REPOSITIONING TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ANDTRAINING FOR ENHANCED EMPLOYABLE SKILLS AS A PANACEA FOR SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been recognized as a tool for empowering individuals, especially youths for sustainable livelihood and social economic development. The paper focused on repositioning technical vocational education and training for enhanced employable skills as a panacea for security challenges in Nigeria. TVET can be attended by a substantially greater proportion of youths to alleviate the challenges of insecurities in the country . Hence, when youths are equipped with employable skills, they are likely to contribute to the overall development of the society at large. In this paper, the major challenges to Technical Vocational Education and Training in Nigeria such as societal attitude to TVET, government lip service, lack of adequate trained teachers, problems of management of TVET, relevance of curriculum, lack of training facilities and poor state of infrastructures among others were discussed. The paper concluded that TVET is the solution to insecurity and federal ministry of education has stated thirty-four (34) trades that are capable of empowering youths with employable and/or self-employed and becomes employers of labour. The strategies of repositioning Technical Vocational Education and Training for quality employable skills among the youths, such as general re-orientation of the concept of TVET, new capacity training for TVET teachers, funding, provision of quality infrastructures, provision of consumables, model equipment and tools, collaboration with employers and automatic employment of student’s after graduation and so on. Keywords: Repositioning, TVET, Employable Skills and Security Challenges , Nigeria .