Enhancing sustainable development in Nigerian Technical and Vocational Education and Training system through effective public private partnership.

Abstract

The situation of Nigerian Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system has been deteriorating for over the last decade, especially with regards to the quality of service delivery and partnership pattern and partnership effectiveness. It has become an issue of grave concern because of the poor quality of graduates being turned out from TVET institutions which have been discriminated against in the international labour market and industries for insufficiency in the required employable skills needed by employers. There is also a prevailing outcry over the prevalence of skill gap among these graduates which makes them unemployable due to high level of deficiency in the needed capabilities necessary for self reliance and effective participation in the world of work. Hence, this paper focuses on creating sustaining partnerships through Public Private Partnership (PPP) for effective Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in Nigeria. It also analyzed the strategic role Public Private Partnership can play in creating and sustaining partnerships in Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Nigeria to enhance sustainable technological development through training and production of quality TVET graduates in both formal and informal sector TVET institutions in Nigeria.