TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATION AMIDST INFRASTRUCTURAL INADEQUACY, NEGATIVE PERCEPTION AND SECURITY CHALLENGE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper discussed technical and vocational business education amidst infrastructural inadequacy, negative perception and security challenge in Nigeria. The position of the paper is that effective technical and vocational business education cannot be given without adequate infrastructural facilities and staff required to implement the programme. The programme can only meet the needs of employers if it is given in an appropriate environment. This paper also discussed the problem of misconceptions in technical and vocational business education and expresses the need to provide broad-based, multi-disciplinary, technology and business education that correspond to what is done and what the students are being prepared for. The need to close the enrolment gap and to identify programmes of action for promoting interest in technical and vocational business education so as to reduce the impact of infrastructural inadequacy, negative perception and security challenge on the survival of technical and vocational business education cannot be over emphasized.