Dr Olushola Odusanya, Director-General, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) has affirmed the centre’s commitment to revamp interest in vocational education in the country.
Odusanya disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.
He said that the move was crucial, considering that 70 per cent of job opportunities abound in vocational training and need to be tapped.
He explained that a reliable way of infusing knowledge into the informal sector was to focus on vocational training.
He, however, said that revamping interest in vocational education called for right investments and issuance of quality certificates as well as quality accreditation.
He disclosed that NACETEM, a Certiport training and certification centre, had structured training in which certificates were offered.
‘These certification schemes are now for vocationally trained people and their numbers are also very large, probably larger than other trainees.
‘These are people required i
n the economy and we feel this would be of particular interest to politicians because they need to empower their voting population,’ Odusanya said.
The NACETEM boss explained that the Academy which was formed in partnership with a private firm was a huge Learning Management System, which provided for the training, thereby allowing several people to come on board.
He restated that acquisition of vocational skills was quite important, especially to people who were not necessarily educated but required some form of skills.
He reiterated that vocational training encompassed all of these.
Source: News Agency of Nigeria