Gainful self-employment among tertiary education graduates in Uganda

Gaining insight in the challenges for gainful (self)-employment among tertiary education graduates in Uganda and how institutions can develop teaching and guidance programmes that enhance the graduates’ transition to the labour market.
Objectives of the study
1. To understand the labour market perceptions, experiences and expectations of students, lecturers and graduates as well as the challenges they face in their transition to gainful self-employment.
2. To develop new ways of preparing students that readies them to face the realities of the labour market that is not growing at pace of tertiary education graduates’ output.
3. To establish ingredients for educational institutions to develop a model of enhancing the transition to gainful self-employment.