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Director’s Profile<\/h4><\/span><\/div>
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Vision<\/h4><\/span><\/div>
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To transform the NUS into a sustainable entrepreneurial University System.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mission<\/h4><\/span><\/div>
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To partner with stakeholders to support skills development and entrepreneurship for Nigerian
Universities by creating a network of interactions towards creativity and innovation for national
development.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mandate & Functions<\/h4><\/span><\/div>
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Mandate & Functions<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

i. To encourage strong collaborative ties between academia and Industry in the area of
skilling and entrepreneurship towards creating sustainable opportunities for creativity and
innovation in Nigerian Universities;
ii. To promote the entrepreneurial university concept and foster student internship
programmes that guarantee the acquisition of specific sectorial skills for employability;
iii. To map and conduct periodic labour market survey to determine the required skills for
employability in the economy;
iv. To engage with corporate bodies; Banks, Telecommunication, etc to sponsor and brand
incubation centres as part of the entrepreneurship study centres in Nigerian Universities;
v. To facilitate the engagement with CBN, BOI, DBN, BOA, TETfund etc towards aligning the
various graduate SME loan schemes with the university entrepreneurship programmes; and
vi. To facilitate University \u2013 Industry partnerships in the areas of curriculum development and
review to embed entrepreneurship training and skills developments.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdulsalamdemo.udesignlimited.com\/nuc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}