Improving the teaching of vocational technical education to achieve industrial and technological development.

Abstract

The study is designed to determine strategies for improving the teaching of vocational and technical education in Niger state. It is believe through the country and worldwide today that, technology education is the solution to present under industriazation of Africa and hope of millions of unemployed Nigerians. A 20 items questionnaire was used to collect data from 60 technical teachers and 200 students of technical colleges of Niger State. Mean, standard deviation and t-test of independent samples were used to analyse the data. Some of the findings include; inadequate provision of modern facilities for teaching to meet changing needs, teachers should be motivated and inadequate professional qualified teachers in technical colleges. It was recommended among others that; quality technical teachers should be employed, they should be well motivated and modern equipment should be supplied schools in line with technology change.