The neglect of technical and vocational
may have contributed to the high unemployment and rising poverty among the
youth, because many of them lack the basic job skills. They are struggling with
the challenges of acquiring “ employ-ability” skills because the society is
focused mostly on formal university education. But investment in skill training
and trade schools is a worthwhile social investment. The graduates would become
small business owners and employer of labour, this is the case in many societies where small businesses are the highest employers of labour. High
schools students in Nigerian should be made to gain
knowledge of workplace
culture and values along with general education competency. This would provide
them a variety of skills to manage small-scale businesses and to gain
employment after graduation. The current social and economic changes in the
world have altered the conditions and structure of employment and employers now
require their employees to poses some technical skills. Those who could not go
beyond elementary school (high school/university graduates who lack job skills)
are facing enormous challenges because they are unqualified to secure a decent
job.
Many of those who dropped out of school and those who
managed to pass through lack the skills to complete in the rather weak economy
and fight labour market. Therefore they lite4r around from down to desk while
battling with crushing unemployment. However, the government could improve their
sordid state by creating jobs increase found for vocational and technical
education from where they could acquire some employ not only themselves that
others because usuful citizens is the society. Vocational education is
desipired to offer training to improve individuals’ general proficiency,
especially in relation to their present or future occupations. Therefore the
provision of vocational and technical education in secondary and post secondary
schools will have a lowly history of reducing or completely eradicating
unemployment of the learning school graduates who will be gainfully employment
with a well trained technicians will don’t have the need to go to neigbouring
countries for coyeteant hand to carryout our masinary/bricking, electrical
welding, tilling works etc. The
half baked technicals have caused more harm than good, to a better trained
technical has grater employability in and outside the country until to saving
of our foreign exchange. To stability the society.
