National Employment Training Scheme (NETS)

Registration for the examinations into the National Employment Training Scheme has kicked off.

The objectives of the National Employment Training Scheme include but are not limited to the following:

• Creating competent local content for all sectors of the Nigerian economy;
• Reduce youths restiveness through the provision of functional skill sets acquired during training and facilitating the placement into firms after training;
• Affording Nigerians the same world class training obtainable anywhere in the world at no cost to the beneficiaries;
• Improving technological competence of Nigerians through the acquisition of skills that are directly required in the workplace;
• Creating a pool of qualified Nigerians who have the skills necessary to ‘hit the ground running’ upon employment;
• Reduce the overheads incurred in training new intakes by companies thereby encouraging companies to employ more Nigerian school leavers;
• Provide employment for Nigerians thereby reducing unemployment – a key Millennium Development Goal and critical in the present administrations 7 point agenda.

Visit www.netsnetnigeria.org for more information.