NYSC Equips PRS Officers With Critical Thinking Techniques

The National Youth Service Corps has during a training equipped its Planning, Research and Statistics (PRS) Schedule Officers with new operational techniques to enable them deploy critical thinking skills in planning, monitoring and evaluation of the Scheme's programmes.

Myschoolnews gathered the training workshop with the theme; "The Application of Critical Thinking in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of NYSC Programmes" was declared open by the Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed. 

Represented by the Director, PRS, Alhaji (Dr) Ahmed Wada Ikaka, the DG stated that this year’s theme reflects Management's determination to enhance the capacity of officers with refined skills for effective planning, research, data collation and analysis of the Scheme's programmes.

"As PRS Officers, you are the custodians of the Scheme's records, library and archival resources in your Secretariats, which serve as the hub for our intellectual property as well as the Think Tank of the Scheme. 

You must, therefore guard our facilities with all sense of responsibility and patriotism as the first point of contact for researchers and other stakeholders within and outside the country", he declared. 

Earlier in his welcome address, the Representative of Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, Mr Isa Wana emphasized that the Workshop serves as an avenue for peer review whose outcome would be channeled towards more innovations for enhanced NYSC Programmes. 

A Development Economist, Prof Salihu Habibu Mohammed from Nasarawa State University delivered a lecture on "Critical Thinking Approach to Organisational management" to the workshop participants.

Other resource persons who presented evidence-based lectures included NYSC Deputy Director (Monitoring and Evaluation) Malam Isa Wana, Deputy Director, Research and Library, Mr Stephen Dewan and Deputy Director, Policy and Planning, Alhaji Abdul Suleiman.