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From Idea to Reality: The GIPED Journey
In recent studies conducted by KPMG, only about 41.5% of Nigerian graduates were employed in jobs related to their field of study in 2022. This means that more than half of the graduates were either unemployed or employed in jobs outside their area of specialization.
From an entrepreneurial perspective, the extent to which graduates can put their degrees to use can vary depending on various factors such as their level of education, field of study, and personal qualities. Between 2016 and 2022, Kaduna Business School (KBS) worked with the Government of Kaduna State in Nigeria to move over 5000 graduates out of the unemployed space.
Through an innovation called KADSTEP, www.kadstep.com, the results were terrific. Graduates of the KADSTEP program could find their feet, and in several cases, access to finance was no longer an issue as they could see meaning in their university education.
KBS discovered that having a degree can provide graduates with the necessary basic knowledge and skills. But to start in life and put the discipline to create value, academic programmes must be enriched with a Graduate Innovation Programme for Enterprise Development (GIPED) coefficient. An enabler that the field of study can leverage for entrepreneurial purposes. Graduates with a combination of education, skills, and entrepreneurial acumen are likelier to experience an infection point that keys them into the economy as soon as they graduate.
To strengthen this latent advantage of GIPED, Kaduna Business School, the Malaysian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and other partnering institutes have created a global alliance to propagate the need for an Entrepreneurial component added to every discipline as an intrinsic component.
GIPED aims to build internal capacity for equipping graduates with an acumen for enterprise development within every academic discipline.
How GIPED Works
Create Level C Partnerships
The Global Alliance will identify specific institutions in the pilot phase to join the level C partnership framework or IMPLEMENTING INSTITUTIONS.
Train level B Partners “GIPED Deployment Experts"
The Level C partners will identify lecturers from selected departments that will undergo the GIPED Training of the Trainer, Facilitator and Coaching Certification program delivered by the Strategic Alliance in Nigeria, Malaysia, and Hungary. Successful lecturers become GIPED level B Partners, referred to as GIPED DEPLOYMENT EXPERTS -GDEs.
Launch GIPED in Level C Institutions
The GDEs will proceed to upgrade the training received by making the modules relevant to specific disciplines. For example, in an implementing institution, lecturers from Geology, History and Microbiology who complete the GDE certification will use the materials covered as a baseline for developing a Secondary curriculum contextualised for the discipline, which will be used for training the students in the departments.
Accordingly, a GDE in the Microbiology department will use GIPED training as the framework for introducing a new course referred to as Entrepreneurial Microbiology. All GDEs will do the same for their respective departments. Entrepreneurial History, Entrepreneurial Geology etc.
GIPED Program in Summary
The generic content will be delivered to the students directly with minor changes in examples they can relate with.
ICSS Standardized Entrepreneurial Training Programme
• Inspire
• Create
• Start
• Scale
Country Analysis
Generic Content
Strategic Foresight
The applied content will be delivered based on well-researched contextualisation of the modules in line with the current dynamics of the field of study.
The Entrepreneurial Intent of
(Field of Study)
Disruptive Innovation in
(Field of Study)
Applied Content
Sustainable Development Goals as it relates to
(Field of Study)
Road to Implementation
A
Objective: Identify and admit institutions as Level C partners for GIPED implementation.
B
GIPED Role:
Implementation institutions select lecturers from different faculties across the university to receive GIPED's "Training of the Trainer" certification. These lecturers will be known as Level B partners.
Objectives
- Attend the TOT and obtain the Specialisation Deployment certification (SDE)
- Configure the Curriculum and update workshop materials for their disciplines
- Step down the training / Build capacity of students
- Deploy GIPED in Level C Institutions
- Evaluate student’s End of the First Semester
- Evaluate students At Graduation
Follow-up Six Months After graduation
- Final Evaluation 1 year After graduation
- Final Report/Case for full implementation
- Submit a report on the successes and challenges.
Objectives:
- Work with the strategic alliance to identify the pilot disciplines that will receive the intervention
- Nominate the academics that will be level B partners and Deployment experts
- Give GIPED the full policy backing for its implementation within the institution
- Fund the training of the deployment experts
- Support the impact assessment project on the students one-year post-graduation and provide the data to GIPED.
C
The next step after the implementation institutions have nominated lecturers from various faculties across the university is to conduct training for them.
These lecturers will obtain the GIPED Training of the Trainer certification and will be referred to as Level B partners. The training program will equip them with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively teach and mentor students in entrepreneurial thinking and action.
The success of the GIPED program is heavily reliant on the effectiveness of these Level B partners, so the training process is a crucial component of the implementation process.
D
Level B partners proceed to implement giped in there various faculties within level C institutions.
GIPED's Training of the Trainers, Facilitators, and Coaches (TOTFC) curriculum is specifically designed to equip nominated lecturers from various faculties of implementing institutions with the necessary skills to integrate entrepreneurship into their respective disciplines. The lecturers undergo a comprehensive training program that enables them to redesign the curriculum and better prepare their students for real-world challenges.
This curriculum includes:
The I.C.S.S TOTFC
Entrepreneurial Intent TOTFC
SDGs TOTFC
Strategic Foresight TOTFC
Disruptive Innovation TOTFC
Country Analysis TOTFC
The curriculum to be delivered in implementing institutions (level C) is designed to introduce a new course in every department called "Entrepreneurial X", where X represents the specific department.
Example:
- In the Faculty of Medicine, the new course would be referred to as Entrepreneurial Medicine
- In the Faculty of Engineering, the new course would be referred to as Entrepreneurial Engineering
- In the Faculty of Geology, the new course would be referred to as Entrepreneurial Geology
- In the Faculty of Psychology, the new course would be referred to as Entrepreneurial Psychology
This would be the new course created by GIPED.