PCF10 Sub-theme: Fostering Lifelong Learning // It is an incontrovertible fact that Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) has become a platform for skills training programme and that the same forms part of the minimum academic standards in the various diploma and degree programmes for Nigerian Polytechnics and Universities. Furthermore, the establishment of the scheme is part of the efforts to bridge the existing gap between theory and practical science and technology as well as other professional educational programmes in the Nigerian tertiary institutions. This study seeks to examine the management and operations of SIWES in terms of the policy thrust, management and operations of the scheme to bring about radical changes which would be beneficial to the trainees, tertiary institutions, employers of labour and the Nigerian nation as a whole. Appropriate recommendations were made that could assist the Directorate of SIWES in NOUN in particular and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria in general. // Paper ID 0544