Entebbe — Nkumba University has started an entrepreneurship centre to enrich its students with job creating skills and reduce unemployment.

Speaking at the university's 56 anniversary celebrations on February 9, Prof. Sentenza Kajubi, the vice chancellor, said the high unemployment rate in the country is attributed to graduates who become job seekers.

"Most universities produce jobseekers and why should we also produce graduates who will end on streets?" he said.

He said many foreign investors have earned a living through starting small-scale businesses that would have been done by Ugandans, who are not equipped with entrepreneurial skills.

He said the centre shall have a director to avail students with practical skills to come out as job creators.

"We have been teaching entrepreneurship as a course unit but not having it separate to enrich students with skills," he said.

He urged other universities to emulate Nkumba's example and to reduce on the problem of unemployment that is rampant among the youth.

Speaking at the same function, Dr Gordon Wavamunno of Spear Motors Group of Companies urged the universities to take students for industrial training.

"We get graduates and send them away because they can't cope up with the company standards," he said, adding that he would create a fund to help young entrepreneurs.

Nkumba started as kindergarten in 1956 and has now become a Charter university.