Vocational and Technical Education Journal

Technical Vocational education and Training (TVET) offers the training of technical skilled personnel for the purposes of initiating, facilitating and implementing the technological development of a people or Nation. It also creates the basic awareness of technological literacy to youths and women. In South-South Nigeria, the training of youths and women has witnessed formidable challenges ranging from poor funding to inadequate facilities, non-availability of adequate manpower, poor staff training and retention profiles, poor facilities, non-keeping Pace with technological advancement, defective curricula, poorly equipped laboratories, poorly monitoring standards, wrong mind-set about TVET etc. This paper intends to examine the progress made in TVET education despite the numerous challenges and suggest that government should give more attention to TVET programmes, increase funding of TVET sector and the fund should be directed toward research and development, acquisition of appropriate and up-to-date equipment and tools, general maintenance and management of TVET institutions.

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