Vocational and Technical Education Journal

This paper is focused on critical issues that impede on the quality of learning outcomes in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nigeria. Specifically, the paper explains the benefit derived from quality education, defined the meaning and importance of technical and vocational education and explains how technical and vocational education is linked to human capital theory that a nation needs to raise adequate workforce through education. The paper further explains the levels where technical and vocational education career can be offered in Nigeria institutions, the meaning of learning outcomes and how lack of quality learning outcomes has been a clog to the wheel of technical and vocational education in Nigeria. However some critical issues that impede the quality of learning outcome in technical and vocational education were highlighted, such issues include; in-adequate funding of technical and vocational education, in-adequate instructional facilities and in-effective utilization, Effective management of instructional facilities and leadership problems in technical and vocational education. A conclusion was drawn and some suggestions were made in order to attain quality learning outcome in technical and vocational education. The suggestions includes; The government should ensure that adequate fund is made available for technical and vocational education in Nigeria, adequate Instructional facilities should be made available in all occupational areas of technical and vocational education as this will ensure the quality of skills and competencies among others.

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