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Vocational Education and Training- Nigerian FG’s commitment to Education for All

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:18 PM PST

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has emerged as one of the most effective human resource development strategies that Nigeria and other African countries need to embrace so as to train and modernize the technical workforce for industrialization and national development. Vocational education and training is an essential part of development for any nation to grow economically. Most Nigerian youths have, before now, been of the idea that traditional four-five year university degree is the only essential tool needed for self empowerment. That idea is gradually being addresses, as more and more post-secondary students and even graduates seeks to embrace vocational education and skill acquisition as the key to deal with unemployment and unholy dependence on job. You can easy point to one or two university graduates who dropped their academic qualification to pursue their vocation-oriented passion. Vocational education is an important part of the education systems in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland and one element of the German model. For example, in Germany a law (the Berufsausbildungsgesetz) was passed in 1969 which regulated and unified the vocational training system and codified the shared responsibility of the state, the unions, associations and chambers of trade and industry. The system [...]

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