FORMER Smart Partnership Head of Secretariat Martin Dlamini says the existence of Limkokwing University was a result of a dialogue between His Majesty King Mswati III and Tan Sri Dato Sri Paduka Dr. Limkokwing.
FORMER Smart Partnership Head of Secretariat Martin Dlamini says the existence of Limkokwing University was a result of a dialogue between His Majesty King Mswati III and Tan Sri Dato Sri Paduka Dr. Limkokwing.
Dlamini, who is now Times of Swaziland Managing Editor, was speaking as industry advisor during the launch of the university’s LEAP programme. He appreciated the coming into being of the institution as it was key to changing many Swazi lives.
Limkokwing University invited industry advisors who were going to support the LEAP programme in an effort to enhance and challenge the minds of young people to become better in the trades they have studied for. He said the university was one of the few industry-led universities with a strategy to link industry and government to the university as channels for students to work on actual industry or government projects.
“Such allows industry projects to be brought on campus and injected into the teaching curriculum. This therefore annotates that as industry advisors we have the opportunity to be really involved in crafting our businesses the way we really want them to be;’ he said.
Dlamini said that was one of the key reasons why the institution’s students would be the most employable graduates in Swaziland is because with their industry training, they would move into actual employment and starting their own businesses with confidence.
About 840 students will return to the campus next week to begin the final stage of their education. Dlamini also revealed that the high speed technology, for which the Limkokwing graduates were trained, could send high resolution images from Botswana to America or Japan in seconds and have the creative work evaluated quickly, so that business can be conducted efficiently on a global scale. Such a design will produce entrepreneurs and employees who will play a key role in transforming Swaziland into an innovative economy hopefully by 2022, said Dlamini.
