The management of Castingcrown Company (3C) has set machines in motion to create the skills of at least 10, 0000 students and young experts in several disciplines at 20 selected universities in the country.
This note gave Dr. Gbolahan Pearl Oyelakin; At the weekend he spoke to the train-the-trainer program for employees at the University of Lagos (Unilag) in Lagos.
Oyelakin, who is a certified project manager and sustainability expert for the United Nations, justifies the need to acquire and form the skill. World overall.
According to him, the Casting Crown Company in conjunction with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Lagos presents a training program for employees of the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Environmental Sciences.
This is a critical step for the update of 10,000 students at selected Nigerian universities with project management skills, Green Building Edge certification and sustainability management skills as well as skills to model information models for the next five years, he said.
“We have a vision and that should enable 10,000 students and young specialists in the next five years. That is our goal. We would like to enable you with project management skills, creating skills to model information models and sustainability tools. “
Oyelakin continued: “The reason for it is that we have found that the most students in professional industry, when they come out as a young specialist to practice specialists, do not normally have what it takes to solve problems. I'm now talking about evil problems. Based on that time on campus, it is good for you to acquire skills that enable you to be problem solvers in the industry. We have found that critical skills that you have to acquire for you include problems solving project management and creating instruments for information modeling. And of course, because we also have to advance the United Nations agenda in reducing the effects of climate change, we also include sustainable measures into them. And we have adopted the EDGE program as a sustainability instrument with which we will initiate the students to orientate them to environmental behavior that they have to acquire when practicing.
“We depicted 20 universities and Unilag will be the first here in Nigeria. So we will work. And what that means is that we have a quota of 2,500 for each of these universities, you know that has increased to the actual amount that we have an impact on ourselves in order to have an impact on the students. And what this means is in the next five years, we will disturb a new generation of equipped and industry -friendly, finished, finished professionals, young experts who are bothering the way things are done in the industry and facilitate the project And ensure new flows of value that are delivered in the industry. ”
Oyelakin, who said in one of four faculties who were familiar with Edge project across the country, admitted that there is actually a gap in the room.
“We have Edge experts and we have Edge testers and we have Edge faculties. So I said all over Nigeria, at the faculty level, we are only four and that's why I decided to take off with my team so that we can equip students because it is better to catch them young. So Edge has a program for students, and that is the design for greater efficiency. So it is also a way to grow for you when you leave the campus and start practicing and now becoming Edge experts like me. So I would like to catch them directly from the campus before moving to the industry. ”
With regard to the modalities, his team would work with partners. “For example, we will work with the project management institute. We will work with the World Bank International Finance Corporation (IFC) because you own the program itself. So we will work with some other BIM companies such as Microsoft, Oracle. So we speak out to achieve. We will reach these organizations to work with us, Microsoft, to work with us to equip these people. So yes, we are open to support, but this is delivered to the students for free while preparing them for the exam. ”
The duo of Profs Modupe Moronke-Omirin, Dean of Environmental Sciences, and Samson Adeosun, Dean Faculty of Engineering, admitted that the duo of Profs Moronke-Omirin, both at the University of Lagos, interrupted the skills of students and lecturers alike they were made globally competitive.
Prof. Omirin released the first Salvo: “We speak of being a future university and training our students in order to also have the necessary skills and the ability to take part in the world. The training, which we somehow opened, have opened our Vista to see all the possibilities there is. And I am very impressed by what Casting crowns did really relevant in the world.
Prof. Adeosun echoed similar feelings, said the training should bring in the skills of project management. “Regardless of the project, you have to think that it should reduce the climate effects. We know that the problem of climate change is now widespread. The problem of climate effect has to do with what we do, the project we carry out, the effects on the environment and the consequences for the climate and the people in the nation. If you have this source key from project management, this improves your global competitiveness. You will not be a local person, you will become an international person. ”