Nigerian Varsities Deploy Ribara to Track Skills Formation, Boost Employability
Naija News • 1h ago
Funmi Ogundare
Tertiary institutions across Africa are beginning to experiment with Ribara, a digital employability platform designed to make visible how human capital is actually formed inside universities.
At a moment when graduates outnumber formal job openings in many African economies, several institutions, including Covenant University, Landmark University, Mountain Top University in Nigeria, Palm University College in Ghana, and Embu University, are exploring how the platform might help them measure and strengthen students’ readiness for the labour market.
Rather than relying on graduate surveys or anecdotal employer feedback, the system maps university courses against more than 80,000 structured job roles and their underlying task architectures. The aim is to identify where skil...