University is all fun and games until you graduate and realise you can no longer survive on your parents’ financial help for they feel they have already played their part and it is now your time to fend for yourself.
In a country that is faced with the number of graduates way higher than the available jobs (over 4000 graduated from Makerere University last month), fresh graduates find themselves in between a hard place and a rock, and most of them get a taste of what they call a hard knock life, with some of them not knowing what exactly to do after university.
It is because of this that these graduates have taken to the streets of Kampala with placards asking “What’s next?”, in hope of getting some form of advice and direction for what they have to do after university.
This has sparked debate on social media with different people expressing their feelings about our education system that allegedly trains job seekers instead of job creators, and others have taken the time to give the graduates some advice in pursuit of trying to answer the question, what’s next?
Now that the graduates have done this, we also ask, what’s next?