In an effort to boost the below par economic situation, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology said it will implement the Limkokwing Entrepreneurship Acceleration Platform (LEAP).

According to the University’s head of Communications and Marketing Thato Moruti, the LEAP is a specially designed programme, held with high esteem because it is tailor made to suit the pressing needs of the economy of Swaziland.

He said the programme was divided in two streams, external and internal placement of the Associate degree programme students. Moruti said in a few months, the university will be releasing its first cohort of 800 students, who will be going for their internship in the Swazi corporate industry.

He said, as revealed by the Prime Minister, Swaziland needed youth with entrepreneurial minds, stating that they have also come up with such a programme as they believe that the students would immensely contribute to the rejuvenation of the country.

“The university is established in such a way that our classrooms are set up as incubation units to develop new businesses that are natural extension to the university,” he said.

He said he made sure the students were able to apply their skills in practical ways, and in practise, picked up entrepreneurial capabilities, and these ideas will be franchised to interested students.

Being a creative university, he said they were always searching for novel ways to make learning more meaningful to their students and to the economies of the countries they were in.

He stated that they took the non-traditional approach to bring fresh thinking to the whole fresh education sphere by recognising the talents that the students have. Moruti further mentioned that there was a need for universities to collaborate with different industry stakeholders. Speaking at the National Poetry Day celebration, which was held at the institute premises, he said such a celebration was a collaboration project with local Rooted Soulz, an organisation led by young people who are passionate about the spoken word and wanted to develop talent.

Moruti said just like the University’s founder, Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing, he believed that a nation’s most precious and most powerful resource was its people. He said empowering young people will be tantamount to opening numerous possibilities.