Nigeria
as a developing national require that adequate engineering technicians
and service arraying or artisan are produce who can provide leadership in respective chosen occupations to meet up with
economic needs of the country (SOCIETY)
Okoro (1993) also described vocational education as any
form of education whose primary purpose is to
prefer persons for employment.
Vocational institutions training should five them the requisite training for
competence in specific occupations. Vocational education seal aim is to provide them with necessary silks.
Knowledge, values, and altitudes for effective employment in
specific occupations and successful works in various
fields. It assures that the choice of an occupation has been made and that
appropriate training is needed to enable the individual enter and advance in his or her chosen occupation.
The central purpose of vocational
education is to get people into jobs requiring specialized all domain
training (cogntius affective and
psychomotor) .
Vocational education is actually expensive because of the required tooks, equipment and materials.
These are important part of the training process needs,
0 in
order to avoid wastage of resources, candidates or vocational education should be carefully
selected to ensure tht they have the interst and aptitude to benefit from the trainding
(see prosser 1940 principles) only those who are genuinely interested in
entering the occupation should be considered for training .
expensive vocational education training
of students who eventually are unable to
obt employment because the society does not need the skills they possess, is wasteful and
should be considered. The establishment of vocational education programme
therefore should be based on needs, the need of the country, of the community
along with the need of the individual citizens
the six major occupational areas of vocational education: are
i.
trade
: industrial education viz elect/electronic tech , need
ii.
business
of office education
iii.
vocational
agriculture of agric education
iv.
home
economics education
v.
health occupation education or physical health
(human kinetic education)
vi.
Distributive education – marketing |(handwork
) courses in each of the above
occupational areas can be commenced and
offered at secondary, tech college of post –secondary ie tertiary level.