Technical Education And Its Challenges In Nigerian Tertiary Institutions: The Way Forward

YARO Ahmed Sulaiman, CHELEDI Abdulmumini Aliyu

Abstract


It is obvious that the technical education deals with the training of technical personnel for the purposes of initiating, facilitating and implementing the technological development of a nation and also to create the basic awareness of technological literacy to our youths. In Nigeria, the training of technical personnel has witnessed formidable challenges ranging from poor funding to inadequate facilities both quantitatively and qualitatively, non-availability of adequate human resources, brain drain and poor staff training and retention profiles. Others include weak university/industry partnership, defective curricula, traditional approach to teaching, poorly equipped laboratories, poorly monitoring standards for the training of prospective technologists and an inadequate ICT environment. This paper critically, examined how Nigeria has not attained the desired standard of technological literacy and suggests ways of improving the teaching and learning of technical education programme with enhanced enthusiasm and vibrancy.


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