RIIMS — RUFORUM

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African Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) face criticisms of producing low performing graduates unable to drive the agricultural innovation processes to revitalise agriculture, boost economic recovery, and accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The situation is largely attributed to graduates and lecturers having limited interaction with the labour market due to lacking effective administration and academic frameworks to open opportunities for learning practical lessons relevant to the needs of the labour market. Universities being vital to national innovation systems and the development of human resource, three universities in Kenya and Uganda have partnered with labour market actors to close this gap by deploying innovative interactive online technology networking platform. Networking will be facilitated to enable use of technology to change the way mentoring and learning take place by opening opportunities for institutional networking of Universities with a global pool of practicing professionals and the labour market. The approach is to jointly strengthen capacities in reforming graduate curricula, graduate training and education. This joint effort is being implemented with support from the European Union (EU) ACP-EU EDULINK II Project Grant Ref FED/2013/335-687 (Deploying Interactive On-line Networking Platform for Improving Quality and Relevance of African University Graduates to Labour Markets)

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Agricultural research Education Trade, marketing and distribution

Deploying interactive on-line networking platform for improving quality and relevance of African University graduates to labour markets

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