Abstract

The role of higher education in preparing youth for labour market is becoming more challenging in the modern society. The effort of higher education in producing relevant and skillful graduates to meet the needs and demand of modern world labour market is a great task for education management. This paper is a review of related literature; it also employed observation coupled with experience. This paper examines youth labour market and; the status of higher education graduates employment, issues and challenges facing higher education, the role of higher education and the strategies of managing higher education to enhance relevance of courses and to alleviate the problem of unemployment. It was concluded that management of education desires relevant curriculum and designing of employable causes to meet the reality of education in modern world. It was however recommended that; the employers of labour and higher education should collaborate and explore the development of employable courses. It was also recommended that higher education should focus on developing students for high skilled technology and that internship should be part of educational experience so as to enhance employment.