and thus, address the specific innovation and productivity needs of the industries in manufacturing, agriculture, and services sector.
CAD Skills for Competitiveness
Africa has a well established industry base in oil and gas, power, telecoms, and is genuinely aspiring to create a niche for itself in emerging sectors such as information and communication technology services and biotechnology.
To be competitive, it has to create people with skills to take part in the entire value chain: from conception to design to manufacturing, and beyond. Here CAD education assumes significance, because it is heavily used in all aspects of industrial and organizational functions in the country’s established and emerging sectors.
CAD skills guarantee economic competitiveness because it:
1. Is central to all stages of production – from concept design to mass production
2. Aids sustainable technology
3. Enables innovation and ensures shortened delivery time
4. Conserves valuable resources such as time, money and material
5. Ensures employability anywhere in the world
6. Self-Employment and Women empowerment
Since training in engineering software education with managerial inputs, can vastly improve the country’s talent pool that would in turn help industries innovate and boost their competitiveness, the country should invest in employability education that can identify, address and bridge the skill gaps.
Employability Education, the Missing Link
This story is from the January 2017 edition of The Times Of Africa.
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