1. LINDELA R. NDLOVU NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, ZIMBABWE

2. OUTLINE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION SKILLS PROFILES WHAT UNIVERSITIES ARE DOING CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION WHAT DEFINES EMPLOYABILITY? JOB AVAILABILITY JOB CREATION SKILLS MATCH WHICH SKILLS? TECHNICAL/SUBJECT SPECIFIC GENERIC TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ENTREPRENEURIAL

4. INTRODUCTION 2 IS H E SECTOR DOING ENOUGH? CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT REWARD SYSTEM INDUSTRY LINKS/PARTNERSHIPS

5. TECHNICAL/SUBJECT SPECIFIC SKILLS MANY UNIVERSITIES COVER THESE ADEQUATELY REGULAR CURRICULUM REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING INVOLVEMENT OF INDUSTRY PERSONNEL COST CONSTRAINTS IN SOME PROGRAMMES

6. GENERIC SKILLS 1 ANALYSIS & SYNTHESIS PROBLEM SOLVING COMMUNICATION (VERBAL & WRITTEN) TEAM WORKING

7. GENERIC SKILLS 2 INTERPERSONAL SKILLS IT & INFORMATION LITERACY NUMERACY INITIATIVE

8. TWENTY-FIRST SKILLS FOREIGN LANGUAGE(S) SKILLS IN ADDITION TO MOTHER LANGUAGE COSMOPOLITANISM INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY DEALING WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD LEARNING HOW TO LEARN PERVASIVENESS OF TECHNOLOGY

9. ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION “INTELLIGENT BORROWING” ADOPTION & ADAPTATION PERSONAL MASTERY NETWORKING

10. EXAMPLES OF WHAT UNIVERSITIES ARE DOING TIME IN INDUSTRY AS INTEGRAL PART OF DEGREE SANDWICH ATTACHMENT ENTREPRENEURIAL COURSES/PROGRAMS RUNNING BUSINESSES SKILLS TRAINING WORK RELATED PROGRAMS

11. AFRICA SPECIFIC ISSUES JOB CREATION ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENTS NOT COPPING PRIVATE SECTOR UNDERDEVELOPED GRADUATES SEEN AS POTENTIAL CREATORS OF EMPLOYMENT NEED TO CHANGE FROM JOB-SEEKING MINDSET & INCULCATE JOB CREATION SKILLS FINANCING START UPS?

12. ARE UNIVERSITIES DOING ENOUGH ARE JOB RELATED SKILLS ADEQUATELY ASSESSED? IS THE REWARD SYSTEM ENCOURAGING INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO EMPLOYABILITY? DOES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS THAT ADDRESS STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY GET PRIORITY?

13. CONCLUSIONS SOME UNIVERSITIES HAVE ADOPTED INNOVATIVE APPROACHES NEED TO SHARE THESE MORE OTHERS NOT SO WELL POOR INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY LINKS UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMIC SECTOR NEED TO DEVELOP JOB-CREATORS NOT SEEKERS!