Is education
at upper secondary and lower tertiary levels to prepare middle. Level personnel (technicians, middle
management etc), and at university level, to prepare engineers and
technologists for higher management position.
Technical education. Includes general education, theoretical scientific
and technical studies and related skill training. The component of technical education may
vary considerably depending on the type of personnel to be prepared and the
education level.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria national policy on
education (1977) define technical
education as that aspect of education
which leads to the acquisition of practical and applied skills well as basic
scientific knowledge. Five types of
technical education institutions out side the universities were enumerated: the pre-vocational and vocational schools at
port primary level, the technical
colleges, the polytechnics and colleges of technical
teacher education at post –secondary level.
The aims of technical education
were outline as follows:
1.
To
provide trained manpower in applied
science, technology commerce
particularly at sub professional grades.
2.
To
provide the technical knowledge and vocation skills necessary for
agriculture, industrial, commercial and economic development
3.
To
provide people who can apply scientific knowledge to improvement and solution
of environmental problems for the use convenience for man
4.
To give
an introduction to professional studies in engineering other
technologies
5.
To
give training and impart the necessary
skills leading production craftsmen,
technicians and other skilled personnel
who will enterprising and self –reliant , and
6.
To
enable our young men and woman to have an intelligent understating
of the increasing complexity of technology.
Thus, in Nigeria a uniform administrative structure of vocational and technical education has not been achieve. The
philosophy and objective of vocational education can be found in the general
philosophy and objective of secondary education secondary education in the
Nigeria context includes vocational and technical education .
Technical education was defined by the federal republic of Nigeria national policy on education as that aspect of education, which leads to
the acquisition of practical and applied skills as well as basis scientific knowledge.
The
vocational needs of Nigeria
required that an adequate number of engineering and science technicians be produced to meet its intermediate manpower needs however, the
curriculum is geared towards western culture and not to practical skills
One major deficiency in the Nigeria employment market is the weakness of the market information system
vocational guidance programmes in
Nigeria primary and secondary school can
be utilized to advise students on a tentative career choice.