Technical Education Key To Lifting Nigeria Out of Poverty – NBTE Boss

The Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Professor Idris Bugaje, has emphasised that Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) represents Nigeria’s astir viable pathway retired of poverty.

Bugaje made this known portion speaking during the opening of a two-day capacity-building programme for TVET stakeholders successful Kano nether the Better Education for Africa’s Rise (BEAR III) task (2023–2027), organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO) with enactment from the Korean government.

Prof. Bugaji, represented by his method assistant, Dr Babangida Ali-baba,   underscored the captious relation of method acquisition successful nationalist economical development.

“The lone mode that we tin pb our state retired of poorness is by ensuring that acquisition is fixed what it deserves successful the economical centre of education,” the NBTE brag stated, highlighting the administration’s committedness to skills-based learning initiatives.

He added that NBTE has been astatine the forefront of digitising the Nigerian Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) and strengthening prime assurance processes crossed the nation’s method institutions – making it easier for institutions to comply with planetary standards.

In his invited address, the Head of the Abuja Office and UNESCO’s Representative to Nigeria, Mr Mendy Albert, represented by Mr Manish Joshi, said the programme builds connected a 10-week online people completed successful July, designed to heighten participants’ capableness to modernise vocational education.

He said TVET is simply a important catalyst for equipping young radical with the close skills, creating sustainable pathways for self-employment, and driving socio-economic development.

In her remarks, the Director of Technology and Science Education, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr Muhibat Adeleke Olodo, reported that much than 1 cardinal radical person enrolled nether a caller TVET framework, with national method colleges welcoming 15,000 students this month.

She explained that the reforms purpose to grow access, align curricula with labour marketplace needs, and boost employability among young people.