School of Science and Technology Education (SSTE)

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    Repositioning Vocational and Technical Education for effective manpower production in Nigeria
    (International Organization of Scientific Research, 2012) Atsumbe, B.N.; Raymond, E.; Igwe, C.O.; Atsumbe, J.A.
    To meet the challenges of technological change that can support economic growth and to guarantee equal access to opportunities and employment, Vocational and Technical Education must be available to a substantially greater proportion of young people and adult alike. In this paper Vocational and Technical Education has been identified as the most reliable veritable vehicle that can be used in preparing skilled manpower for the nation. Major constraints to vocational and technical education such as historical legacy from colonial rule, societal attitudes government lip service to vocational education, lack of adequate teaching man power, problems of management and organization of VTE, relevance of curriculum, poor state of infrastructures and training equipment amongst others. The paper also made a number repositioning strategies for quality manpower production. These includes a general re-orientation of the concept of Vocation; re-organization and management of Vocational education; new capacity building strategy for Vocational teachers, new funding approach, collaboration with employers accreditation and automatic streaming of students among others. Keywords: Repositioning, Vocational and Technical Education, Manpower production
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    Impact of E-learning on employability development of Vocational Technical Education pre-service teachers for national security
    (Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, 2013) Saba T.M.; Igwe, C.O.; Mogaji, J.O.; Mustapha, M.J.
    This paper examined the impact of e-learning on employability development of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) Pre-service Teachers for national security. As employability skills is highly required for one to be a successful VTE Teacher and Technician or technologist. Employability Skills are usually not formally taught as part of the VTE curriculum content. The coming of e-learning as innovation in VTE will provide graduates’ opportunities to acquire these employability skills if the lecturers employed this method in teaching. This paper focused on VTE Teachers Training Programmes in Nigeria, e- learning techniques, employability skill needs of VTE teachers and the impact of e-learning on employability skills development for national security. It has become necessary for VTE Lecturers to employ e-learning as one of the methods of training VTE Teachers. Because of the advent of knowledge economy, e-learning has been one of the high priorities promoted in higher education with the hope of bringing innovations that enhance quality in education. This work has a great impact to pre-service teacher of VTE programme as the knowledge of e-learning can build employability skill which they can apply in teaching after graduation.