THE ROLE OF INDUSTRY BASED SUPERVISORS IN IMPLEMENTING SCHOOL – INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Umar Kwami Adamu

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The paper, tries to explain the concept of school-industry partnership. It went further to show the roles of industry based on supervisors in implementing school-industry partnership in technical education. It also states some specific problems facing school-industry partnership in technical education in Nigeria like exponential rise/increase in number of courses, institutions and students involved, reduction in the number of placement opportunities, inadequate funding among other things.  Based on these problems identified, the paper suggested some possible solutions such as increase in the number of stakeholders, implementation of SIWES rules and regulations, attracting partnership from private sectors to solve the problems of funding to mention but a few.


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