The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Mr. Usman Dutse, has called on the Federal Government to give more attention to Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) in tertiary institutions.
Dutse, who made this call on Wednesday in Lagos, said that funding challenges and inadequate policy framework were affecting the implementation of TVET in schools.
He also said challenges in the area of technical education had contributed to the high level of unemployment in the country.
According to him, it is only through diversification and application of appropriate technical skills that the nation’s economy can be diversified and internalised.
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The union leader urged the government to commit more resources to technical education.
He observed that low enrolment of students in polytechnics and colleges of technology had affected technical education and production of skilled manpower.
It would be recalled that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, at a national workshop on technical and vocational training in Nigeria, had reiterated the federal government’s resolve to place emphasis on technical education in order to build the requisite human capital base for a competitive economy. (NAN)
