Job Creation and Self-Reliance in Technical Vocational Education and Training: A Tool for Sustainable Industrialization in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper was set to examine job creation in technical vocational education and training a tool for sustainable industrialization in Nigeria. The relevance and appropriateness of TVE curricula is for preparing individual for the world of work which must be reviewed on a regular basis to meet up with the current technology development in the world of work. The paper pointed out inadequate infrastructure, issues of technology, teaching students theoretically and government interference as challenges hindering quality and affordable skills required for self-reliance and job creation for sustainable industrialization. It also addressed strategies for self-reliance required for skills acquisition with some recommendations suggested that a combined curricula committee should be set up to x-ray the issues of skills among others to ensure quality and affordable skills using TVET for self-reliance and job creation for sustainable industrialization