BENIN—THE Federal Government has charged tertiary institutions to adopt the National Vocational Qualification, NVQ, so as to train the manpower needs of the country in various sectors of the economy.
To stem the tide of mass failures in Senior Secondary School Certificate Educations, it directed secondary schools across the country to comply fully with the secondary school curriculum.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, at the 23rd convocation of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, disclosed that the inspectorate division of the Federal Ministry of Education would be strengthened to ensure compliance with secondary school curricula henceforth.
The minister, who was represented by Mrs Hilda Onyekwere, commended the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, for adopting the NVQ as a strategy for skills development, saying that the NBTE has been working with stakeholders in the Technical Vocation Education and Training, TVET, to institutionalize NVQs in the country and recently with “the Federal Ministries of Power, Works, Housing and Transport to formulate a National Skills Development Policy/Plan for Nigeria.
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