http://www.newsportng.com.ng Hope Builders Foundation for Entrepreneurial Education, (HBFEE) has said that their first batch students of the Master of Business Administration, (MBA) will be graduating in October this year.
The Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) Hope Builders Foundation for Entrepreneurial Education, Dr. Mathias Yashim, disclosed this during a coffee chat held in Kaduna on Thursday, said the students have gone through rigorous trainings and are set to impact their world.
According to Mathias, the MBA program runs through the period of six to twelve months, adding that the students were admitted across various lines of interest haven met the screening requirements for the professional course.
He noted that the foundation is partnering government agencies like the Industrial Training Fund, (ITF) National Directorate of Employment, (NDE) including Labour and Productivity, who would in turn offer the students certificate upon successful completion of the program so they can have something that is heavy and unique with them.
Mathias, equally stressed that the MBA program is purely a professional program for people who are doing good, giving out solution to challenges of humanity, and solving problems of the society and they go through classes Within the space of six to twelve months and then go out with MBA professionals in their chosen field.
He reiterated that, “this is the first set here and we choose to bring in our partners for them to interact with the students so the world can get to know what we do here.
“It’s such a special program because these people are working. Before you are admitted here, it is expected that you have a project or venture that is legal, a website that we can see and verify your claims, it is expected that we can track you on social media handles to ensure you are truly doing what you claim, and then you come in here with the mindset to accelerate and to expand that venture and thereafter, we work with you based on your purpose and ambition.
“Our major assignment is to ensure that you know what you want to achieve, what will it take you to expand and after that, we hold you by the hand and work with you to ensure that you achieve that thing and making it global, that is when we now see that you are ready to graduate.
“So coming in here again, it’s not an academic program where people compete but here, we compliment ourselves. We help, guide and support ourselves. So it’s a ‘we-win’ thing because everybody is a master in his own field. All that we do is the principle of acceleration and we give it out to them.
“On the fees, yes we know that the program is a little bit expensive but we also gives out scholarship to all our students up to 85% of the complete school fees. Some gets up to 90% and some gets up to 95% all that we have in mind is that money should not stop anyone from expanding his or her own venture.
Speaking with Sister agencies of the Foundation, the Country Director Global Peace Foundation Nigeria, (GPFN) Rev. John Joseph Hayab, said the program organized by Hope Builders Foundation is apt and should be encouraged.
Hayab lamented that a lot of graduates are roaming about with degree certificate but lack the technical know-how to utilize them, advocating that skills be placed above school acquired degrees and it’s equivalents.
In the same vein, the Kaduna State Coordinator, Justice, Development and Peace Caritas, (JDPC) Rev. Fr. Joshua Achir, said government has a lot of roles to play in ensuring that the high level of unemployment that has resulted to breakdown of law and order on daily basis is tackled.
Achir said the people must be deliberate about skills as major way to fight the rapid population growth, while calling on government at all levels to provide an enabling environment for entrepreneurship to thrive and also support non governmental organizations so they can be able to take the youths and adults out of street.
