UGANDAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP MENTORS ENCOURAGE JOBLESS GRADUATES TO CREATE THEIR OWN JOBS
May 26th, 2015
In Uganda, recent graduates are learning a tough lesson: a university education is no guarantee of a job. More than half of people under 30 are without full-time employment, and the problem is particularly acute among degree holders. The country’s developing economy, still based largely on agriculture, is generating few highly skilled positions to offer the 40,000 university graduates each year. Uganda’s gross national income per head, according to the World Bank, is just USD600-a-year.The government’s strategy is to encourage newly minted degree holders to ...
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