Limkokwing Swaziland has 700 readily available students ready to be injected in almost all business sectors in the country, management has said.

This is courtesy of the LEAP programme which was launched on Wednesday last week. LEAP is an acronym for the Limkokwing Entrepreneurship Acceleration Platform. The students will start their programme on August 13, 2013.

According to Limkokwing Swaziland’s Regional Director, Corporate, Industry and Media Relations, Mercy Rabaone Thebe, the LEAP internship programme allows industry projects to be brought on campus and injected into the teaching curriculum.

She said the programme was designed to enhance the spirit of enterprise among Limkokwing’s final year students. She added that the programme’s intention is to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurs among graduates so that they think beyond employability and embrace entrepreneurship, which will in turn create jobs for others.

“As a university, we have come to realise and appreciate that events of this nature are imperative as they will help forge partnerships between the university and the corporate fraternity in Swaziland. Together we have a responsibility to the communities we operate and live in, and it is through our partnerships that our communities can appreciate our existence and recognise us as part of them. It is therefore for this reason that we are gathered here with the hope to create positive platforms of good partnership and collaborations,” Thebe said.

She said the 700 students will showcase the capabilities that the university has equipped them with over the last three year, while 100 will begin the LEAP in-house programme.

“These techno savvy individuals will be the first to complete a three-year cycle of education which will be rounded off with practical industry training otherwise known as LEAP,” she said.

She further explained that the programmes has proven successful in turning graduates into entrepreneurs, adding that they are confident that a similar development will take place here in Swaziland with the support and guidance of various companies in different sectors of the economy.