Vocational and Technical Education Journal

The study focused on improving policy activities of school-industry collaboration to ensure skill acquisition for sustainable development in Nigeria TVET system. A descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. Two research questions and null hypotheses guided the study. The population for the study was 72. There was no sampling, the entire population was studied and structured questionnaire consisting of 30 items was used for collecting data from the respondents. The instrument was validated by three experts, Cronbach alpha method was used to determine the reliability of instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.74. the 72 copies of the instrument were administered to the respondents by the researchers and research assistants on one to one basis while the instrument were analyzed using mean to answer the research questions while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05 level significance and degree of freedom with the help of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS version 20). The study found that the contents of industrial practice policy and administration link strategies that should exist in collaboration with schools and industries to ensure skill acquisition for sustainable development of TVET system and recommend among other that there should be revaluing in the policy initiatives of school-industry collaboration for sustainable development of TVET system in Nigeria.

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