The National Board for Technical Education has called for a compulsory 50 per cent inclusion of skill acquisition in the curriculum for secondary school students.
The Executive Secretary, Prof. Idris Bugaje, said this in an interaction with the News Agency of Nigeria on the board’s newly launched top-up programme for Higher National Diploma holders to acquire a Bachelor of Science in their choice course.
Bugaje stressed that enhancing technical education and vocational training for students secondary students would effectively identify talents that could be nurtured into profitable enterprises.
He urged that the country should expose students to skills at their early stage, to foster their development.
“If you go to Germany that operates a dual system, right from basic education, they expose their children to skills and at the secondary school, students spend three days in schools and three days in the industries.
“By the time they are ready for higher education, three-quarters of them go to the polytechnics and less than one quarter only go to the university because they have already been exposed to the training received under the dual system.
