Effective Management of Technical Education: An Option for Accelerated Development in Nigeria.
Abstract
Technical Education offers several opportunities to help developing nations advance economically, technologically and industrially. This paper proffers measures for effective use of these opportunities. A 27-item questionnaire was used to elicit information from technical education and educational management experts selected from 20 Nigerian (federal and state) universities, on the roles technical education plays in achieving national development, factors militating against the effective management of technical education, and on measures that could be adopted to effectively manage technical education in Nigeria. It was found, among others, that technical education fosters creativity and innovations; lack of professional manpower, low morale and poor attitude of management of technical education in Nigeria, are some of the problemsmilitating against management of technical education; and
strategies for enhancing effective management of technical education in Nigeria include private sector participation in funding technical education and the training and retraining of technical education teachers. It was suggested that some aspects of technical education should be made compulsory for all students at all levels of education in Nigeria.
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